Palestinians plan 'day of rage' protests after US vetoes resolution on Israeli settlements
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[I]An Israeli settlement in the West Bank: The US vetoed a UN security council resolution condemning settlements. Photograph: Nati Shohat/EPA
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[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/20/palestinians-day-rage-us-veto[/URL]
[quote=The Guardian]
Palestinians are planning a "day of rage" on Friday in response to the US wielding its veto against a UN security council resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
The US decision to use its veto has sparked a furious reaction in the West Bank and Gaza.
Anti-US rallies took place in the West Bank towns of Bethlehem, Tulkarem and Jenin this weekend after the [highlight]14-1 vote on the resolution, in which the US stood alone against the rest of the security council, including Britain, Germany and France. It voted in contradiction of its own policy.[/highlight]
In Gaza, [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/hamas"]Hamas[/URL] described the US position as outrageous and said Washington was "completely biased" towards [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/israel"]Israel[/URL].
Ibrahim Sarsour, an Israeli-Arab member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, said it was time to tell the US president, [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/barack-obama"]Barack Obama[/URL], to "go to hell".
"Obama cannot be trusted," he wrote in an open letter to the Palestinian president, [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/mahmoud-abbas"]Mahmoud Abbas[/URL]. "We knew his promises were lies. The time has come to spit in the face of the Americans."
The Egyptian foreign ministry said the US veto would [B]"[/B]lead to more damage of the [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/usa"]United States[/URL]' credibility on the Arab side as a mediator in peace efforts".
[B]The use of the veto for the first time under Obama will strengthen perceptions in the Arab world that for the US, protection of its ally Israel overrides its desire for a just outcome for Palestinians in the decades-old conflict.[/B]
The move is likely to impede US efforts to persuade the parties to return to peace negotiations, which stalled in September over the issue of settlement expansion.
With protests raging across the [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/middleeast"]Middle East[/URL] against repression, corruption, food prices and dismal economic prospects, Washington is acutely aware that distrust of the US is widespread in the region.
The Israeli prime minister, Binyamin Netanyhu, said his country "deeply appreciated" the US use of its veto.
However, some Israeli commentators warned that the vote served to reinforce Israel's international isolation and said Washington would expect a payback from its ally. They suggested the US would be unwilling to use its veto in similar circumstances again.
The opposition leader, Tzipi Livni, said Israel was "now in political collapse".
[B]"We now find that Germany, Britain and France – all friends of Israel who want to help it defend itself – voted against the positions of Israel, and the US is being pushed into a corner and finds itself with Israel against the world," she said.[/B]
The vote, on Friday night, followed frantic diplomatic efforts to prevent the tabling of the resolution, which was carefully worded to reflect official US policy on settlements.
Obama spoke to Abbas on the phone for 50 minutes on Thursday, offering a package of inducements, including public statements, to withdraw the resolution.
According to the Palestinian press, Obama also suggested US aid to the Palestinian Authority could be halted if the resolution went ahead.
The US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, made a further telephone call to Abbas on Friday to put pressure on him to abandon the resolution.
However, the Palestinian president – aware of the volatile mood in the region and the backlash he would face if he acceded to Obama's demands – refused to withdraw. One Palestinian official told Reuters that "people would take to the streets and topple the president" if he backed down.
After the vote, the US ambassador to the UN, Susan Rice, told the security council that Washington agreed with "our fellow council members, and indeed with the wider world, about the folly and illegitimacy of continued Israel settlement activity".
But she added: "We think it unwise for this council to attempt to resolve the core issues that divide Israelis and Palestinians."
Underlying the growing gap between the US and Europe on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, [B]
Britain, France and Germany issued a joint statement saying settlement construction was against international law.[/B]
The veto served to unite the political rivals Hamas and [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fatah"]Fatah[/URL] in condemnation. Palestinian leaders are considering whether to take a resolution on Israel's settlement policies to the UN general assembly.[/quote]It has finally spread.
:doh:
lol theymad
The Israelis have no real justified reason to be there other than their blind belief that it's a promised land. That's fucking retarded.
Jesus Christ the world is falling apart at the seams.
I hate Israel.
IDF chicks are smoking hot
[QUOTE=Melnek;28169131]The Israelis have no real justified reason to be there other than their blind belief that it's a promised land. That's fucking retarded.[/QUOTE]
Those whole of Israel has no right to exist you mean or just Israel imposing this stuff on Gaza and the West Bank?
[QUOTE=Moose;28169282]IDF chicks are smoking hot[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Thom12255;28169358]Those whole of Israel has no right to exist you mean or just Israel imposing this stuff on Gaza and the West Bank?[/QUOTE]
Im fine with them having a country of their own even though the entire reason they're there in the first place is half assed to shit and is just out of pity, but my main complaint is their treatment to Palestinians.
Ashamed to be an American :(
our govt. is an underling for Israel.
[QUOTE=Sporkfire;28169576]Ashamed to be an American :(
our govt. is an underling for Israel.[/QUOTE]
He sorta has his hands tied behind his back though.
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/30/us-israel-lobby-pressure-obama[/URL]
AIPAC ensures the congress is pro-Israel and targets members of Congress who criticize the Jewish state. They also sent a letter to Obama, signed by the congress to refrain from public criticism of Israel (Source: article) Unfortunately, the article mentions that AIPAC's impact will weaken since Obama has shown disagreement in the settlement construction etc. (article published March 2010) but the veto confirms the opposite
Honestly, a 14-1 vote should pass regardless of what superpower vetoed. This is fucking bullshit.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;28169707]He sorta has his hands tied behind his back though.
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/30/us-israel-lobby-pressure-obama[/URL]
[B]AIPAC ensures the congress is pro-Israel and targets members of Congress who criticize the Jewish state. They also sent a letter to Obama, signed by the congress to refrain from public criticism of Israel [/B](Source: article) Unfortunately, the article mentions that AIPAC's impact will weaken since Obama has shown disagreement in the settlement construction etc. (article published March 2010) but the veto confirms the opposite[/QUOTE]
I don't really see how the fuck that can be possibly legal. Then again I guess it depends on what "targets" means.
Friday? Why not tomorrow?
[QUOTE=smurfy;28171786]Friday? Why not tomorrow?[/QUOTE]
friday is the islamic holy day.
Crybabies
And then Israel takes this opportunity to have a Day of Slaughter.
[QUOTE=Starpluck;28169707]He sorta has his hands tied behind his back though.
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/30/us-israel-lobby-pressure-obama[/URL]
AIPAC ensures the congress is pro-Israel and targets members of Congress who criticize the Jewish state. They also sent a letter to Obama, signed by the congress to refrain from public criticism of Israel (Source: article) Unfortunately, the article mentions that AIPAC's impact will weaken since Obama has shown disagreement in the settlement construction etc. (article published March 2010) but the veto confirms the opposite[/QUOTE]
They're a lobby group, what do you expect? There's no public condemnation or financial institutions, defence contractors, the RIAA, any of them. Lobbying in general is fucking retarded and Israel just uses the system that is already in place.
[QUOTE=Micr0;28169846]Honestly, a 14-1 vote should pass regardless of what superpower vetoed. This is fucking bullshit.[/QUOTE]
This is why I support that bill that withdraws the US from the UN :v:
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28178801]This is why I support that bill that withdraws the US from the UN :v:[/QUOTE]
ha
[editline]20th February 2011[/editline]
So you want the U.N. to be Russia and China's stomping ground?
[QUOTE=Explosions;28178897]ha
[editline]20th February 2011[/editline]
So you want the U.N. to be Russia and China's stomping ground?[/QUOTE]
The :v: means not to take it seriously
Didn't they already have a day of rage, or was that somewhere else?
This isn't going to end well in the SLIGHTEST. It's an excuse for Israel to retaliate to anything that may happen, and have the excuse that they were "acting in self defense".
[QUOTE=Zeke129;28179074]The :v: means not to take it seriously[/QUOTE]
Sorry
I'm more accustomed to :downs:
[QUOTE=Starpluck;28168876]It has finally spread.[/QUOTE]
Oh, also in response to this, the West Bank did have some protests of their own.
[url]http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/palestinian-security-suppressing-west-bank-fervor-over-egypt-protests-1.341722[/url]
[quote]We are still preoccupied with demonstrations and their dispersal in this part of the world. After the immediate shock and anger died down last Wednesday, however, one could not help but notice the European, mainly French, scent that wafted from Al-Manara Square in Ramallah where the Palestinian Authority once again suppressed a demonstration of support for the Egyptian people that evening. A few hours earlier, in the same streets, supporters of Fatah had held an undisturbed demonstration in support of the Egyptian government and President Hosni Mubarak.
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The depressing pictures from Tahrir Square in Cairo are what got these young people out of their homes, even though they knew the Palestinian Authority had explicitly forbidden any show of support for the uprising in Egypt.
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According to Human Rights Watch, a policeman said there were police detectives on the scene as well as officers from the Palestinian preventive security force and the general intelligence service - all of them plainclothesmen. Whatever their identity might have been, Human Rights Watch said the dispersal of the demonstrators involved beating and kicking. Journalists who took pictures were dragged away. (Haaretz was told by SPF sources that they had no information about any special occurence that took place on Wednesday ).[/quote]
But it all worked out ok.
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/14/AR2011021406406.html[/url]
[quote]JERUSALEM - The Palestinian Authority cabinet in the West Bank resigned Monday after ministerial reshuffles in Tunisia and Egypt that failed to quell public discontent or prevent the ouster of those countries' presidents.
Shortly after the cabinet convened Monday morning and decided to collectively resign, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Salam Fayyad submitted the resignations to President Mahmoud Abbas, who immediately reappointed Fayyad premier and directed him to form a new cabinet.
The West Bank has seen strong economic growth accompanied by new investment in recent months. But some Palestinians have been unhappy about the lack of progress on the peace process with Israel or with steps Abbas has taken to curtail criticism of his leadership. Palestinian police prevented some protests that were meant to show solidarity with pro-democracy demonstrators in Egypt. [/quote]
Kinda.
You mean they [b]don't[/b] hate us for our freedom and sports cars?
Well I'll be
[QUOTE=Starpluck;28169707]He sorta has his hands tied behind his back though.
[URL]http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/30/us-israel-lobby-pressure-obama[/URL]
AIPAC ensures the congress is pro-Israel and targets members of Congress who criticize the Jewish state. They also sent a letter to Obama, signed by the congress to refrain from public criticism of Israel (Source: article) Unfortunately, the article mentions that AIPAC's impact will weaken since Obama has shown disagreement in the settlement construction etc. (article published March 2010) but the veto confirms the opposite[/QUOTE]
The veto doesn't confirm the opposite. The congress may have voted for it this time, but they were silent in their reasoning. Time'll show.
Besides, what's wrong with a pro-Israeli lobby group? There's nothing illegal about it, given the amount of lobby groups for all other groups.
ITT: Muslim apologists wanting the destruction of Israel.
Nothing new here.
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