UN not ready to shut up or put up regarding Israel's wall
Wednesday, July 21, 2004 at 5:34PM "Remove Wall, Israel Is Told By the U.N.," by Warren Hoge, New York Times, 21 July, p. A10.
UN is ready and willing to condemn the wall, but isn't willing to do much of anything to secure Israel. The UN is more than happy to internationalize the situation politically, but not security-wise.
Thus left to its own defense, Israel logically puts up the wall and saysóin effectóto the world: "If you're so hot to do something about Palestine, then be our guests!"
The UN will never provide security to Israel, and so Israel must forcibly internationalize the security situation by building the wall and letting the UN deal with the consequences.
After the lopsided vote condemning the wall, Israel's UN ambassador said, "Thank God that the fate of Israel and of the Jewish people is not decided in this hall."
Absolutely.
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