A reeking resolution.

[Bernie Gunther]

Meanwhile it sounds like some effort is being made to come up with a workable resolution.

The French UN ambassador said he now expected a resolution to be drawn up and passed before the weekend. But a vote has already been delayed from the start of the week and there was growing international impatience.

Russia called for the UN Security Council to pass a resolution calling for an emergency "humanitarian ceasefire" if a broader resolution including elements for a long term settlement cannot be agreed.

Russia's UN envoy Vitaly Churkin said his country could not support support a resolution on the conflict that is opposed by Lebanon.

For Russia, "a draft that is useless to the Lebanese side must not be adopted since it will only lead to the continuation of the conflict," Churkin told Russian television.

source

This still leaves open the question of why at least a week, and probably more, was wasted with an obviously unworkable resolution.

 

[moono]

This still leaves open the question of why at least a week, and probably more, was wasted with an obviously unworkable resolution.

Ah. It seems that the infallible Zionist war machine was expected to have killed everything in sight by now and the reeking Resolution would be acceptable to the defeated. Lol.

 

[Bernie Gunther]

Well, I wonder about that.

I think it was already pretty clear by last Saturday that the Israelis weren't having things their own way at all against Hezbollah.

 

[moono]

Perhaps they couldn't stop the giant cogs once they were in motion.

Has anybody started to blame the 'arabs' for blocking the 'ceasefire' yet ?

 

[TAE]

Can't remember if it was Sky or BBC, but there was something along the lines of "Lebanese objections delay UN resolution" on the screen.

 

[revol68]

The resolution was obviously meant to put the ball in the Lebanese's court so they look like the "rejectionists", a trick that got played on the PLo many times in the past. the Lebanese moving of troops to the south is merely a tokenist gesture to push the ball back onto Israel, because there is no hope in hell the Lebanese army will take on Hezbullah, especially not now when hezbullah is enjoyig the support of nearly 80% of Christians and Druz's.

 

[lostexpectation]

interesting info

According to the UN, 22,000 Lebanese are still - dead or alive - in the 38 most southern villages, out of an original population of 913,000. In Mays al-Jabal, for example, 400 civilians are believed to have stayed out of 10,000, though no one knows their fate. The Lebanese death toll - including the conservative figure for Houla - is 932, almost all civilians, although it may well have reached more than 1,000. There are 3,293 wounded.

I thought the would have been a lot more left, displaced not dead atleast.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/fisk/article1217570.ece

Fisk pores scorn on the lebanese pm crocodile tears, yet he doesn't really go further in explaining that...

 

[nino_savatte]

hezbullah is not a terrorist organisation, any more than the IDF is.

I don't often agree with you but on this occasion, I do. Hizb'allah is only described as a terrorist organisation by a handful of nations: the US, Israel and the UK.

 

[sleaterkinney]

"How man Lebanese will kill before I fell better." I do not relish the thought of taking another's life. to the contrary. I think that it is noble act to risk one's life in defense of one's homeland...and if taking an enemie's life is made necessary than I accept the responsibility but I have never enjoyed it or felt it gratifying.

Then you must also accept the right of the various factions to drive out the Israelis off land which they have occupied and settled, no?.

 

[sleaterkinney]

Does anyone else think this resolution was just a smokescreen by the US to give the Israelis more time?. They has no intention of getting it passed.

 

[ZAMB]

Does anyone else think this resolution was just a smokescreen by the US to give the Israelis more time?. They has no intention of getting it passed.

Definitely - they knew damn well that Lebanon would not agree to it. That's why Lebanon wasn't consulted when it was being written, although Olmert was. How can you expect to get a peace agreement if you don't consult all parties?

 

[moono]

How can you expect to get a peace agreement if you don't consult all parties?

Well, you can pretend to consult all parties, like they did at Camp David. Lol.