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Old 17th Jul 2006, 02:40
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Blacksheep
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...yet they expect the..
Nobody, least of all any UN delegates, expects anyone to comply with a UN resolution. UN resolutions are no more than feel-good expressions of indignation.

Would Britain leave the Falklands (aka Los Malvinas) if there was a UN resolution? Of course not. If sovereignty over the islands was in question previously, that's no longer the case.

Did the USA - or more correctly "The Coalition" - take any notice of the UN over Iraq? Of course not. "Might is Right" and one would expect military aircrew to be only too well aware of that, for power projection is what they're all about. Its the way the world works; it always was so and it always will be.

Its long past the time for the Palestinians to recognize the reality on the ground. Israel exists. Every time there's a war, the Palestinians take a beating and Israel gets a bit more land.

While I sympathise with the plight of the Palestinians, their own leadership has dragged them into this mire. Since the 1920s Palestinian leaders have sold their people down the river for their own personal profit. Indeed, without their collaboration the State of Israel could never have come to pass.

Time to stop all the stupid pinpricks of home made rockets and suicide bombs, face the reality and talk. Properly. Self flagellation loses its impact after forty years.
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