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February 28th, 2008

UN Calls Qassams “Terrorism” During Israel-Bashing Speech

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Elder of Ziyon

Yesterday, UN envoy Robert Serry gave a report to the UN Security Council. As can be expected, most of the report was more of the same - blaming Israel for how it is dealing with Gaza, blaming settlements for creating a humanitarian crisis (not quite sure how that works), claiming that Israel has not removed any outposts (um, remember Amona? Neve Daniel North? Tapuach West?) and similar naive statements.

As usual, he has no real idea about what Israel should do, only what it should not do:

A different and more positive strategy for Gaza was a humanitarian, security and strategic imperative, for Israel, Egypt and the Palestinian Authority.

Any idea what this strategy should be? Well, nothing that can possibly involve the remotest possibility of hurting civilians, of course, so possibly he is calling for Israel to move from “condemning” Qassam attacks into “deploring” them. Perhaps providing them with more potassium nitrate so they can fertilize their crops.

Buried in his speech, however, is something that I have never seen the UN say before:

His visit to Sderot, which had been the target of over 4,300 rockets since 2004, had brought out the physical and psychological damage to the population. Those crude rockets were aimed at hurting civilians and clearly constituted terrorism. Their continued firing was completely unacceptable and must be halted unconditionally.

The “T word” is hardly used even in the Western media to describe Qassams, with sickening words like “resistance” used far more often. The fact that the reliably anti-Israel UN classifies rocket attacks as terrorism needs to be publicized and the Arab terrorists and their friends need to be forced to respond, so that the world can see their hypocrisy.

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2 Responses to “UN Calls Qassams “Terrorism” During Israel-Bashing Speech”

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    Jeffrey Nihart Says:
    February 29th, 2008 at 6:58 am

    PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday said that he does not rule out returning to the path of armed “resistance” against Israel and took pride in the fact that he had been the first to fire on Israel and that his organization had trained Hizbullah.

    It is time for Israel to put on the “big boy pants” and leave the UN.
    Israel needs the UN like it needs more Qassam rockets killing Israeli civilians.
    Israel needs the UN like the French need more Hitler invasions.
    Israel needs the UN like the Russians need another Stalin.

    Jeffrey Nihart

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