{"id":2018,"date":"2007-05-25T08:15:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2007-05-25T08:18:26","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T13:18:26","slug":"un-arbitrator-of-conflicts-or-underpaid-us-enforcer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"UN: Arbitrator of conflicts or underpaid US enforcer?"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to Mark Leon Goldberg: “The costs of UN peacekeeping missions across the globe have ballooned — and, along with them, so have America’s arrears.<\/a>” (Registration required)<\/p>\n

Palestinian envoy: UN must call for immediate cease-fire in Gaza
\nBy Haaretz Service and News Agencies<\/strong><\/p>\n

The UN Security Council should shoulder its responsibilities and call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, as well as consider sending international observers to monitor it, the Palestinian UN observer said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Riyad Mansour said it is time for the UN’s most powerful body, which has been paralyzed on Palestinian-Israeli issues, to help restore peace and stop escalating attacks and arrests by Israel.<\/p>\n

Our desire is to see that the council use it power …. to call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, to spread to the West Bank, and maybe to entertain the idea of observers because we are sick and tired of this cycle of who is breaking the cease-fire, he said. If you have observers … then we will know for sure who is really breaking the cease-fire, he added.<\/p>\n

[Read the report<\/a>]<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ali Abunimah: Letter to Javier Solana<\/strong><\/p>\n


\n To His Excellency Mr. Javier Solana
\nHigh Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy,
\nSecretary-General of the Council of the European Union
\nBrussels, Belgium<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sent via email to:
\npress.office@consilium.eu.int<\/a>
\npresse.cabinet@consilium.eu.int<\/a><\/p>\n

Dear Mr. Solana,<\/p>\n

You will undoubtedly have heard the news that Israeli occupation forces have carried out 33 kidnappings today of democratically-elected Palestinian officials, including lawmakers, mayors and the minister of education in the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n

All of the kidnap victims are reported to be affiliated with Hamas, the movement which won the elections held in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip in January 2006.<\/p>\n

I believe these latest kidnappings have taken place in part because of your previous silence and inaction when Israel carried out similar kidnappings shortly after the elections. The total impunity that Israel and its officials enjoy when they violate the Fourth Geneva Conventions, UN Security Council Resolutions, the Universal Declarations of Human Rights, and agreements with the European Union, can only further encourage this rogue state to violate the rights of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n

At the same time, disturbing news reports indicate that collaborator militias armed and financed by the United States, and aided and abetted by Israel and the European Union are continuing to infiltrate into the occupied territories. These militias, led by Muhammad Dahlan, sparked the recent bloodshed in the Gaza Strip, and are acting as quisling forces against the Palestinian people under occupation. They play a similar role to the Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s.<\/p>\n

I am writing to demand that the European Union take the following actions:<\/p>\n

(1) Invoke Article 2 of the EU-Israel Association agreement to suspend all bilateral aid and agreements with Israel until all political prisoners and hostages are released.<\/p>\n

(2) In particular, to observe the Palestinian civil society call for boycott of Israeli academic institutions at least until such time as all restrictions on Palestinian educational institutions are lifted by the occupation forces and the kidnapped education minister Mr. Nasser al-Sha’er is freed by the rogue forces who have taken him hostage.<\/p>\n

(3) Cease all EU aid and support for collaborator militias and quisling forces.<\/p>\n

Yours sincerely,
\nAli Abunimah<\/strong><\/p>\n

Co-founder, The Electronic Intifada<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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