I'm sure that the caption will make sense to some of this blog's readers. With the dissent in the Middle East from Tripoli to Bahrain, Egypt and Yemen, the Palestinians are pushing for the United Nations to "give the back" a large portion of the State of Israel. The New York Times weighed in on this and this article is worth reading (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/03/world/middleeast/03mideast.html?_r=2&hp)
Despite the present trend for the US to be in league with the United Nations, I feel that we are not well served by it in the long run. We use it's weak mandates as the cause (in and of itself) for our ventures onto foreign soil. While I don't necessarily oppose the US doing that, I find that a UN Resolution is not the vehicle that we should be using.
There seems to be growing support for Israel to return land to "Palestine".
(NYT - cited above) Germany, France and Britain say negotiations should be based on the 1967 lines with equivalent land swaps, exactly what the Netanyahu government rejects because it says it predetermines the outcome.
“Does the world think it is going to force Israel to declare the 1967 lines and giving up Jerusalem as a basis for negotiation?” asked a top Israeli official who spoke on condition of anonymity. “That will never happen.”
While the Obama administration has referred in the past to the 1967 lines as a basis for talks, it has not decided whether to back the European Union, the United Nations and Russia — the other members of the so-called quartet — in declaring them the starting point, diplomats said. The quartet meets on April 15 in Berlin.
Israel, which has settled hundreds of thousands of Jews inside the West Bank and East Jerusalem, acknowledges that it will have to withdraw from much of the land it now occupies there. But it hopes to hold onto the largest settlement blocs and much of East Jerusalem as well as the border to the east with Jordan and does not want to enter into talks with the other side’s position as the starting point.Will Israel give up control of Jerusalem to the Hamas, the government of the Palestinians, if the UN tells them to?
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The UN has been stacked with anti-Israel muslim countries for decades. The UN constantly passes anti-Israel resolutions. Israel knows that while our Obama admin is against Israel the American people stand firm with Israel.
Muslims don't want land for peace. That is a lie. They want Israel destroyed. There is no reason for Israel to give up land at this point, and evey reason not to.
Opus - Will the US support the UN's resolution this time and back Hamas IF there are riots in sovereign Israel and the Israeli's forcefully put them down?
I see it coming as the Palestinians are emboldened by rioting elsewhere in the Arab world.
Israel must act firmly. They are alone in a schoolyard full of bullies. I would not blame them for that. But the muslim countries will blame them every time they lift a finger in their defense. What else is new.
Will Israel give up? No. Will they give up if obama says "Pretty please?" No. Can they depend on the United States? No, nobody can. Not now.
WoFat, the US has turned from reliable friend to twisted sister with this administration.
This administration's weak foreign policy, anti-Israel sentiments, and pro-UN leanings is yet another reason to get rid of Obama.
Or do we give in to the lies perpetrated over the years that Israel is the aggressor state?
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