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Thread #149360   Message #3488388
Posted By: Jim Carroll
09-Mar-13 - 10:54 AM
Thread Name: BS: Israel condemned by UN
Subject: RE: BS: Israel condemned by UN
A partial list of details of US veto record in support of Israel – 2 years out-of-date, I'm afraid!!!
BTW - these are official records, in this case from the US - anybody wishing to challenge them with figures of their own, please feel free.
Anybody wishing to support Israel's appalling human rights record by comparing it with that of other nations should be prepared to tell us whose record we should compare it with to make it acceptable – Kenneth Kaunda's, Ratco Mladic's, Papa Doc Duvalier's, Augusto Pinochet's, Rwanda's, Greece's under the colonel's ..... Hitler's or Stalin's maybe.
Would be interesting to see if they feel there should be a baseline or a ceiling in excusing war crimes.
Jim Carroll   

US Vetoes of Resolutions Against Israel, 1972-2011.
1   "…condemned Israel's attack against Southern against southern Lebanon and Syria…"
2   "…affirmed the rights of the Palestinian people to self-determination, statehood and equal protections…"
3   "…condemned Israel's air strikes and attacks in southern Lebanon and its murder of innocent civilians…"
4   "…called for self-determination of Palestinian people…"
5   "…deplored Israel's altering of the status of Jerusalem, which is recognized as an international city by most world nations and the United Nations…"
6   "…affirmed the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people…"
7   "…endorsed self-determination for the Palestinian people…"
8   "…demanded Israel's withdrawal from the Golan Heights…"
9   "…condemned Israel's mistreatment of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip and its refusal to abide by the Geneva convention protocols of civilized nations…"
10 "…condemned an Israeli soldier who shot eleven Moslem worshippers at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount near Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem…"
11 "…urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Lebanon…"
12 "…urged sanctions against Israel if it did not withdraw from its invasion of Beirut…"
13 "…urged cutoff of economic aid to Israel if it refused to withdraw from its occupation ofLebanon…"
14 "…condemned continued Israeli settlements in occupied territories in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, denouncing them as an obstacle to peace…"
15 "…deplores Israel's brutal massacre of Arabs in Lebanon and urges its withdrawal…"
16 "…condemned Israeli brutality in southern Lebanon and denounced the Israeli 'Iron Fist' policy of repression…"
17 "…denounced Israel's violation of human rights in the occupied territories…"
18 "…deplored Israel's violence in southern Lebanon…"
19 "…deplored Israel's activities in occupied Arab East Jerusalem that threatened the sanctity of Muslim holy sites…"
20 "…condemned Israel's hijacking of a Libyan passenger airplane…"
21 "…deplored Israel's attacks against Lebanon and its measures and practices against the civilian population of Lebanon…"
22 "…called on Israel to abandon its policies against the Palestinian intifada that violated the rights of occupied Palestinians, to abide by the Fourth Geneva Conventions, and to formalize a leading role for the United Nations in future peace negotiations…"
23 "…urged Israel to accept back deported Palestinians, condemned Israel's shooting of civilians, called on Israel to uphold the Fourth Geneva Convention, and called for a peace settlement under UN auspices…"
24 "…condemned Israel's… incursion into Lebanon…"
25 "…deplored Israel's… commando raids on Lebanon…"
26 "…deplored Israel's repression of the Palestinian intifada and called on Israel to respect the human rights of the Palestinians…"
27 "…deplored Israel's violation of the human rights of the Palestinians…"
28 "…demanded that Israel return property confiscated from Palestinians during a tax protest and allow a fact-finding mission to observe Israel's crackdown on the Palestinian intifada…"
29 "…called for a fact-finding mission on abuses against Palestinians in Israeli-occupied lands…"
30 "…confirmed that the expropriation of land by Israel, the occupying power, in East Jerusalem was invalid, and called upon the Government of Israel to rescind the expropriation orders and refrain from such action in the future."
31 "…called on Israel to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the 1949 Geneva Convention" and to refrain from it's policy of settlement expansion which "alter facts on the ground pre-empting final status negotiations, and have negative implications for the Middle East Peace Process;"
32 "…demanded that Israel immediately cease construction of the Jabal Abu Ghneim settlement in East Jerusalem as well as other Israeli settlement activities in the occupied territories."
33 "… requested an unarmed UN Observer force to be sent to the West Bank to help protect Palestinian civilians."
34 "…requested the sending of a human rights monitoring force to the Occupied Territories and condemned all acts of terror, extra-judiciary killing, excessive use of force and house demolitions. Also expressed it determination to contribute to ending the violence and to prompting dialogue between Israeli and Palestinian sides.
35 "…condemned the killing by the Israeli occupying forces of
several UN employees" and demanded that Israel, complied fully with the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War" and "refrained from the excessive and disproportionate use of force in the Occupied Palestinian Territory;"
36 "…demanded that Israel ceased threats to deport or harm Yasser Arafat, the elected President of the Palestinian Authority;"
37 "…decides that the construction by Israel, the occupying Power, of a wall in the Occupied Territories departing from the armistice line of 1949 is illegal under relevant provisions of international law and must be ceased and reversed;"
38 "…condemned Israel for the extra-judicial executions that killed Sheikh Ahmed Yassin along with six other Palestinians outside a mosque in Gaza City and calls for a complete cessation of extra-judicial executions by Israel"
39 "…condemned the military incursion into Gaza and demanded the immediate cessation of all military operations in the area of Northern Gaza and the withdrawal of the Israeli occupying forces from that area;
40 "…condemned all acts of violence, terror and destruction during the Gaza conflict including rocket attacks by Hamas into Israel and the military assault being carried out by Israel."
41 "…called upon the Palestinian Authority to take immediate and sustained action to bring an end to violence, including the firing of rockets on Israeli territory. Called upon Israel to immediately cease its military operations within Gaza and to immediately withdraw its forces to to positions prior to 28 June 2006, and expressed grave concern about the dire humanitarian situation of the Palestinian people."
declared Israeli settlements in Palestinian territories were illegal and a "major obstacle to the achievement of a just, lasting and comprehensive peace".