The head of the United Nations children's agency says 300 children have been killed during Israel's campaign in the Gaza Strip.
UNICEF director, Ann Venemen, says more than 1,500 other children have been wounded, casualties she calls "tragic" and "unacceptable."
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An Open Letter of UNICEF director Ann Veneman.
OK, UNICEF director Veneman: any attempt at convincing the Israelis that pre-emptive Palestinian infanticide is an abomination on moral grounds will fail, because a country which gives its military orders to kill children and non-combatants has no moral center at all.
So instead of whining, and moaning about these losses being "tragic" and "unacceptable", which are falling on ears deafened by a darkly heady mix of hubris and mythology, here are the steps which you and Dr. Ban Ki-Moon must take immediately.
1. In the General Assembly of the UN (where the US has no veto power) there must be an overwhelming vote toward the expulsion of Israel as a member, and to have the credentials of its ambassador revoked.
2. All financial and military aid from all NATO countries must stop, immediately, until there is a viable Palestine with clearly delineated borders.
Dr. Veneman, I submit to you that these actions just might just possibly get Israel's attention.
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1 comment:
Here's what you might have considered before writing this:
a)The UN General Assembly is a legislative body where it is countries, not international civil servants, who vote. Neither Ban Ki Moon nor Ann Veneman have any control over it at all. And -- guess what -- it is meeting at the moment in emergency session on the Middle East.
b) NATO has nothing to do with the UN system at all. It has violated UN resolutions and ignored UN requests many times over the last 20 years.
Talk about wasting breath!!! What UN officials can do, is raise the temperature for those violating international law and ethics, and this is what they have done.... For either of the others, the best voices to be raised would be those of voters to their governments.... not officials who would be told in no uncertain terms to shut up.
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