Editor's Note: Stewart Patrick is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Program on International Institutions and Global Governance at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the author of Weak Links: Fragile States, Global Threats, and International Security.
By Stewart Patrick - Special to CNN
This Wednesday, world leaders gather in Manhattan for the opening session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). As always, the most anticipated moment will be when the U.S. President steps to the podium. With little doubt, Barack Obama’s third annual UNGA speech will also be his most challenging.
In September 2009, the president had it easy. After eight years of fractious U.S.-UN relations under George W. Bush, UN member states yearned for a new start. Promising a “new era of engagement,” Obama had his audience at hello. His 2010 speech was also straightforward. It celebrated the fruits of enhanced cooperation on terrorism, financial instability, and other global problems, while imploring the UN to live up to its mandate to promote human rights, global development, and collective security.
This week the President is in the hot seat, confronting Palestinian demands for statehood and a rising tide of anti-UN sentiment in the U.S. Congress. By pushing a UN Security Council vote on statehood—supported by a supermajority of UN member states—the Palestinian Authority (PA) has put Washington on the defensive. The United States will surely veto the resolution, which it considers a threat to Israel and a distraction from the peace process. But doing so will be excruciatingly awkward. Just last year, the president told the world body that he looked forward to the day Palestine would take its seat as a full UN member. By casting its veto,Washington will isolate itself from European allies, to say nothing of the UN’s broader membership, and raise doubts about whether it can ever be an honest broker in the Middle East.
The United States has worked hard to try to head off this diplomatic “train wreck.” In past weeks, it has sought to hold off the PA by reenergizing the peace process through the Middle East “Quartet” (the United States,European Union,Russia and the UN Secretariat). More recently, European diplomats have explored whether the PA might be willing to forgo the UNSC route and instead pursue a less confrontational UNGA resolution. This would enhancePalestine’s UN representation to “observer” status, allowing the PA to seek representation on multiple UN bodies, committees, agencies, and programs. The United States would be free to vote against the motion, but the diplomatic fallout would be far less than a UNSC veto.
Still, U.S.(and of course Israeli) officials worry that Palestinians would exploit these settings to delegitimize and attack Israel in multiple forums, such as the UN Human Rights Council. Most worrisome is the very real possibility that the PA will use their elevated status to seek prosecution of Israeli officials or soldiers by the International Criminal Court. Meanwhile, members of congress from both parties have warned that any of Palestine move toward statehood prior to a final peace agreement will result in an abrupt end to U.S. financial support for the PA—and reprisals against UN agencies that afford the PA elevated status.
Meanwhile, Obama confronts a rebellion against the United Nations on Capitol Hill, making international observers wonder whether the brief U.S.-UN honeymoon is over. Anti-UN sentiments are strongest in the Tea Party flavored, GOP-controlled House. Florida Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, has introduced draconian legislation to curtail UN funding that will bring a smile to the shade of Jesse Helms. The most egregious provision of this bill—the United Nations Transparency, Accountability, and Reform Act of 2011—would slash by 50% America’s legally binding assessed contributions to the UN’s regular and peacekeeping budgets—unless the United Nations shifts to an entirely voluntary funding system.
Such a shift to a la carte UN budgeting—with different countries “cherry picking” those items they wish to fund—would be an invitation to chaos. It would encourage other countries to follow theU.S. irresponsible lead, crippling the UN’s ability to provide global public goods on which the United States and other countries depend—from peace operations to global health surveillance to counterterrorism cooperation. More generally, the bill if it became law would return U.S.-UN relations to the protracted arrears crisis of the 1990s, whenU.S. unwillingness to pay its dues poisoned the atmosphere at the United Nations and undercutAmerica’s image as an enlightened global leader.
The President thus faces a daunting two-fold challenge on Wednesday morning when he addresses the UN General Assembly. First, he must persuade a skeptical General Assembly that the United States remains committed to the goal of a Palestinian state, but believes that the route to that objective must be final status negotiations in which the Palestinians acceptIsrael’s right to exist within secure borders. The President should caution Palestinians against using enhanced UN status to pursue Israel in the ICC, while giving them hope that a rejuvenated “peace process” can actually get somewhere.
Second, the President must make it clear to both UN member states that the United States is no fair-weather partner with the United Nations—and that the enormous strides his administration has made to reengage the world body over the past three years will not be derailed by misguided legislative activism in Congress. He needs to frame this message in a way that resonates with the American people, too. He can remind his countrymen of the multiple ways the United States benefits from the United Nations every day: how more than 100,000 blue helmets are keeping the peace around the world; how WHO scientists are monitoring the globe for the next outbreak of a global pandemic; how U.S. leadership has helped make the Human Rights Council begin to hold abusers to account; and how at a time of U.S. fiscal crisis, the UN remains a great deal for U.S. taxpayers—leveraging a dollar of effort for every quarter the United States spends.
A short time ago, President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress was widely regarded as his last opportunity to shore-up confidence in his administration’s ability to help weather the Great Recession and create jobs. This week, he faces a starkly similar moment in reassuring a troubled ally, while also defending a mutually-reinforcing U.S-UN relationship. Good luck, Mr. President.
The views expressed in this article are solely those of Stewart Patrick.
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It all about Mind-set. Through 2011, peoples Ego and their demands vary in different Regions.
Psychologists and Psychiatrists are expected to learn and to profit more.
Regimes change, Mentality
Another memorable moment brought to you by an inept US President.
He thinks he can say what feels good at the moment without thinking of the far reaching consequences.
I think it is safe to say he acts stupidly.
you guys don't know a good thing [OBAMA] when you have one, the man is trying harder than you would like too admit!!
Hate him or like,the guy is smart upstairs.Wait & see how he is going to convince you & you smile at him at the end of the day.
Sorry to disappoint you but what the UN does and what other countries do is not in the control of any US president – including President Obama. In this case we should be voting in favor of the Palestine State – but our Israel lobby seems to own large parts of the US politic – even though most Americans are not in favor of it.
the unbreakable bond which ties Israel and USA is the similarity of nation building, i.e. kill the natives, grab the land and move the leftover into reservations, but alas Palestinians are no Red Indians
this stance of US is going to result in doom for both Israel and USA, they already top the list of most hated nations.
No more stupidly than the Republican and Tea Party meatheads!
Obama is doing more than any President in recent history. Why is it so hard to just accept the fact? If half the racist, that sit in politics (i.e. Republicans & Tea Party+ Co.) would keep their mouths shut. We would be better off. Everyone wants to say something but no one wants to do anything! Say what you mean, mean what you say!!!!
Keep up the good work Mr. President!!!
Whether you like it or not, the Tea Party got voted to office by the people. They are the will of the people. So stop the slandering and accept it as what it is.
It comes down to the fact that the US position over the past 30 years is self contradictory and up to now we have been trying to have it both ways. Being 100% dedicated to Israel yet pretending to be a neutral third party in their negotiations with the Arab world. Which wouldn't be so bad but Israel has not held up its end of the bargain by playing nice.
I think you are the stupid one, here!
I think it's safe to say *you* act stupidly.
Thank God you are in no position of leadership.
President Obama is a remarkable leader. Relations with nations around the world is extremely difficult and delicate. It takes intelligence and cultural understanding and sensitivity you have no understanding of to keep a peaceful balance.
President Obama just gave a brilliant speech. He left open the right for Palestine to have statehood but focused more on peace between Israel and Palestine first to make it all possible.
He also reassured the world we are working on our economy and tried to show confidence America will recover. Of course that depends on how stupid and obtructionist Republicans plan to stay. They are so full of hate, lies, racism, and self-serving arrogance they refuse to do what is right for AMERICA and the PEOPLE – you know the oath they took to SERVE the PEOPLE. Republicans have betrayed America, betrayed the PEOPLE, and we need to get rid of these corporate-bought traitors out of every local, state, and national seat so America can recover. President Obama has real solutions, economically-sound solutions that economists everywhere support as the only way left to save our nation. Solutins that even businesses support and the National Chamber of Commerce supports. So why are Republicans still telling LIES and not acting immediately to help the struggling American PEOPLE????
Republicans are extremists who care NOTHING about the American PEOPLE, nothing about JOBS, nothing about Economic Recovery, nothing about getting out of the fraudulent Bush wars because their corporate buddies are making billions in defense contracts with the wars. They care more about enriching corporations than the lives of our soldiers.
Republicans are anti-America. anti-People, and they ALL need to be removed from office in 2012. They are not leaders. They are just bought lobbyists for greedy corrupt corporations. We need PEOPLE-focused leaders and the only Party WORKING for the PEOPLE are the DEMOCRATS.
Goodbye GOP and your lunatic candidates.
We need to get our own house in order before we tell other people how to live in theirs.
Everybody must understand that the meaning of return to bilateral negotiations between the Palestinians and Israelis.
Without clear reference. And stop settlements in the Palestinian territories.
A waste of time until the completion of the construction of settlements in the entire Palestinian land. And complete the tightening pressure on the Palestinians and all the means of occupation. To leave Palestine
Rep Illeana Rothstein is a TERRORIST PLAIN AND SIMPLE and Religious extremist Jewish nut that wants to rule the world with Jewish supremacy throughout all the countries until they kneel to Israel, Illean Rothstein is nothing more than a gangsters last piece of you know what, she doesnt matter and i wouldnt even spit on her if i could because i believe she does not deserve that much respect, she is anti american and does whatever she can to ruin Americas reputation, she should be hung for treason
So you offer a free gift, and unlimited support for al Qaeda and its ideology and its followers. By your rejection of the Palestinian right to obtain a state recognized by the United Nations
2008 until now, the Mind bugling Era.
According to author, Obama wants to make his fellow Americans aware of how the U.S. benefits from its involvement at the U.N. such as "how U.S. leadership has helped make the Human Rights Council begin to hold abusers to account;"
Wouldn't it be contradictory if Obama "should caution Palestinians against using enhanced UN status to pursue Israel in the ICC"?
It seems as though, despite John Bolton's absence, his odour is still felt at the U.N.! Susan Rice on the contrary has a mesmerising fragrance.
why should they attack israel in the ICC most human rights violations in the west bank and gaza are made by hamas and other terrorist organizations they just blame Israel for all their problems because its now illegal for a country to defend its own citizens
I am not Jewish, but I had a lot more sympathy for Israel before I visited the country. To put it plainly, what i saw and experienced was akin to apartheid conditions for Palestinians. I was appalled that a country founded to be a refuge for persecuted people would so ruthlessly persecute others. I do not condone extremism in any form – but the Israeli government continually, quietly, out of the media spotlight, is provoking Palestinian extremists to justify the ghettoization of Palestinians – if the country doing this to the Palestinians was Morocco, or Germany, we would not even be having this conversation.
Rubbish – US is the most bizzare, useless and immoral super power the world has ever seen. We will keep the lands we captured from you, and we will keep killing you and your children, and we will not stop illegal settlements on your land – BUT dare you go to the world (UN) , let's just keep talking. BECAUSE the American president wants to give Palestinians HOPE that the issue will be resolved through dialog. The biggest concern is that if Palestine will become a member state then they can go to the UN against illegal Israeli killings and settlements. WHAT A MODEL OF JUSTICE BY THE WORLD's SUPER POWER. We are just witnessing reasons why these are the last years for US as a super power.
that's what you think, but you're incorrect.
It seems Israel is controlling USA. I predict that USA will rush into a war becuase of Israel becuase no one in USA goverment wants to see the truth. What justification do you have to say that its OK for one country to control another. Colonialism ended over 30 years ago. Aparthied ended 20 years and American leaders are openly telling the world that there should not be Palestinian state. What is the essense of what we are to the world then. freedom but for some?
I think that almost all of what you said is not true. Not only that the US freed my country from the nazis a while ago and i am glad and thankful they did it, i strongly feel that the US tries harder than most other peoples on earth to use their power for stability and democracy for as many people as possible. No question that not every decision is or was the right one, in the aftermath you know somethimes a few things better than before, you might have been misleaded or failed in some instances... but stil i feel to be as fair as a nation can be. And the palestinian story... well, obviously a very sad and tragic one, but i am sick of blaming israel for that. Palestians want a state ?? Well... stop hating and killing jews just because they are jews and accept israels existence und a palestinian state would be a matter of month!! stop whining and blaming... stop the hate, it's as easy as that!
They don't hate Jews just for being Jews; not yhr majority anyway. They hate anyone who takes their land, cages them and allows people to die due to lack of medical care and freedom of movement. There is a difference between hating a government and a race of people. The Israeli government has to be one of the most selfish and arrogant on the planet...next to the u.s. of course.
In the earliest years, the Jews in Israel were in a morally ambiguous position, but there's little doubt that they are in the wrong as far as recent decades go. Hundreds of thousands of Arabs have spent their entire lives living in concentration camps at this point, and police/military attacks against civilians - and even children - occur with ridiculous frequency in retaliation for attacks by armed rebels. It's a real black eye that the US supports Israel the way we do, considering the heinous acts perpetrated by the Israeli state.
Americans are of the most confident nations in the world. Being confident is normally a good thing. Except when the person is an idiot..and don't have a clue..but also shares his view with millions, then being confident becomes dangerous. No wonder they hate you. Rather just read the comments and put the keyboard away.
Zamo: Good thing we don't give a rat's butt what you think.
Cindy, it's not their land to beging with? Do you even know the history? Didn't think so. The Land of Palestine was the land they names with all peroples living in it. It was never Palestinian land, it was a British colonial, just like the Otoman, Like the Romans, Like the Greeks and so forth. But all this time, the Jews were always in this land. Biblically, David ruled over the land, Abraham, after he kicked Ishmael to Mecca, when Moses free the Jews from slavery, the Macabim and so forth. In the bible, it also says that God gave this land to the Jews, nowhere else it says another nation. So pick up a book and read a little. It may teach you Arabs something.
Not all Palestinians reject the existence of Israel. It is Hamas and its supporters. Having said that, when successive Israeli governments take away living space from humans - in the face of global opposition, with the United States acting as its breathless lackey - it is not surprising that Palestinian authorities want to declare statehood unilaterally. Neither the United States nor Israel can be counted on as an honest broker in any such negotiations.
Having said that, of course, Palestinians would also have to show a massive paradigm shift in their own thinking, in order for this thing to succeed.
Have An Extraordinary Day,
Son Of Spam.
so much hate and anger from all, whats happened to peace and tolerance. we are alll created by one God.
everyone as an opinion but all of them would change it if they lived in either Israel, or Palestine. easy to comment from a front room.
Hundreds of thousands of Arabs have spent their entire lives living in concentration camps at
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Well if they did it was NOT Israel you must be talking about Darfur!
you are right on! accept Israel's right to exist within secure borders and stop the daily barrage of missiles from palestinian territory and you will be given statehood. it's that simple. and for you haters, learn the history of the area. there never was a palestinian state or government, although the UN offered one in 1948 and the arab countries rejected it and attacked israel. the territories now in dispute were held by Jordan, Egypt and Syria. those countries treated the civilians worse than dogs. when israel won the 1967 war (started by her neighbors bent on destroying her), israel gave the civilians paved roads, electricity, running water, medical care, schools and offers of citizenship (20% of israeli citizens are arabs). it wasn't until then that the puppet Arrafat and neighboring arab countries saw the value of keeping israel in a constant state of terror and war, using the "palestinian" people as their pawns.
I support Farhans coment
That's because you are a follower of Mohammed the child molester.
Wow, Bill... when I see such wonderfully intelligent statements like yours and think that people like you give other countries nice examples of americans to hate, I really start to understand how they can hate us in the first place. Ignorance. Arrogance. Intolerance. Nice front you're putting up for your country.
Oh, and by the way, before it is attempted to be dragged into the conversation: I was raised catholic. I am not a muslim.
VERY accurate. The u.s. double-standard is coming back to bite them. The world no longer bends over for them and they just aren't used to not getting their way. It's quite pathetic what has become of the u.s.
Really? And I bet the U.S. has done NOTHING for you and your country. I'm sure it hasn't bought goods and services from your country or invested in your domestic industries at all – leading to employment for your fellow countrymen......sorry, countrypeople.
Shut up and stop your whining. Everyone on this blog benefits from the U.S. Don't bite the hand that feeds you or it can turn into a backhand just as quickly.
Ya, right, US isn't getting any benefit from any other country. If there is no China, you probably be living in shanty town because your country go broke from two wars that it can effort to wage.
Re: Alan – it's comments like this, and from all the other US bashing people that make me long for the days when Americans were all about isolationism. I wish we would stop poking our noses into other people's battles, stop funding wars in other countries,stop giving aid of all kinds, humanitarian, military, all of it. Save the money, shore up our own borders, and take care of our own people. Let the ungrateful world police itself. Maybe I'm naive but I believe America's heart has always been in the right place, that our efforts, however misguided at times, stem from the notion that we are making the world a better place. But sometimes, when I hear all the negative comments, I think enough already. I honestly think the US should back off on foreign policy for a while.
Sorry Farhan, but Israel doesn't trust the Palestinians. They feed their children hate in school, TV and text books everyday to hate the Jewish Monsters. What you see on TV is not what it seems. There are over 20 Arab countries around Israel who want to kill every Jewish man, woman and child, so don't give me this BS. Israel gave Gaza, what happened there? Hamas fires over 10,000 rockets into Israeli towns. Israel gave back South Lebanon, but what hapenned then? Hezbollah started a war. Israel doesn't kill on purpose, Israel kills to defend their people, not like the barbarian Arabs (Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Sudan, Egypt, should I go on)? Why should Israel give more land, when Jordan is Palestine?
ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Palestinians feed their children hate????? Why dont you mention the fact that israel has recently changed the Palestinian curriculum to suite its needs? just because we teach our children that they have a right to their own state...to live free, without being insulted daily at the checkpoints...were teaching them to hate???? Its people like you who prove to me that israelis dont want peace.
FreePalestine, I do believe the Palestinians should have their own State, in the State of Jordan. The land belongs to the Jews for thousands of years. The Palestinians are from all over, not the real Philistines, sorry, these are facts, not fiction. If Israel didn't want peace, why did they offer land for peace? They could have not do anything and Israel would have been Israel, but Israel did make an offer for peace. Why are they firing from Gaza then? We left Gaza, why fire? You people are barbaric humans. Even if you did have your own state, you would run it to the ground. Did they ever recover the moneys Arafat stole from Me? An American tax payer? You don't even kknow why you hate Israelis so much, all you know is to hate. If Israel wanted, they could wipe all of you. Don't agree with your stupid logic.
I think these "who was here first" arguments are bs. You could see ownership in many different ways, but I think the most relevant point is that during the post WWII Hebrew settlement, many Palestinians were removed from their homes and put into camps. If a Native American were to tell me that he should take ownership of my house because the land used to belong to his ancestors, you know what I'd tell him... Regardless of the legitimacy of statehood, there is a large people group who were displaced by the Israeli state and that violated human rights. Clearly Hamas and company have committed numerous crimes during and after the occupation, but let's not pretend the Israeli government has clean hands in this mess.
KingNear, NO, they had a choice to leave or stay. You must be reading the Jihadist newspaper. Islam lies to you to me and to the world in order to dominate the world. Islam is Satan
ARE YOU SERIOUS??? Palestinians feed their children hate
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Yes here is a link to YouTube where they are using Micky Mouse to spread hate..
AD 79 Jews were driven out of Palestine. The only places where the Jews were not harmed was in Arab and South Asia. The Jews were protected in Arab/Muslim controlled lands as "people of the book" and followers of one God. (Just like the early Christians.) Most of the Jews in Israel came from Europe and Russia and have very little connection to the land. The Jews treat the Palestine Arabs in the same manner that the Nazi's treated the Jews no difference. Stealing someone else's land and blaming it on God is pretty lame.
"kingnear": nobody put anyone int "camps". Britian and the UN divided the land of "palestine", setting 1948 borders that were ridiculous but accepted by Israel. the arabs rejected this and attacked. borders change when there is a war. arab sympathizers were free to go wherever they chose outside of Israel. many arabs stayed and became citizens. the so-called concentration camps folks like you like to point to were created by the arab neighbors of israel, who didn't want the palestinian arabs to live with them. israel didn't get control of these areas until 1967, when she miraculuosly prevailed in the war of agression orchestrated against her by all of her arab neighbors. israel has never forced people to stay in these disputed areas, the arabs neighbors have done so. and israel brought electricity, running water, schools, medical care, paved roads and jobs to these areas. unfortunately, the occupants were used as pawns by the arab neighbors still licking their wounds and they were brainwashed to believ that israel was the root of all of their suffering. once the terror bombs began, israel had no choice but to close its borders with these territories.
The Palestinians want a real state that is recognised by the U.N. There is not going to be any peace with Israel because Israel does not want real peace all they want is to keep the tensions high so the U.S. will send them more and more money so the IDF can kill as many Palestinians as possible and then tell the world it is defending itself. The government of Israel is out of control. They talk peace while they starve and kill anyone who might be in there way. Their time will come when the U.S. will be so broke it will no longer be able to support the monster Israel has become and that will be a good day and then peace will come not one second before.
It's simple there is no Palestinian people. They have no history before Arafat they do not exist. Before the Arabs decided to use this name that there is no P in Arabic this was a term for JEWS.
Anyone with any knowledge what so ever knows this.
The Arabs so called Palestinian people have no history in this world. No country, No language, No religion, No government, No monetary system, No date of the creation of this historic country no archaeological facts nothing.
JUST A GREAT LIE
@Levi: Those people must have some origin, though. So why don't you ask yourself how they got severed from their roots, their history, their people, their land? Everyone makes it clear there's no returning to any past state or situation, so the only way for these people is to move forward. They're creating their own history now. Don't think history only started in the past. History begins every day.
Levi,
Palestine is English, it is called Filistin in arabic. You cannot be unaware of this. Why would you write "there is no P in arabic"?
Palestinians are Nomads, simple. They come from the desert of many nations. If you are referring to the Philistines in biblical times, King David wiped them completely. There are no true Philistines, they are not even the descendants of Philistines, they are the descendants of Persia, Syria, Iraq and so forth. Read it, it's in the Bible, the Torah.
Levi- according to the bible you love so very much.
Jesus, the savior, never walked in a land called Israel...not even the maps on the back covers of your bible has Israel on it.
IT'S ALWAYS PALESTINE...run, get your bible and see if you can scream..YOU LIE!
So levi(assuming you are an American)... you would be willing to give your land back to the the peoples that were here before the Europeans came?
Levi is correct. Before 1948, the Jews living around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem were the ones called Palestinians (as they lived in the land once called Palestine). Before calling themselves Palestinians, 43 years ago, West Bank Arabs were Jordanians and Gazans were Egyptians. During peace talks with Israel, both Egypt and Jordan relinquished these territories and abandoned the Arabs living there. These Arabs started to call themselves Palestinians as a rejection of the state of Israel. The REAL Palestinian Arabs who were living in Pre-1948 Palestine either left or became Israeli citizens (they represent 20% of Israel population and have the same rights as Israeli Jews). Most of those who left did so on Arab leaders advice so as to clear the land for the war of anihilation they were planning to wage on the Jews. Not only did the Arab leaders fail to destroy the Jews and give back Palestine to the now-Arab-refugees, they treat these refugees as second class citizens to this day. The Arabs who became Israelis have today way more rights and opportunities than the ones who fled to Liban, Syria and so on. These Israeli Arabs are the REAL Palestinians (together with the Jews that were living in Palestine before 1948) and they do not wanna be part of any Arab state, they wanna stay Israeli citizens. To know the origins of the West Bank and Gaza Arabs, just look at their family names (The Egytian, The Iraqi, The Libanese...). Arafat was born and raised in Egypt, he was no Palestinian. Ariel Sharon was born in Palestine and was a REAL Palestinian. Anyway, Abbas is trying to get what Arabs refused in 1947 and many times after. If a Palestine 2.0 has to be created, it should settle the Arab-Israel conflict once and for all. It should accept to take all the Palestinian refugees and it should include parts of Jordan as well. It should accept Israel as its neighbor and renounce the violence of Hamas and all the terrorists (included Fatah) and give back Gilad Shalit to his family. Jerusalem was won by war and it will be lost only by war.
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Umm, just one thing,,,I have a Palestinian coin, says Palistine written in Arabic on one side, on the other is written in Hebrew, so explain to me this, if Palistine did not ever exist and that you say was "Jordan" how is it they had money that said "Palistine" and one SHOULD leran history, if one does, they would learn there are more than 2 sides to a story, I postulate that there are 8 sides to very story, and not all is black and white. And I further state that it is time to stop the hate from BOTH sides not all are innocent all are complicant, but there should be a stop to all this killing and rancour.
100% Agree Terrorist state (iSRAEL) a killling machin is the biggest propblem in the world.
We all need a FREE ISLAM WORLD
farhan you are the man I agree
Yeh, sure if you learing grade 3 Hate Israel class in Gaza. You know crap about Israel, so get a life and go to Syria. They will like you better there
FINAL Islam going to rule world nobody stop ISLAM nobody. O hater of ISLAM go and eat your heart out. God have chosen ISLAM as final religoin untill dooms day. you like or not.
God vs Islam, I think God will win. The Koran is written by Satan himself.
I totaly agree,Why Israel is treated like how they say in russian BALOVANI REBIONOK Gadost, I cant understand,Palestinians have the same right as the Jewish people,if not then it will be the start of new wars coming soon,Anti USA and Israel in the whole region,more terrorists and radicals etc.
Besides rights, they also have duties
God Bless Israel.
God bless Israel for what? killing innocent women and childer,stealing lands, destroy poeples homes, terrorise entire population, shame on you MR. you have criminal mind.
Rev. your Israeli friends hate mighty Jesus they called him bastrd child. they says untill now merry is a whor. what you say about that? you hate ISLAM thats why you support terrorist jews.
Rev, Tony is very uneducated child. He thinks we will all convert to Satan's worship of Islam. The Jews don't hate Christians, The Jews and Christians have the same values, which Islam is against. The wrath of God will punish those who seek to destroy Israel.
Tony – what goes around comes around – you stop this we stop that – i could see islrael stop killing "innocent" men – do u see hammas stop killing people in israel?
Farhan, bud you are dead right. USA=United Stupids of America
all those 'illegal" killings aren't illegal they are tragedies each and every one of them but how can you only blame one side of the problem
If there was any justice in the world, the UN would have it's armies invade the part of the holy land that the palestinian parasites now infect and exterminate all the vermin there. The Jews are an honest humanitarian people who have been plagued by this vermin for too long.
Here is an idea. IF the Arab Muslims of Palestine want Statehood (nationhood) then why not try a "reverse Texas" manuever? Instead of attempting to declare independence first then become a state, apply to become America's 51st state! or vote to become a territory or commonwealth like Puerto Rico then 20-50 years down the road vote for independence from the United States! It would instantly change the playing field. It would hallenge all US foreign policy in the Middle East, drive a wedge between the US and Israel, and quickly show America's hypocrisy regarding democratic change in the Arab world. It's a perverse, out of left field idea, but until they really DO try everything they should quit whining about losing the wars they start.
Israel relies on instability just like Hamas does. So much that it wouldn't surprise me if they were in contact over the past few weeks trying to find a way to stop the PA's statehood....Hamas thrives on this status quo. Injustice, land confiscation, check points....and Israel thrives on the few rockets that miss settlements by miles. It gives them an excuse for blockades that then lead to settlements. The main problem here is not even Israel. Israelis are pretty cool people and a majority of them want a free palestine. Of course they have their own version of red necks and tea party morons, but they're a minority. The main problem is American jews who live in the US. Their goal is to capture all the promised land just in case... The peace process doesn't affect their daily lives at all.
It's just sad to see the US lose credibility just to please the jewish lobby. Congressmen rely on jewish lobbies for campaign funding. They make a simple pact. We'll fund you, but the day an Israeli issue arises....right or wrong, you'll take our side.
Anyone who supports Islam to Israel will lose big. You watch.
We have the drones. What we will do when we get our troops out of your benighted and pathetic countries is send four or five a day to randomly bomb anything over 50 feet tall. If you want us to stop, pay us, and we'll stop for a while. This will continue until you wise up or you are exterminated.
What are those "illegal killings" by your standards? I guess blowing yourself up on a bus or in a grocery store to kill as many innocent civilians is considered legitimate, but launching attacks on militants (only after dropping leaflets warning of such attacks) is considered illegal.
It's nice to have the luxury of being wrong.
Can't blame you for feeling that way, Farhan. We elected Obama exactly for this moment–and he's about to blow it, all in a vain attempt to win a second term. Can't afford to alienate the Jewish vote. All that talk about "Yes we can" and changing politics as usual. All BS. He will be a one-term president no matter what he does, but letting the UN resolution stand would cement his legacy forever. THAT would be a real change. But instead he's going to veto the resolution because he thinks the Palestinians and Israelis need to negotiate first. Puhleeze. The Israelis have no more intention of negotiating in good faith than the Republicans do. If the guy could fight, he would understand the value of a level playing field, But he's too nice. He doesn't understand. He's not a leader, he's a wimp. A real leader needs to fight sometimes, and someties he needs to sacrifice himself for a higher cause. But he's throwing away his legacy by pandering to the Jewish vote. He's too weak to do the right thing, and that means he's lost my vote. I didn't know I was voting for a wimp, and he can bet his life that I won't knowingly vote for a wimp. He's a nice guy–good to have as a neighbor probably. Great ideas, great speaker at times. But he's too nice to be President. He needs to learn how to tell guys like Nettanyahu to go to hell. 100 years from now he won't be remembered for anything more than presiding over the worst economy in 80 years. Sad.
Um, ok.
If the US stop paying to the UN, then we can move the world ahead without their nasty, right wing Congress dictating to the rest of the world .... we can throw them, and Israel out of the UN. They can be a nasty club of two, which ought to make them happy and the US Congress can be pleased with istself.
And then the world can pay for its own protection, health services, food programs, etc... oh wait they can't.
When the UN kicks the US and Israel out of the UN, we can kick the UN out of New York and finally get rid of the law breaking, diplomatically immune, arrogant representatives. The UN only exists to this day because of the US so be careful of what you wish for.
Until your little godforsaken corner of the world needs help from the big bad boys.. huh..
Sadly, it appears the US is now talking to an audience of one – itself. In the past, the US had a major voice because it was respected around the world not just for its military strength but also for the strength of its leadership and government structure.
Now, it is listened to and the world carries on regardless of its opinion. Those on the right, and left, in the US may hyperventilate about it with many still believing in the natural supremacy of their country. Again, they are talking to themselves; the rest of the world has tuned out.
We watch your government rip itself apart due to entrenched ideological positions and ask "do we want these people to dictate our world" , the answer is no. We watch as your representatives try to tell the world how to fix their economic problems and laugh – this is from the country that mortgaged its future for the sake of a flat screen TV and 4X4.
We listen as your representatives discuss how others should be more democratic and then laugh as your politicians destroy each other and the democratic system financed by single topic action groups, led by those who think the world is divided into those who support their cause and those who disagree and must therefore be destroyed both through argument and character assassination.
There are those in the US who say rightly the world owes them for what they did – they forget that it is not what they did, it is what their fathers and grandfathers did along with their mothers and grandmothers, The rest of the world owes you, the current generation of US politicians and leader nothing except our loathing for the way in which you have caused the destruction of your once great and honest country.
You should be ashamed
Well Said SIR!!!!
I'm an American and that sadly sums up how I feel about the U.S.
one day america go down with israel because they support blindly. why not Amricans come out in millions and protest. Once great country today live like a baggers.
That just about sums it up. I am an American and I live abroad. I will never live in the U.S. again as I am saddened by what it has become. All the WWII generation that are still with us must look at American now and begin to wonder what they sacrificed so much for. Those that have sadly passed must be turning over in their graves. Americans on the whole are still good people and everywhere I travel people always comment on the generosity of Americans. Its is a shame that the leadership of the U.S. has destroyed everything.
My Father who was a WWII vet confided in me several years ago before he passed that he felt he saw America at it's best. That it would never be what it was.
As a born and bred American, I say well said! It is very sad and quite frightening what our politicians and banking industry have done, and are doing to our country.
The ideologues are holding us hostage!
Think who run your politician? and Banking system on other then friends of Criminal Israelies. tell me if am wrong.
Jim, thank you for your elegant reply.
JIM you so right.
Well said Jim.
Why is it when the U.S. does anything in favor of Israel do so many Americans suddenly come out of the closet (in a matter of speaking) to criticize foreign policy? ISRAEL IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE DEMOCRATIC NATION IN THE MIDDLE EAST! It shouldn't be a strange concept to people. We've been in Iraq and Afghanistan for the better part of the last decade, and what have we accomplished? Deep down these regions still hate us.
Do not judge the whole, Not all Americans are alike, we are still a great Country in so many ways, as all Countries there are problems and divides, are the American people happy with the leaders that be, a great many, NO, but soooo many around the worls are so busy witj their judgements, they rise to the hate or the negative thought, hence the proble in trying to solve an issue, such as the one before us. This is 2011 folks, no wars should be fought anymore, but there are, it is alot about money, and even more so about "machio" hormones-not religion, religion is the excuse for power, proving "your a man" and making money-so all of you get off the high horse-no one is innocent, and stop the blame and SOLVE THE DAMN PROBLEM!!
Jim is right and it is nauseating to see Israeli gold diggers playing the Tea Baggers to whip up sentiment against the president and against the UN. Yes, yes, I know. For saying things like that I am an anti-semite and a holocaust denier and un-Christan to boot.
Even as a conservative American that loves his country, has served it and would again, I could easily come up with some blithey arrogant thing to say, but fear that you are correct. The nation that was, is no longer in spirit nor deed. However, someday, we may be needed again and my sincere hope is that memory is long.
As I recall, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Perhaps it's time to recognize Palestinian statehood and allow the UN to mediate the peace process. Of course, withholding a veto would almost certainly mean that the President would not be reelected.
Is it just me, or does he look like he just got punched in the face a few times in this picture? I seriously thought I was on The Onion for a few seconds after looking at that.
oh, I see, its the shadow of his own hand in red lighting
That's what I thought as well. When I looked at the picture I thought "Why is Obama covered in blood?" then I just figured it was horrible lighting/horrible picture (as if they couldn't get other photos from the event)
Well Said SIR!!! to JIM
My fellow Americans,
1. Maybe it's a good idea for the "Tea Party" to cut funding to the UN
2. This will lead to either a collapse or a re-organization of the UN
3. A new UN with equal and democratic representation to all countries of the world will be more efficient.
4. As you know, the 5 permanent veto members (including the USA) have clearly shown that the veto system = dictatorship at the UN.
5. Specifically, the Palestinian State will be created in a UN democratic vote = Less Middle-East hatred against America = Less costly wars for America = Less American taxpayers' money wasted on weapons and wars = Good for America.
6. If the "Tea Party" can help re-organize the UN as described above, then I will vote for them.
Peace, Love, and Freedom to ALL!
And let them butcher the country? No.
Besides... UN Security Council's a good idea; it would be better if we had a rotating council. You can't expect quick action from a body of 150.
Define "butcher"? By "butcher", do you mean "stop the US from spending money it doesn't actually have."? If that's butchering, then we need to make Washington a veritable slaughterhouse.
You CLEARLY has no clue what the purpose of the U.N. is, nor the massive list of accomplishments it has achieved over many years. The u.s. feels it can survive without the rest of the world? Be our guest. Who said american arrogance was dead?
To all the people's of other countries who continually bash the US, its not us who brought most of the entire world to war with one another, not once but twice. We were the deciding force in ending it however. The UN is absolutely wothless and made up of petty dictators and tyrants. Without the US there is no UN. Our ancestors did not shed their blood on foreign soil for a bunch of ingrates. We are fighting two wars that could have been over years ago if we were not busy trying to appease the rest of you and make a lasting peace in these regions where little girls were not allowed to even learn to read and go to school without fear of muslims trying to hurt them. Check your definition of evil and cowardice and then look in the mirror. If you can do better then by all means we wish you would put your money where your mouth is.
@Mat - PREACH IT! That was so very well said...thank you!
@Mat. Look around man, just look at Libya, the US retreated and the french and english took the lead gladly. To free a country and make it democratic. The US is not what it was.
Obama failed on every front, impeach!
Idiot.
Poor OBAMA he is slave of white masters.
Alll these aberrations blow over, the US can be fixed if the world likes it or not, has been through much worse,
the political and religious undertones of the venting deny reality, in the end you have the energy to do your own life,true for the masses, and that means there will be co operation from necessity eventually, media is a tempest in a tea pot, the North Korean war they all said imminent did not happen, will not happen, reunification in twenty years, we remember the Cold War and McCarthy, now laughable, the commies will take over your house, under your bed now
this article has a lot of words. i'm going to assume that as usual, a lot of words = no substance.
all i want to say is that i wish this article were written by Patrick Stewart. then may have been interested. make it so.
DOES ANYBODY KNOWS WHERE IS PALIN? DID YOU RUN OFF WITH ANOTHER BLACK GUY. ONCE YOU GO BLACK YOU DON'T GO BACK!
Palin is anther F***up American. she is a pure whor.
Israel doesn't trust the Palestinians and therefore cannot give land that doesn't belong to the Palestinians. The Palestinians feed their children hate everyday in school, television and their text books to hate the Jews, nothing changes with evil people. What you see on TV is not what it seems. There are over 20 Arab countries around Israel who want to kill every Jewish man, woman and child. Israel gave Gaza, what happened there? Hamas fires over 10,000 rockets into Israeli towns. Israel gave back South Lebanon, but what hapenned then? Hezbollah started a war. Israel doesn't kill on purpose, Israel kills to defend their people, not like the barbarian Arabs (Syria, Iraq, Lybia, Sudan, Egypt, should I go on)? Why should Israel give more land, when Jordan is Palestine.
Support terrorist Israel Final your brian got F**UD.you happy when little child get kiilled by crimnal IDF. do you know once guy called HITLER?
Hey Tony, why don't you kill some more babies, you fck)n terrorist pig
Don't worry Tony, there will be a war and all you Arab terrosist will finally shut up. Sick of Islam, you devil worshipers.
How's your supply of rockets there tony???
hey dum a..s jew terrorist you did not answer me did you heard guy called HITLER....? how many you are now in the world F***ing only 20 millions. now most American also got sick of you terrorist, liars,crooks, thugs, and afcourse PIGS.
Hey Tony, Syria (Muslims), killed over 3000 people (Muslims) in a very short period of time? How come you not saying anything about that? Where is your divine Koran. Come Tony, lie to me some more.
I am afraid that those in power in Israel will never settle for peace. They will keep building illegal settlements and propagate deadly raids to purge the “undesirables”. I think it is time that we put some real pressure on the Israelis to do the right thing. Our (the United States) relationship with Israel is unfathomable. The world and especially the middle east are being held hostage by the Israeli greed for land. They are like spoiled brats that must always get their way. In this time of the Arab spring we need to rethink the position we as a nation will take. Although I support the President I would hope that he would hold that veto.
Turbo, so is it your opinion that when a nation wins a war and gains land that is illegal?
Maybe the Muslims should give back all the land that they conquered before 650. That would leave them with the Arabian Pennisula and that is about it!
Mr. Conservative, Don't you think 1492 would like between today and 650 AD????
so....if they go back to the arabian penninsula...wouldnt that mean everyone in the US,Canada,Australia,New zealand,Brazil,Argentina,Chile...etc have to pack up and move back to europe, africa, and asia.
if the have to leave......half the world would have to leave their current country ......would only be fair
Conservative You so stupid after 650 there are millions of jews,christains,Hindus,chines,Africans,white,black, become a Muslim. do you know how many people believe in ISLAM in the world? 25% every 4th person is a muslim. I was Hindu i am very proud to be a muslim. as Abrham,Moses,David,Solomon,Jesus, (Peace and blessing on them) were Muslim and believe in ISLAM. ISLAM start from ADAM AND EVE. Dont know where JEWS word come from? After prophet Jacub tribe called tribe ISRAEL GOD called them O TRIBE OF ISRAEL ... Never says O JEWS.
1.
David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel:
""""“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti – Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” """"
2.
We all live on stolen land.
Every single person on earth lives on land once (or rather several times) conquered by means of genocide or ethnic cleansing or both!
After some time (say one hundred years) reversing such an incident becomes the greater evil and status quo the lesser one- as the present Israel so sadly proves!
3.
Holocaust and Israel
Abused kids grow up into 2 categories:
- Those who hate abuse and stay away from it
- Those who become abusers themselves
If you think Israel belongs to the first group, you are blind and deaf to reality!
Fact is there is a hooligan in the neighborhood terrorizing everybody. Impossible to make him behave like a civilized person because he has gotten a mighty uncle that obstructs any attempts to correct the situation.
It is also a fact this thug was abused in his childhood and now has grown up to be a tera abuser himself.
Do you still wonder why the tug and his uncle are hated and despised by every one???
Even as Obama's inside & outside anti-Semite, anti-American advisors like Mr. FAREED ZAKARIA, Rashad Hassan (US Ambassador to OIC), Imam Rauf (US Goodwill Ambassador to the ME) have been urging Mr. Obama to abandon our trusted ally Israel & throw our hat behind the ungrateful Palestinians, thankfully President Obama has been under check due to a groundswell of public & law makers’ support.
Unfortunately in my former homeland docile India, the govt. continues to be hostile to the Jewish nation, much against the will of the Hindu majority!
No wonder a recent BBC poll showed that the support for the Palestinian UN bid was the lowest in India and then the US.
Not true, in the results published on September 19, it shows that American support for the Palestine state is 47%
I am really angry over all the comments from foreign nationals about our country. I have been around the world and wouldn't want to live anywhere else. I feel sorry for the jews because most of the world, including Europe despises them. The arabs would kill them all. Only the US would defend them until Obama-mama came to power. He has destroyed us in ways that cannot be measured. Let's get rid of him, the UN, and the crazy progressives. Defend Isreal at all cost, they really are our friends. For you foreign writers-go to hell.Semper Fi
I am a Polish-American Catholic, and if it were in my power, I would be defending Israel, as well. But, beyond writing, I have no power, with thew exception, of course, of the Power of God, which is with me all the time. I hope that the UN has some wise leaders left. A new resolution is needed, as I have outlined above, before declaring the State of Palestine! I am glad to say, that my native country, Poland, has chosen to fight any attempts to hurt Israel. I have read this in the European press. So the U.S. won't be totally isolated.
Take a chill pill mate.
Thank you for your service Dennis, it's unfortunately a game that is played continually now by those that just like in our country, believe more of what they read, and what is popular on the street than any cognizance of middle town America. They will come calling again with hat in hand, they always do, and we to our detriment always respond...
Try living in Syria.
Try to live in Israel as ARAB. Jews settlers are the most criminal in the country.
I see some interim solution possible. The proclamation of a Palestinian State can only be in mind, not in reality, an intention, and no more than that. Until borders are negotiated, there is no real state, for all viable states, by UN law, have borders! All the world desires the Palestine State! But no one tries to settle the borders! That should be written into a UN resolution, prior to de facto state declaration!
Why would Europeans care about Palestines? They apparently don't know history and how the Muslim cancer tried to wipe out Europe from 600 A.D. to the 1600s.
I agree with the poster above. There is no Palestinian people. That land is Israel. Also if Israel wins something in war, then they deserve it. Should the US give back California and Texas to Mexico?
Give CA and TX back to Mexico.....the only thing that is missing is the 'paperwork' for these 2 states to be included within Mexico......many parts of both states have the 'look, feel, and social graces' of our neighbor to the South.......
If Israel has to give back West Bank, then I think Turkey should go back to Greece (Greeks settled it first), Tibet should get independent, most of Russia should go back to Mongolia, all the White people must leave South Africa, the US must give California, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas back to Mexico, and all of Europe should be given back to Italy and be called the Roman Empire again.
This is beginning of END for terrorist Israelies. Arab spring coming your way.
I understand Arabs don't like faces covered with sunglasses... I would suggest buying some if Israel is pushed too hard.
ok.....israel took the west bank within the last 100 years......and it should give it back......tibet SHOULD be free.
im an american so its hard to say we should give back the south west to mexico ;P....but they immigrate to get away thats all im gonna say
I think the murder, thieving muslims should give us back the lands of the New Testament like Antioch, Egypt, Syria, Asia Minor (Turkey), Carthage (Tunisia), etc.
Allow Christians to pray and worship freely in those lands, the lands where our faith started.
Mr. Conservative, Outside Monument Valley state park, I saw a Navajo Indian with a T-shirt that read " Dept of Home Land Security, Fighting War on Terror since 1492" Are sure you will give him back what you ask of the Arabs? Just curious!! Come on, let me see how truthful you are. Remember HE is watching your thoughts..
hey hater of Muslims tell me america have miilions who are white ans new muslim where they go? you son of whor your brian got F**ed remember the more you A..SHOL hate Muslim the more you get hurt.
You lost at son of a hore...
the crusades?!?! colonization of the americas!?!?!?The witch hunts?!?!?
You're everything that's wrong with our country. How can one write such an uneducated and extremist comment and not be embarrassed by it.
abandon lead from behind and try leading from the front.
To Farhan, Jim, Rajesh Unnikrishan, etc,
If you are living in America, then would you all do us a favor, and live somewhere else, let's say, Palestine ? The USA is in this shape today because of hypocrites like you all. And if you are foreign nationals, leave this country and go back to the sh** hole from where you came.
hey sano1 son of bi...ch F**UD ugly face your the biggest A..S HOL in the US. you go back where F*** u you come from..truth hurts I thinkl you fergot 9/11 that what happen is the part of America support That little sht country(israel)
you are a very sad, sorry ass of a human being. Keep reading the Koran, you are almost official of becoming the next suicide bomber.
Check that blood pressure tony....your going to pop your little muslim head!!!
Dont trust muslim. all they teach is hatred against Non muslims and western countries. Please remember what they did when twin tower was demolished , they were dancing and celebrating on the streets and giving away sweets and cakes. US is the most charitable country In the world. Arabs and Muslims want to destroy and kill all non muslims, They spread hatred , disunity, Terrorism in this world.
you dum A..S hater of Muslim son of a b..ch you F*** ud up every where you go.look around. your guns kiiling innocent people in the world that includ 60 years of poor unarm poeple ofpalestine.criminals ,liars only evil poeple do not understan suffering of womwn and childern of Palestine....Wish all the best to PALESTINE
Why, we wish the best to you Tony..too bad you display the very thing that we have had the luxury of witnessing for the last several decades.
You hate Muslim so much look like you Mama got BONCK by ARAB....lol Tony you are going to get F*** by Muslims you like or not Fu*k you and terrorist Israelies
idiot
An American Jewish comedian, Heny Youngman has a running joke... Take my Tony, Please.
If Muslims dont like the USA then why you people immigrate to this wonderful country. You USA haters all go to your Afganistan, Pakistan, Palestine etc. Leave our country then we will have real peace in the USA.
Tony, I hate to be the one to tell you this, even if the 'haters' leave the USA, we have enough of 'our own' who can bring this country down....I would love to have 'real peace' in the US, just don't think as long as we have humans this is going to happen......
They hate us, but love to live in our free democratic way. This is what the Koran does to people. Hand written by the devil himself.
sorry
wo you are ignorant Tony.....have you ever talked with someone from another country who moved here??? i have....and while there have been a few who loved their old country over the US....the majority love this country and thats why they moved here. They move to escape violence in their country, in some cases they have anger because it can be veiwed we started it.
so.......the point is......dont make general ignorant statements that is only true for a small percentage of people, the apply it to millions here and half way around the world
What is wrong with her being with a black guy, libby?
On the other hand, Obama could use this opportunity to cement America's place in the new world order and SUPPORT Palestine's bid for statehood, and guarantee JOBS for milliions of Americans that rely on oil-industry jobs, including favorable new contracts throughout the middle east and elsewhere. The Israel/Palestinian conflict is an albatross that won't go away with Israeli's in charge of the process (they prefer not to deal with it.. rather just keep building walls and settlements). The US has to take a bigger world view. Israel is small potatoes - the aspirations (and purhasing power!) of hundreds of millions of Arabs and others throughout the middle east and North Africa is a far bigger potatoes and has to be the focus of our energies. Personally I say let Russia deal with the arbitration of the conflict and let the US go on to help the new emerging deomocracies of the middle east and the good will and purchasing power for American goods that this might create!!
AGREE because of criminal Israel America get hurt badly. why so many American so stupid can not see where is the problen coming from? American have boold own thier hands.they give guns to Terrorist IDF who killed 10000s of innocent Palestininas. WAKE UP TIME NOW
Anyone see anything on all of CNN.com about the protests on Wall Street? They are still going on and unfortunately, they are invisible to CNN. Pathetic lack of coverage. Is this a news site or just corporate propaganda?
All the posts that are being posted here and are anti-USA and/or anti Israel are being posted either by arabs or by the immigrants from pakistan. The pakistani people are the most dangerous kind of all muslems. They are the cultivators of hate, terror, murder, lies and destruction. The war in Afghanestan has become a piggy bank and a good source of income for pakistan. They want this war to drag for two or three more decades. They hate the US more than any other people in the world and yet, you can find them here by the millions. If here is so bad then what are you doing here? Or may be and just a strong may be that there are other plans that needs to be discovered? Never trust a paki. even if your life depends on it. All very bad people and traitors to the core.
Oil at $87/brl. and gas @ $4/gal. Gas was @ $4/gal when oil was at $112/brl. So are you happy and satisfied that the oil companies are paying less for oil and we are still paying the high price for gas. At today's oil price, gas should NOT be more than $2.65/gal. So why are we paying $1.35/gal more? Here is a suggestion. As of Oct. 15th-2011 start boycotting Exxon/Mobile. They stand to lose Billions of dollars. Due to loss of sales and a sudden drop in their stock values. In order to avert this loss, they will have to regain their customers at the pump. The only way to get their customers back will be reduction in gas prices at their gas stations. A nationwide boycott will achieve this goal. Please join in and also inform all your friends and relatives. Oct. 15th-2011. Boycott Exxon/Mobile.
America is the most generous country in the world. All they do is to liberate the voiceless citizens of countries around the world.Let USA also reduce its contribution at the UN, and china, the world money grabber(piracy, unfair trade polices, fixed exchange rate etc) increase their UN contribution and response to disaster arounf the world.
As per USA leadership, American should be proud of their president and understand that economic crisis is world over not only in US, and it is because of China unfair trade.All money allover the world is ending up in China where it is kept without spending bse they are so mean.
If you take the hate from it, all you have left is bugs bunny giberesh.
there is no book like Quran. if anybody take time and study Quran you will be MUslim as i did. Quran is the only Divine book in the world.
NO tony, if we study the Koran we WON"T be Muslim like you did.
Conservative You so stupid after 650 there are millions of jews,christains,Hindus,chines,Africans,white,black, become a Muslim. do you know how many people believe in ISLAM in the world? 25% every 4th person is a muslim. I was Hindu i am very proud to be a muslim. as Abrham,Moses,David,Solomon,Jesus, (Peace and blessing on them) were Muslim and believe in ISLAM. ISLAM start from ADAM AND EVE. Dont know where JEWS word come from? After prophet Jacub tribe called tribe ISRAEL GOD called them O TRIBE OF ISRAEL ... Never says O JEWS
Islam did not start with Adam and Eve. Islam started not too long ago. The 5 books of Moses are meant for the 12 Tribes of Israel. The 12 Tribes were divided and each tribe had there role in the Temple of Israel. The 12 tribes are the only people who followed the real laws of the real God, not Islam or Muslims (didn't exist). The 10 commandments were given to the Hebrews, the chosen people. The Chosen people were called; Hebrews, Israelites and later on the centuries established a name for all, which is Yehudi (Jewish). Just like you believe, we also believe there will be a war between good and Evil. Guess who I'm picking? The God of love and not the God of fear. The Koran is Satanic, you just don't know it yet. The more Muslim you become, the more evil you become.
if the Quran is stanic then why Quran talk so highly about moses and David, solomon and mighty Jesus and all the greatest prophets go and study you will repent what you say about Quran. if you insult Quran you insult Moses,david Jesus so on. because you blind and deaf you not going to understand. Saitan playing with you and hater of greatest of all faith ISLAM>
Tony, you are duped. I am against Satan, who wrote the Koran to trick stupid people like you.
Yo, BO!
Do something for the history books: When the vote gets to the Security Council, ABSTAIN.
sorry.
how did Mohammad manage to brain-wash so many followers.....he was a child molester marrying 12 year old girls....disgusting!!!!!!!!!!! Suppose the same people who tell women they have to cover their heads because they are lesser than the men who stone them
Yuck you the one got brian ..fuked up
The truth hurts Tony. Which other religion stones women to death because they try to escape a terrible husband that beats them.......yours!
go and read bible and torah then you open your dirty mouth YUCK.
Obama to the UN:
"Ladies and gentlemen...I screwed you all......good evening"
Right on the money–and he gets a great retirement after 4 years of screwing us–what a deal–
Obama, back the proposal, speak for right not for the money changers we mistake as legislators.Your time is now not tomorrow if you want to change the world in my opinion for the better.
wow, dis page is burnin up wit hatred. i can smell a fumes. If we all had love one for another, the world would b such a better place for us ti live in. May God help us all!!!!
Its noisy because no one listens to him anymore–Same old Blah-Blah-Blah
I wonder whether the "Tea Party" have the guts to do away with UN should they ever (God forbids) come to power...
I wonder what they'd come up with in the absence of UN...
I wonder if US organizes something like a "League of Nations of Guns N' Bible", would the World all start to follow the "Teachings of Christ"...
I wonder what a World without order looks like, just out of curiosity...
Or maybe I am simply self-destructive and secretly hope the World feels the same way...
It's about time we prepare another nuclear demonstration to show the world what happens when they get to far out of line with respect to the U.S.
Can we PLEASE nuke France? No one likes them, either.
A blurry effect in the photo of this report, seems like their is blood on his face. A first, I thought he got hurt.
A blurry effect in the photo of this report, seems like their is blood on his face. At first, I thought he got hurt.
From reading this I can glean one or two things: 1) I agree with most of Jim's eloquent comment. 2) A large portion of the debate is religion based. The US is on the cusp of becoming a Christian fundamentalist state. Looking from afar I cannot for the life of me understand why any sane person would ever consider voting Republican – they just all seem to be crazy.
I lived in Israel for one year and sadly I cannot see a solution in sight. If Israel would cease building settlements on the West Bank that would be a start. But this does not seem likely. Israelis want peace and Palestinians want peace but it seems the politicians are unable to comply in any way shape or form.
Dare I say that we will never solve this problem until the human race has evolved to such a level that all the fairy tale religions are a sad remnant of the past. And I mean ALL religions.
It's evident that the AIPAC Jewish Lobby dominates the corrupt US Congress and that the representatives prefers the gold than justice. Poor American people, dominated by a small group of foreign interests that works even against the US interests in the World.
US blindminded support to Israel affects US rightful stand on the world stage. Isreal is the one and only reason for all the problems US is facing today. US historic support to Israel is nothing but unreasonable religious fundamentalism which affects the entire world. Religious and historicand political values are not important. A just stand for a just cause is what Obama needs to take. If All the Palestine people were Chiristian, US would not have treated them same way.Every person in this world must be treated equally. A religion and an history is not bigger than humanity. Using veto in UN is the most undemocratic act. Because, It becomes the case of minority deciding the fate of majority.Power Veto is a threat to democractic values. Veto power is autocratic. It makes democracy meaningless. Becuase, A powerful country imposing its own will on the entire world is definitely undemocratic and an act of dictatorship. Leave religion and politics behind and just do what is right. This is what world community wants.
What happens the very second America abandons Israel???? Don't let the muzzies fool you, they are terrified of the US whether they decry or not and we are the only reason they do nothing. Israel, for better or worse is our smaller brother and has and will be. To abandon her is to witness another holocaust, of our making.
US veto against Palestine statehood is inhuman.
Dont blame the Palestinians to start signing up for suicide boming recruitment calls if the diplomatic channels are blocked by so colled civilised nations
Israel relies on instability just like Hamas does. So much that it wouldn't surprise me if they were in contact over the past few weeks trying to find a way to stop the PA's statehood....Hamas thrives on this status quo. Injustice, land confiscation, check points....and Israel thrives on the few rockets that miss settlements by miles. It gives them an excuse for blockades that then lead to settlements. The main problem here is not even Israel. Israelis are pretty cool people and a majority of them want a free palestine. Of course they have their own version of red necks and tea party morons, but they're a minority. The main problem is American jews who live in the US. Their goal is to capture all the promised land just in case... The peace process doesn't affect their daily lives at all.
It's just sad to see the US lose credibility just to please the jewish lobby. Congressmen rely on jewish lobbies for campaign funding. They make a simple pact. We'll fund you, but the day an Israeli issue arises....right or wrong, you'll take our side.
"By casting its veto,Washington will isolate itself from European allies, to say nothing of the UN’s broader membership, and raise doubts about whether it can ever be an honest broker in the Middle East."
Thanks for the laugh. Were you high on Kool-Aid when you wrote this?
It's gotta hurt being outed as a phony in front of the whole world, no doubt. If it's any consolation we already knew the United States was a complete fraud bought and paid for by the Likud and its toadies in the U.S.
In a monetary system, democracy is an illusion perpetuated to give the populace a feeling of participation in a so-called democratic process.
ttake itor u leave it, the arab nations & the middle east are the source of the problem in the universe today. kill at will all in the name of religion. palestine has always been a thorn in the flesh and need to be removed for peace to rain.
Peace Talks = (Israel) Buying Time = Building Illegal Settlements + Illegal Occupation = No Palestine = Nothing To Negotiate.
Hypocrites. They won't accept Israel's existence, but want the world to accept theirs. Fully and completely accept Israel, and then let's see how responsive the rest of the world will be to you.
Man... So the problem is Not that Israel commits crimes and protects murdering soldiers, but that Palestine could now sue them... So sad...
He has to veto,, there's nothing he can do. Israel has us by the b@lls!
People calling for a Palestinian state are ignorant of recent Middle Eastern History. But that's no surprise, most of the liberal hippies don't have a long term memory of anything exceeding 4 – 8 years.
When it comes to supporting Israel, US is behaving like a orthodox and fundamentalist Arab state. Like Islamic Fundamentalism, US religious and political support to Israel is Chiristian version of fundamentalism.
World will be better place without ugly politics and blindminded religion.
Entire civilized world must be ashamed of the fact that some people in this world are still allowed to be under occupation.US takes action against arab dictators to bring democracy.If US is really serious about supporting democracy around the world, US must take action against Israel in the first place. Because, Occupation is the worst form of Dictatorship.Occupation is the direct opposite of Democracy. Occupation is the biggest threat than terrorism.
Funtamentalist Jewish mindset is also like a funtamentalist Islamic mindset.
We do not need to blindmindedly support Israel Because we are chiristian. We do not need to support arabs Because we are arabs. It is time to leave our history and religion behind. It is time to stop being Muslim, Christian or Hindu. It is time to stop being american, german, arab or Israeli. Religion and politics are inhuman. It is time to be human.
Israel is the 27th wealthiest nation in the world per capita, just ahead of Italy, according to the International Monetary Fund. So why do Israel continue to receive $3 billion from the US taxpayer every year, a sum that some in congress including House Majority Leader Eric Cantor want to make a permanent untouchable subsidy through incorporation into the US defense budget rather than as part of the foreign aid package. What can possibly justify American taxpayers subsidizing the Israeli standard of living, which includes free medical care and university education, at a time when social programs in the US are being cut?
The Palestinian Authority has every right to put this forward and it should be ratified.Obama and Netanyahu have gone through the meaningless motions toward a two party state for ages with no results because they do not really want it plain and simple.These two have been in bed together for a long time and it's time Israel stopped sucing the teet and milking the U.S. dry,and its high time that both the U.S. and in particular Israel is held accountable for a number of highly questionable and heinous crimes against humanity.Stand tall Abbas.
All the US has to do is veto the proposal. obama is just trying to save political face with the Jewish voter for his anti-Israel stance. Don't believe anything this man says!
Once again the President of the United States votes against everything America claims to be. I'm Ashamed of my country today.
In the future, looking back, historians will find that Israel was the anchor that ran us in the ground. The ground realities are shifting faster than we can control with our interference. In the meantime we are held hostage by our AIPAC bribe addicted politicians. If not now, in the near future we will be forced to confront this volatile issue again. Once again we will be pitched against world opinion, by our spineless and subservient politicians, further damaging our position.
The fact that Netanyahu has blinked, says it all. This is a good move. Getting the GA seat will allow the ICC to move against BB for crimes against humanity.
When you go against the entire world in an idea there is a high chance that you are looking at the issue in an incorrect way. America should examine hard it's premises and conclusions of it's stances when it comes with the way it deals with Israel and Palestine.
If an independent state of Palestine should only be recognized through a peace settlement with Israel, then why did the U.S. recognize the independence of Kosovo three years ago, over the objections of Serbia? (Kosovo had ethnically cleansed Serbs from most of its territory, and threatened the security of Serbia and Macedonia.) Why recognize Kosovo but not Palestine?
100% true, I'm glad you made this link.
Obama stated in a June, 2009, Cairo speech to the Muslim world that he supported an independent Palestinian State. Has that changed? What is wrong with right now? Why wait? Who benefits by waiting?
The UN should recognize Palestine as its own sovereign state. Then, when they launch rockets/blow up a school bus/bomb a restaurant at/in Israel, Palestine has two options: 1) Stop the terrorists or 2) prepare to be totally annihilated in actual war. If they become a country, they'll actually have to accept responsibility for the violence and instability they cause. I can't wait for the day.
The problem is freeing a state does NOT mean war. What people don't understand is that when someone is sick and tired of fighting OVER NOTHING, they just want their own life back. Nobody really knows what is going on there except for the people who live there. Even if you have visited, you still would not know. This is like the Holocaust 2, why cannot anyone see that? Look at pictures and the people there, they are treated just as bad in the people of the Holocaust. Palestinians die there daily, and nobody cares! Well, you say you care, but why don't you do anything about it? I am sick of people saying "yeah, its sad" or "Well, look what they did to the US." They did nothing to the US. Why is everyone making this difficult. Another thing is that, the Israelis are the ones who came to the land and occupied it from the Palestinians, so that person who said, "The Palestinians can have their own land in the State of Jordan," think again. Facts or Fictions, Palestinians were their first.
Anyway, I hope President Obama keeps his word about unity, and I hope the UN see what is right in front of them, which is: A group of human beings just wanting to be able to walk out on the streets without living in free or having to be stopped every day just because the Israelis don't want them to pass to wherever they are going.
Poor people and poorer nations seldom get anything, that is not self serving, from wealthy nations. While the opportunity is ripe, the Palestinians should exercise the leverage that they seldom have. I am aware of all of the US media misinformation about Israeli and Palestinian conflicts; only Jimmy Carter will tell the truth. Israel needs to face reality, as we do also. Sometimes might, money and wealth, does not give advantage. It is time to get on board, as if this were a war or peace resolution; which in actuality it is.
One word – disgusting. Absolutely with agreement what the site councilforthenationalinterest dot org stated. Unfortunately, many of our politicians motivated by paycheck from AIPAC, which is not even represents interest on Israeli people but rich buddies of Mr. Perry & CO in Israel, we are motivated by victims of 9/11 and pictures of young soldiers who have killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. We need take our hijacked country back.
The US is so overwhelmed by the power and influence of the AIPAC lobby that it will never be able to be a fair broker. We have arrived at a point where it is as if the US is a province of Israel. Americans must understand the level of patience exhibited for the past 20 yrs by the Palestinians. As for the claim by the President that the US supports a 2 state solution, he should look at a map and ask himself just where that "state" will be with Israeli settlements turning that territory into a piece of moth eaten fabric with their settlements.
We should have ended support of all kinds to the U.N. long ago! Especially financial support. The Hell with the U.N. as it has not been what was conceived to be. It now is really in the hands of the third world who think the US owes them EVERYTHING! Let's close it up, period. Sell the land and building to realestate developers and stop this house of of terrorists. The city should not give any breaks to diplomats too. They park wherever they want to and if it was me, I would shoot dead the first diplomat that saysd, "You can't touch me, I have diplomatic immunity". The hell with these types! Just my humble opinion. Have a nice day.
Obama has lost his support , he has been on all sides of most issues, depending on the listeners and time. ONLY THE MOST RADICAL APOLOGISTS STILL SUPPORT HIM.
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David Ben-Gurion, first prime minister of Israel:
""""“If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti – Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?” """"
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We all live on stolen land.
Every single person on earth lives on land once (or rather several times) conquered by means of genocide or ethnic cleansing or both!
After some time (say one hundred years) reversing such an incident becomes the greater evil and status quo the lesser one- as the present Israel so sadly proves!
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Holocaust and Israel
Abused kids grow up into 2 categories:
- Those who hate abuse and stay away from it
- Those who become abusers themselves
If you think Israel belongs to the first group, you are blind and deaf to reality!
Fact is there is a hooligan in the neighborhood terrorizing everybody. Impossible to make him behave like a civilized person because he has gotten a mighty uncle that obstructs any attempts to correct the situation.
It is also a fact this thug was abused in his childhood and now has grown up to be a tera abuser himself.
Do you still wonder why the tug and his uncle are hated and despised by every one???
Dividing people on basis of religion is the worst thing ever happened to humanity.
Concept of "Christians supporting Christians, Muslims supporting Muslims" is ridiculous.
We, the human beings, must decide things on the moral basis of what is right. Unfortunately, US bond with Israel is based on blindminded religious fundamentalism combined with most selfish interest of sustaining US Military might in the region through Israel.
Both Israel and US don't care about the plight of people in Palestine. Because, They do not want a powerful Palestine that can compete with Israel. Israel wants to keep Palestine as a weak and powerless State without any military strength to confront Israel. If Israel can be created with UN mandate, Then Why not Palestine?
UN has every right to intervene and create a Palestine State. Both Israel and Palestinians will never reach agreement on their own.
Actually, Violence and Terrorism is very useful to Israel than Palestine. Because, ironically, Israel breeds on terrorism. Palestine non – violent struggle can really weaken Israeli position. They can adopt Gandhian Anna Hazare's tactics like fasting to win public support around the world to put pressure on America.
Several thousand rockets lobbed into Israel with Hama and Hezbollah's middle finger on them is non violent eh?? My neighbor is in for a hard time tonight...
Majority of the people in the world support Palestine statehood and are fed wp with US and Israeli Stand on this terrible conflict.
When the US prioritized the Israelis more than their own people, you know things are bad....
Americans don't know anything about the Middle East or the Palestinians. They only know how to kiss up to the Israelis because of all of the powerful zionist lobbies. They should stay out and Orin Hatch will definitely get his beak chopped off if he keeps yapping it.
I'm glad we hit Obama across the nose with a 2×4 before his speech at the general assembly.
The muslim world continues to push for the war of all wars which will end their own existence. All they do is instigate a war, start a war, get their A$$ stomped and then cry and play the victim card. The free world will put you psychotic muslims out of your misery soon enough. You really want war with the West and Israel?? Bring it little ragheads....your gonna need more than your invisible friend allah to save you when it all really goes down.