The toman diaries

Hasty meeting in the UN

mandag, oktober 06, 2003

The UN security council has gathered to discuss Israels blasting of what appears to be an abandoned PFLP - General Command camp in Syria.
According to an [official] anonymous source, the camp is today generally nothing but a refuge to Palestinians.

The meeting, called upon by Syria, was wittily compared to by the Israeli delegation as, "If Usama bin Laden should have called upon the UN after september the eleventh."

So, what can I say? Israel is, by the face of it, desperate to label everything even close to being an obstackle a terrorist. If the US wasn't on UN's security council, I'm sure they would've called even the UN a terrorist.
But why do they continue their war of words, in this manner? Either they are stupid enough not to realize that the test of the world doesn't think of it like this, or they are too preoccupied with the falling hawks of the Bush-administration. Just think about it - has there ever been more violence from the Israeli side than after G.W. Bush became president?
I think not. I know Israelis better than that. They are not stupid.