It's time for the U.N. to impose tough sanctions on Israel

It's time for the United Nations to shed its impotency and impose tough sanctions on Israel. That would be the least the United Nations could do after sitting silently for years through a "peace process" that Israel has used as a cover to grab Palestinian land. Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
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by Dwight Rousu - Jan. 19, 2009

Quigley gets most of the picture correct. Though he ties UN inaction to US influences, he still seems to suggest the UN could act anyway despite the U.S. Realistic advocacy should also advocate "change" in the US lockstep with right wing reactionary forces in Israel.

A check on wikipedia on the six day war shows that in 1967 Egypt was massed on the Israeli border, but then Israel launched a pre-emptive attack that wiped them out. Aggressive war? Probably. Justifiable? Everything can be justified on some basis. This dispute of blame should not be a major distraction from the opinion piece.

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