Carte Blanche for Terrorism. The UN has endorsed a document that condones the use of violence and "all available means, including armed struggle" to establish a Palestinian state.[National Post] The thing that worries me most about this document is that they have accused Israel of human rights violations and yet have not condemned the use of terrorism to achieve the goal that they are supporting. I wonder how different their view point would be if this was happening in their countries, if terrorists were infiltrating their towns, cafés and marketplaces. What do you think their viewpoint would be then?
[[Hugin]] And that's the big issue with the statement, not about the need for a Palestinian state, but that there is no condemnation of the methods that are being used by some Palestinians and by that absence they condone it.
Posted by munin at April 16, 2002 10:59 AM