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UN Cease Fire
By Micah Halpern

Monday January 12, 2009

I've Been Thinking:

Much has been said about the UN Security Council's resolution for a cease fire in Gaza. The vote for the cease fire was 14 - 0.
In a surprise move, the United States abstained.

Why did the United States abstain?
US Secretary of State Condi Rice was part of the process in drafting the resolution.
The reason the US abstained was because President Bush got a last minute call from the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert pointing out the flaws in the resolution that the United States helped draft.

The resolution is deeply flawed.
Rice was off base in helping to develop and draft the language of the resolution. The nine short clauses of the resolution never once mention Hamas.
One clause actually speaks about Israeli Palestinian peace.
Despite the wishes of the Arab foreign ministers involved in drafting the resolution neither does it mention condemnation of Israel.

Here's what it does say: Article 8. calls for renewed and urgent efforts by the parties and the international community to achieve a comprehensive peace based on the vision of a region where two democratic states, Israel and Palestine, live side by side in peace with secure and recognized borders, as envisaged in Security Council resolution 1850 (2008), and recalls also the importance of the Arab Peace Initiative;

Folding the Palestinian/Israel peace process into the Hamas conflict with Israel legitimizes Hamas, it de facto takes Hamas to a whole new level.

The Israeli operation is not about peace with the Palestinians, it is about a terror group in Gaza shooting rockets at Israel.
Why would the US initiate such a new elevated status? They wouldn't. That's why they abstained on their own resolution

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