Here we go again. Crude oil prices have gone up by US$2.00 per barrel over the past 3 days.
Israel has now bombed Beirut’s suburbs.
The United States of Apathy, has yet again in the show of power, vetoed a UN Security Council’s resolution to ask Israel to halt its offensive in Gaza.
According to CNN, the proposal also demanded that Palestinian militants release the Israeli soldier abducted June 25 in a raid in Israel and stop launching rockets at Israel from Gaza. In addition, it called on Israel to release Palestinian government officials and lawmakers it took into custody after the soldier’s abduction.
Ten nations on the council voted in favor of the resolution, and four abstained.
John Bolton, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said that “in light of the fluid events on the ground,” the United States believed the Qatar-sponsored resolution was untimely and out of date, and would have helped inflame passions in the Middle East.
The Organization for Islamic Countries (Oh,I See!) has issued a statement as follows:
In the wake of the recent ravaging foray into Lebanon causing extensive damage and scores of deaths among innocent civilians as a result of the indiscriminate bombardment of Lebanese residential areas and civilian infrastructure installations, Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, Secretary-General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), strongly condemned the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, describing it as disproportionate, haughty, wanton, and perpetrated in total disregard of international humanitarian laws and civilized norms.
In this context, the Secretary-General has sent an urgent letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Anan, expressing deep concern and profound preoccupation at the alarming Israeli escalation.
He called on the UN Secretary-General to see the new Israeli assault for what it is, in the broad context of the root causes of the conflict in the Middle East, as an action that is of a nature to undermine and destroy all efforts so far exerted to find a peaceful and negotiated settlement to the Arab-Israeli conflict and the Palestinian plight, in particular.
The OIC Secretary-General also called on the UN Secretary-General to exhort the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), as the sole international organ entrusted with restoring peace and security in the world, to urgently intervene in order to stop the present escalation of killing and the blood-letting and move for the instauration of an immediate cease-fire.
Yes, tell that to the militants who are giving Islam a bad name, too!
There is one thing that people should learn, time and time again, that “an eye for an eye will soon make everyone blind.”
The Israelis should halt its offensives, the militants should release all Israeli hostages, and the all-impotent OIC should send in its peacekeeping troops to the Middle East instead of looking as usual saying, “Oh, I see!”.
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