Why does every nation but Israel have to abide by UN resolutions?

[cantstandbush]

Calling for Lebanon to abide by UN resolution when Israel is in violation of several seems really outrageous to me. Bulldozzing, stated state policy of assassination, cutting people off from water, food, and work, bombing ambulances, bombing a family on a beach, and now taking an Arab new chief prisoner...can no one find an international violation among these despicable acts?

[Dresden]

1. Here's a short list.....

1955-1992


* * Resolution 106: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for Gaza raid".
* * Resolution 111: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for raid on Syria that killed fifty-six people".
* * Resolution 127: " . . . 'recommends' Israel suspends it's 'no-man's zone' in Jerusalem".
* * Resolution 162: " . . . 'urges' Israel to comply with UN decisions".
* * Resolution 171: " . . . determines flagrant violations' by Israel in its attack on Syria".
* * Resolution 228: " . . . 'censures' Israel for its attack on Samu in the West Bank, then under Jordanian control".
* * Resolution 237: " . . . 'urges' Israel to allow return of new 1967 Palestinian refugees".
* * Resolution 248: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for its massive attack on Karameh in Jordan".
* * Resolution 250: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to refrain from holding military parade in Jerusalem".
* * Resolution 251: " . . . 'deeply deplores' Israeli military parade in Jerusalem in defiance of Resolution 250".
* * Resolution 252: " . . . 'declares invalid' Israel's acts to unify Jerusalem as Jewish capital".
* * Resolution 256: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli raids on Jordan as 'flagrant violation".
* * Resolution 259: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to accept UN mission to probe occupation".
* * Resolution 262: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for attack on Beirut airport".
* * Resolution 265: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks for Salt in Jordan".
* * Resolution 267: " . . . 'censures' Israel for administrative acts to change the status of Jerusalem".
* *Resolution 270: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for air attacks on villages in southern Lebanon".
* * Resolution 271: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's failure to obey UN resolutions on Jerusalem".
* * Resolution 279: " . . . 'demands' withdrawal of Israeli forces from Lebanon".
* * Resolution 280: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli's attacks against Lebanon".
* * Resolution 285: " . . . 'demands' immediate Israeli withdrawal form Lebanon".
* * Resolution 298: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's changing of the status of Jerusalem".
* * Resolution 313: " . . . 'demands' that Israel stop attacks against Lebanon".
* * Resolution 316: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for repeated attacks on Lebanon".
* * Resolution 317: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to release Arabs abducted in Lebanon".
* * Resolution 332: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's repeated attacks against Lebanon".
* * Resolution 337: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violating Lebanon's sovereignty".
* * Resolution 347: " . . . 'condemns' Israeli attacks on Lebanon".
* * Resolution 425: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* * Resolution 427: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to complete its withdrawal from Lebanon.
* * Resolution 444: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's lack of cooperation with UN peacekeeping forces".
* * Resolution 446: " . . . 'determines' that Israeli settlements are a 'serious
* obstruction' to peace and calls on Israel to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* * Resolution 450: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacking Lebanon".
* * Resolution 452: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to cease building settlements in occupied territories".
* * Resolution 465: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's settlements and asks all member
* states not to assist Israel's settlements program".
* * Resolution 467: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's military intervention in Lebanon".
* * Resolution 468: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to rescind illegal expulsions of
* two Palestinian mayors and a judge and to facilitate their return".
* * Resolution 469: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's failure to observe the
* council's order not to deport Palestinians".
* * Resolution 471: " . . . 'expresses deep concern' at Israel's failure to abide
* by the Fourth Geneva Convention".
* * Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".
* * Resolution 478: " . . . 'censures (Israel) in the strongest terms' for its
* claim to Jerusalem in its 'Basic Law'".
* * Resolution 484: " . . . 'declares it imperative' that Israel re-admit two deported
* Palestinian mayors".
* * Resolution 487: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel for its attack on Iraq's
* nuclear facility".
* * Resolution 497: " . . . 'decides' that Israel's annexation of Syria's Golan
* Heights is 'null and void' and demands that Israel rescinds its decision forthwith".
* * Resolution 498: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to withdraw from Lebanon".
* * Resolution 501: " . . . 'calls' on Israel to stop attacks against Lebanon and withdraw its troops".
* * Resolution 509: " . . . 'demands' that Israel withdraw its forces forthwith and unconditionally from Lebanon".
* * Resolution 515: " . . . 'demands' that Israel lift its siege of Beirut and
* allow food supplies to be brought in".
* * Resolution 517: " . . . 'censures' Israel for failing to obey UN resolutions
* and demands that Israel withdraw its forces from Lebanon".
* * Resolution 518: " . . . 'demands' that Israel cooperate fully with UN forces in Lebanon".
* * Resolution 520: " . . . 'condemns' Israel's attack into West Beirut".
* * Resolution 573: " . . . 'condemns' Israel 'vigorously' for bombing Tunisia
* in attack on PLO headquarters.
* * Resolution 587: " . . . 'takes note' of previous calls on Israel to withdraw
* its forces from Lebanon and urges all parties to withdraw".
* * Resolution 592: " . . . 'strongly deplores' the killing of Palestinian students
* at Bir Zeit University by Israeli troops".
* * Resolution 605: " . . . 'strongly deplores' Israel's policies and practices
* denying the human rights of Palestinians.
* * Resolution 607: " . . . 'calls' on Israel not to deport Palestinians and strongly
* requests it to abide by the Fourth Geneva Convention.
* * Resolution 608: " . . . 'deeply regrets' that Israel has defied the United Nations and deported Palestinian civilians".
* * Resolution 636: " . . . 'deeply regrets' Israeli deportation of Palestinian civilians.
* * Resolution 641: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's continuing deportation of Palestinians.
* * Resolution 672: " . . . 'condemns' Israel for violence against Palestinians
* at the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount.
* * Resolution 673: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's refusal to cooperate with the United
* Nations.
* * Resolution 681: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's resumption of the deportation of
* Palestinians.
* * Resolution 694: " . . . 'deplores' Israel's deportation of Palestinians and
* calls on it to ensure their safe and immediate return.
* * Resolution 726: " . . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of Palestinians.
* * Resolution 799: ". . . 'strongly condemns' Israel's deportation of 413 Palestinians
* and calls for there immediate return.

http://www.action-for-un-renewal.org.uk/pages/isreal_un_resolutions.htm

[magellan]

7. Good Lord, that is indecently impressive!!

This one stunned me:

* * Resolution 476: " . . . 'reiterates' that Israel's claim to Jerusalem are 'null and void'".

REALLY? And what was done about it? Or was the result the partitioning?

[Dresden]

10. I honestly don't know....

what I do know is that Israel has disregarded every single one of them and has continued to do so whenever faced with a resolution made against it.

[magellan]

15. Thank you, Dresden

I'll do a little research on it and get back in that case. I'd like to know the answer.

In the meantime, welcome to DU. Stunning post.

[stop the bleeding]

11. welcome to DU Dresden

and thank you for the list.


"impressive most impressive"

[mzteris]

17. I think I've seen

this list before..... somewhere.....

:hi:

[hack89]

23. Much of it is a reflection of the Cold War ...

a bloc of arab countries would routinely condemn Israel and the Soviet bloc and China would add their votes to pass the resolution.

Until the fall of the Soviet Union, the cold war was frequently fought in proxy in the UN. Look at all the non-democratic regimes that populate the UN and it becomes how ludicrous it is to believe that the UN was ever motivated by moral beliefs.

[Pachamama]

2. Its a question I've been asking myself for years...How is it that Israel

can constantly be in violation of UN resolutions, be occupiers of sovereign soil, commit human rights atrocities, attack an another nation pre-emtively etc. without so much as a peep from the US and most of the International community when if any other Nation did this, there would be worldwide outrage.

I have been to Israel. I have Palestinian and Israeli friends and I believe that both have a right to a homeland/nation. I believe that there can be peace but unfortunately both sides are being governed by those that either don't want peace or have a different idea of what that means.

I am sick by what is happening and I pray it stops, but sadly, we all know there is little chance of that happening given the forces behind all this.

Therefore, don't count on the US denouncing Israel and if anything, they are excited by this development in this region....

[sinkingfeeling]

18. The US and Israel are above the UN. Why, I bet 99.5% of all Americans

don't know that the UN General Assembly passed a resolution against the US invasion of Iraq in 2003! Most of the UN resolutions against Israel are also limited to the General Assembly, since the US has consistently vetoed all resolutions against Israel at the Security Council level.

[acmavm]

3. They're special???

[WinkyDink]

4. I think the Arab nations broke THAT little restraint back in their

attack on Israel in 1948, don't you?

[madrchsod]

5. don`t ask--they are our best friends in the world

[liberalhistorian]

6. Because it's Israel and they can do whatever

the hell they want, and with weapons, ammunition and military equipment that OUR money pays for. And anyone who dares criticize them is anti-semitic. Pretty frustrating and disgusting, huh?

[pitohui]

8. does usa abide by un resolutions?

i'm not impressed that we do

[malaise]

9. The US vetoes them n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

13. No n/t

[leftchick]

12. because they are special?

God's chosen ones? That is all I can figure. It is infuriating isn't it?

[Norquist Nemesis]

14. Israel knows the U.S. will always veto any resolutions on them

Something about blind faith in their ally...

[longship]

16. Because the US will veto every single time.

nt

[genie_weenie]

19. This is bull. Your hyperbole is bull. The UN is a toothless dog.

Can you point out any UN resolutions made against any strong nations which were upheld or had a coalition cobbled together to deal with?

Did anything happen to China for Tienanmen Square?

Did Turkey get into any trouble for their treatment of the Kurds over the last 60 years of UN existence?

Have UN resolutions stopped the India/Pakistan fighting over the Kashmir?

Have UN resolutions decided the issue of the Spratly Islands?

Has the UN done anything in regards to the Civil War in the Philippines?

How good was the UN during the Indonesia Tsunami?

Did the UN effectively deal with the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, and after the USSR pulled out in 1989 the Civil War and mines which killed and maimed millions?

Has the UN dealt with the Sudan?

What good was the UN with the Killing Fields of Cambodia?

What good was the UN when the US was blowing the Shit out of the Vietnamese? Or when France was doing it?

Quit acting like UN resolutions are abided to and enforced. The UN only serves to enforce the will of the Great Powers when that Power feels like doing something overseas.

[Igel]

20. I find the last item to be interesting.

The claim is that the AJ crew was providing a live feed that would assist in targeting. I can see how it could assist; I'm agnostic on whether it was intentional, and if it would assist. (I'm ignorant of how well those missiles can be aimed, in part.)

If it was intentional on the part of the film crew, there's no violation: in fact, it means they were spies.

[Solo_in_MD]

21. And could be shot as such

Geraldo did this as have others. There was a spat on Nightline when the SCUDs were being shot at Israel. Israel did the right thing...gave them the benefit of the doubt about spying but shut them down. They may kick those individuals out of the country as well if they are foreign nationals.

Seems reasonable under the circumstances.

[KurtNYC]

22. You mean like UN resolution 1559?

Plenty of UN resolutions get ignored.

[Lithos]

24. Locking per I/P guidelines

Not based on a recent news or op-ed article

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