Bush Endorsement of Sharon Proposal Undermines Peace and International Law

[reprehensor]

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0415-14.htm

President George W. Bush's unconditional endorsement of right-wing Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan constitutes a shocking reversal of longstanding U.S. Middle East policy and one of the most flagrant challenges to international law and the integrity of the United Nations system ever made by a U.S. president.

By giving unprecedented backing for Israeli plans to annex large swaths of occupied Palestinian territories in the West Bank in order to incorporate illegal Jewish settlements, President Bush has effectively renounced UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, which call on Israel - in return for security guarantees from its Arab neighbors - to withdraw from Palestinian territories seized in the June 1967 war.

All previous U.S. administrations of both parties had seen these resolutions as the basis for Arab-Israeli peace.

These Israeli settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, which deem it illegal for any country to transfer civilian population onto territories seized by military force. UN Security Council resolutions 446, 455, 465 and 471 call on Israel to remove its colonists from the occupied territories.

President Bush, however, has unilaterally determined that Sharon's Israel, unlike Saddam's Iraq, need not abide by UN Security Council resolutions.

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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Is there any way that we can possibly re-elect Bill Clinton

A friend of mine asked me this a few weeks ago, but I can think of no precedent. He had a commitment to peace in this region. Bush* has no commitment to peace in this region, nor for Americans, for that matter.

[number6]

2. sure does...

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[Rhiannon12866]

3. Absolutely. The American people need to say something

about this, for once. Bush* has done absolutely nothing about this in three and a half years. It is unconscionable.