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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I also disagree with Bush and Bolton and Israel's one-way-ness about the whole thing. For Israel, it's a matter of survival, and that puts them in a fairly unilateral spot. I can understand that. I don't understand why the US has to be so blindly unilateral with them.
IMO, Israel did some things during the recent conflagration that were morally questionable, and I'm not against holding them to account for that. So in that sense, I'm not for the veto.
Look--that we vetoed something speaks to exactly the arrogance and jingoism I'm talking about. There's no interest on Bolton's part to build consensus, to come up with solutions that people can agree on....
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Here is where I agree with Bolton when he said:
“For 50 years on a bipartisan basis, we have tried to keep the UN out of the Middle East conflict because it is not an honest broker....
The UN is overwhelming anti-Israel and US support of resolutions that condemn Israel (when they deserve to be condemned) would only provide incentive for some countries to act on those anti-Israel sentiments.
The Isreal-Palestinian issue is best left to direct diplomacy as has been our policy for 50 years, where we can pressure Israel without weakening them in the eyes of their arab neighbors.