Israel to UN: Get lost
posted at 1:45 pm on January 9, 2009 by Ed Morrissey
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Israel has rejected a call from the UN Security Council for a cease fire, stating that they plan on continuing operations until their mission is complete. Hamas also rejected the UNSC call, stating that only an unconditional end to the blockade would satisfy them. Meanwhile, both sides traded fire as thousands of Israeli reservists began their deployment:
Israel’s government says it will press ahead with its offensive in the Gaza Strip despite a U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a cease-fire.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s office says the military “will continue acting to protect Israeli citizens and will carry out the missions it was given.”
The statement says Palestinian rocket fire Friday shows the Security Council’s call for a cease-fire “is not practical.”
Both sides gave their reasons for continuing the war:
Israel’s government says any cease-fire must guarantee an end to rocket fire and arms smuggling into Gaza. During a six-month cease-fire that ended with the current operation, Hamas is thought to have used tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border to smuggle in the medium-range rockets it is now using to hit deeper than ever inside Israel.
Hamas has said it won’t accept any agreement that does not include the full opening Gaza’s blockaded border crossings. Israel is unlikely to agree to that demand, as it would allow Hamas to strengthen its hold on the territory which it violently seized in June 2007.
Israel is unlikely to agree to that demand because Hamas keeps smuggling rockets and missiles into Gaza, and launching them into Israeli population centers. The IDF went after a number of the smuggling tunnels going into Egypt for the explicit purpose of shutting down those lines of communication for Hamas. Besides, even Egypt knows better than to open the Gaza border; they don’t want Hamas in Egypt any more than Israel wants them in Gaza.
The Israelis will not stop this time until the rockets and missiles stop, and not until they can be certain that Hamas can’t be resupplied. As long as Hamas has power in Gaza, the Israelis can’t open the borders, and neither can Egypt. As long as Hamas and Islamic Jihad rain fire down on Israel’s citizens, those citizens will rightfully demand that their government protect them from outside attack. That’s the primary function of any government, and any state that fails to act under those conditions fails at statehood altogether.
If the UN can’t muster up enough testicular fortitude to confront the Hamas problem and its chief sponsors, Iran and Syria, they’d do better to keep silent and let the Israelis take care of business.
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Go Yids!
LimeyGeek on January 9, 2009 at 1:46 PM
Israel to U.N. what U.N. usually to Israel “Get lost”.
Entelechy on January 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM
LOL
Ed, are you trying to give our Saint O an aneurysm? These non-stop Israel posts have to be his undoing…..
mjk to UN: please listen to the Israelis. Again, don’t you have some women/children in Africa to violate?
mjk to Israel: keep taking care o’ business, you crazy Jews! Love you!!!
mjk on January 9, 2009 at 1:49 PM
The UN did NOTHING to reign in Hezbollah after the 2006 cease fire, Israel would be foolish to trust the UN to police Hamas.
Might as well just ask Iran to do it, you’d get pretty much the same result.
The UN is less than useless, every dollar going to it causes more problems.
NoDonkey on January 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM
Haha, stupid UN. Thank G-d Israel has the fortitude this time around. Crush HAMAS.
Lance Murdock on January 9, 2009 at 1:50 PM
This isn’t good enough. Israel needs to LEAVE the UN. Period.
No thinking person can support the idea of an empowered, peerless, competitionless entity. The UN must be dissolved.
progressoverpeace on January 9, 2009 at 1:51 PM
I guess you haven’t heard. Hot Air resident anti-Semite is no more.
From Buchanan is a Nazi thread:
Lance Murdock on January 9, 2009 at 1:51 PM
Amen. The US can precipitate this by leaving it and stopping all funding. Kick the f’ers out of NY too.
LimeyGeek on January 9, 2009 at 1:52 PM
The US should pull all funding for the UN.
KIck out all the wankers.
Turn the UN into low income housing.
Jimmy Carter can collect the rent.
izoneguy on January 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM
No I hadn’t. Thank the good Lord above!!!
mjk on January 9, 2009 at 1:54 PM
Are you kidding? Nutty McOlaf is banned? Awww…he/she/it was fun
LimeyGeek on January 9, 2009 at 1:55 PM
Good for them. Frankly, Israel should ignore not only the UN but also the US State Department. I am very concerned that Condi will cook up another disasterous cease fire, like she did in 05 with Israel v. Hezbollah.
james23 on January 9, 2009 at 1:56 PM
HA! The UN is ruled by the “cheif sponsors”!
Breaking news…St.O, the jew hater is GONE from HA!
FIFY
beththebaker on January 9, 2009 at 1:56 PM
Israel should not stop until Hamas is neutered,beaten down,and defeated.Victory over Hamas is the best deterrent to further attacks from Iran’s proxies and other nations bent on there destruction:
Dan Diker: A deterrent restored?
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January 9, 2009 Posted by Scott at 7:39 AM
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/01/022505.php
Why should Israel stop if it is winning?
The UN and their supporters of appeasement to the jihadist would love nothing more than to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
Baxter Greene on January 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Wow, Israel said no to Olaf being banned. Good Days!
upinak on January 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM
AMEN!
right2bright on January 9, 2009 at 1:57 PM
Agreed, however … with the upcoming Obama administration methinks the UN will become more powerful than ever. Obama is keen to become a “world citizen” at the expense of our sovereignty.
darwin on January 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM
That we didn’t do this after the UN f#cked us over going into the Iraq War was one of the biggest mistakes Bush made – especially after he had threatened to leave. But … the Bushes, for whatever reason, think that world government is a sensible prospect.
Yep. Back whent he UN threatened to leave NY, Rudy told them not to let the door hit them on the way out. I love Rudy.
progressoverpeace on January 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Israel to Hamas: I’d hit it.
lorien1973 on January 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM
FIFY
beththebaker on January 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM
Word.
If Israel continues with its current mission (which its reponse suggests it will) only good things can come. Israel’s continual problem is that international pressure usually stops them from doing what must be done to ensure their security. The fact that Hezbollah doesn’t seem inclined to open up a second front and the U.S. not pushing Israel too hard towards a cease-fire are also good.
BadgerHawk on January 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Don’t just get lost,…SUCK UP AND BUST!!!
GO ISRAEL!!!
You are in my prayers!
christene on January 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM
We, the USA, should tell the UN to get lost? Go move somewhere else (e.g., Tehran, Somolia, Moscow, Mecca). Get Mayor Bloomberg on board by telling him the UN is gone more property taxes are to be had.
WashJeff on January 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM
Drywall, Poptech (and a couple of others) are now re-thinking their strategy…
right2bright on January 9, 2009 at 1:59 PM
The best part of the this whole situation is that Israel might actually allow itself to crush HAMAS and Kadima will still lose to Likud. Win-win.
Lance Murdock on January 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM
No doubt. It’s going to be very ugly. I am hoping that there is still enough of America left in America to reject this idiocy that is coming down the pike … but, then again, the idiot messiah from Indonesia was elected by “Americans”.
Well, there are still the eligibility cases floating around the SCOTUS … just in case.
progressoverpeace on January 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM
I guess the anti-Mormonism wasn’t enough. What was Olaf, anyway? Catholic? Lutheran?
And why would Allahpundit care?
BigD on January 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM
Team Israel.
patriette on January 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Did Israel just tell the UN to go hide in the basement with the other children? Sweet!
Kid from Brooklyn on January 9, 2009 at 2:04 PM
Good for Israel.
And I bet if the US were to take our UN dues and spread it directly to the world’s poor, (food & medical aid programs, run by the US) it would do 10 times more good.
rbj on January 9, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Yeah well, the very real prospect of blue helmets manning Hamas missile posts firing at Israel should have a real dampening effect on any kind of UN brokered agreement.
Speakup on January 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Hey, I’d say Israel is definitely making progress. A few years ago, the argument was “how do we stop these extremely deadly suicide bombings?”
Now the argument is “how do we stop these less deadly rocket attacks?”
Seems they are making headway.
jimmy the notable on January 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM
Good move Israel! The UN is more irrelevant today than ever before. The third world thugs now running it, will likely drive it out of existence. It’s a shame that BHO thinks they are viable at all. He’s what, in his forties, and is still an idealist. I hope hia new job doesn’t chew him up.
GFW on January 9, 2009 at 2:07 PM
He was pretty much claiming that all violence is wrong in any form. He claimed that he “did research” and that we were all stupid. He also called Judaism a “satanic cult.” He definitely wasn’t Catholic.
jimmy the notable on January 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Let the UN clean up after the war is over, it the only thing they are good at.
grapeknutz on January 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM
Does it matter?
upinak on January 9, 2009 at 2:08 PM
This has been a shameful day for the Bush Administration and Condi Rice. How dare they abstain on this Resolution instead of vetoing it? How dare Condi Rice call this rancid resolution a roadmap to peace in Gaza when it specifically excludes all mention of Hamass and its sole responsibility for the current war? Rice can’t get out of the State Department quick enough to suit me. I thought I would never utter those words, but there you go.
eaglewingz08 on January 9, 2009 at 2:09 PM
It’s time for Israel to tell the UN to GTFO.
It’s also time for NY (and the US) to tell the UN to GTFO.
I just wish we could tell Obama to shape up or GTFO.
Chaz706 on January 9, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Even though Hamas rejected the truce, most international headlines are that Israel rejected it.
Blake on January 9, 2009 at 2:14 PM
Israel to U.N. with a Philly/NY attitude:
“Resolution? Fuggeddaboutit. Resolution? Reso-phuggin-lution? Yeah, we got your resolution right heeeah, it’s right heeeah! We call it ‘Resolution F-16′! Now get the phuq outta heeeeah!”
Tony737 on January 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM
And raping and pillaging…then there really would be a humanitarian crisis in GAZA!
beththebaker on January 9, 2009 at 2:16 PM
I was more saying Word to Olaf being banned. I don’t get to read as many comments sections as I used to, so I missed that bit of news. Israel allowing itself to crush Hamas would of course also be cool.
BadgerHawk on January 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM
Mr. Olaf is/was Eastern Orthodox.
It already is.
mankai on January 9, 2009 at 2:19 PM
IDF Rules! I’d join, if I were young enough and Jewish(although I don’t think that’s a requirement.)
FREE ISRAEL!!
BoomJunkie on January 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM
They need to hunt down and kill the leaders on the field. No capture, no trial, make stories up about them trying to escape. Executed like dogs. That is the message that will resonate to all the other rabid dogs pretending to be leaders in Iran, Hezbollah, Syria etc.
After the leaders are executed they can agree to a truce with the warning to the new leaders–the same awaits you if you don’t recognize us and sue for real peace.
Top down is the road to peace in the 21st century. Personal accountability, not allowing them to pawn it off on the toothless peasant in the corner.
patrick neid on January 9, 2009 at 2:20 PM
It is hoped that the United States will now follow suit and tell the UN where to go…. I sure do miss John Bolton!
MNDavenotPC on January 9, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Screw the UN, they are worthless.
mindhacker on January 9, 2009 at 2:21 PM
Well, looking back at the original thread that got him banned, it seems I am not the only one who asked.
What’s the matter, upinak? Dateless for tomorrow night and out of sorts today?
BigD on January 9, 2009 at 2:23 PM
Good on ‘em. Now they have to keep at it until Hamas is crumbling and then call a unilateral ceasefire. They blew it both militarily and diplomatically in 2006, and I worry that with Livni still as FM, she’ll agree to another boneheaded ceasefire that impedes Israel’s ability to defend itself. I hope hope hope that they’ve finally absorbed the fact that they can’t count on the UN or the EU to protect them.
ProfessorMiao on January 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM
+1
wccawa on January 9, 2009 at 2:24 PM
Rice has been a disaster, but I don’t expect – and fear much worse – from an Obama administration.
ProfessorMiao on January 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM
Very true. And the idiot messiah’s Rice is even worse than Bush’s Rice.
progressoverpeace on January 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM
Go for it Israel, you have every right to defend your citizens against the rop. God be with you.
L
letget on January 9, 2009 at 2:30 PM
By golly, I think they’re serious this time. Listening to the UN has gotten them nothing more than 2 more years of rocket attacks and empty promises and condemnation. It’s about time they tell the UN to go suck an egg.
scalleywag on January 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM
I guess the anti-Mormonism wasn’t enough. What was Olaf, anyway? Catholic? Lutheran?
BigD on January 9, 2009 at 2:03 PM
He claimed Norwegian ancestry, which would indicate Lutheran, but he seemed to be off any religious norm.
Antisemite and fellow off-the-norm Vidkun Quisling claimed to start his own bizarre religion called “Universalism”. Then the good people of Norway shot him..
Finally, I want to apologize to all for publicly criticising that lutefisk I ate up in Minot last year. I got kind of carried away last night in the middle of a battle with Olaf.
TexasJew on January 9, 2009 at 2:36 PM
The UN is like gun control, the crime rate goes up because it only effects the law abiding.
There’s no reason for Israel to stop smashing Hamas because any UN ceasefire will have zero effect on anybody who wants Jews dead.
Speakup on January 9, 2009 at 2:37 PM
Gotcha, well I like to think of myself as more as an observer rather than an active commentator too. When it came to Olaf’s rants, I just brushed right over them. I wasn’t going to waste my time and energy on that lunatic.
Lance Murdock on January 9, 2009 at 2:38 PM
Go get ‘em, Tiger!
tree hugging sister on January 9, 2009 at 2:41 PM
upinak
How’s your global warming experience?
It was -60 wind chill in Medora three weeks ago, and it must be worse up there in your neck of the woods.
TexasJew on January 9, 2009 at 2:42 PM
Wow! Meatloaf got banned?
About time. That was a long line of hateful stuff.
wccawa on January 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM
Don’t forget Gilad Shalit _ I suspect the A-rabs might murder him.
Hilts on January 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM
About friggin’ time!
Hilts on January 9, 2009 at 2:44 PM
Israel should get the Nobel Peace Prize for the magnificent restraint they exercise in the face of relentless genocidal attacks. But no, it will probably go to Hugo Chavez for his oil-for-fellatio program.
whitetop on January 9, 2009 at 2:50 PM
If this operation ends without Gilad returning home, than I would consider this mission a failure.
Lance Murdock on January 9, 2009 at 2:54 PM
Until the UN gets out of our Country, they will try to also run us. Israel is right to tell them where to go. Don’t quit Israel! Keep cleaning out that mess!
sheebe on January 9, 2009 at 3:01 PM
Never in my life would I have thought I would cheer the death of anyone. 9/11 changed that. When Tora Bora was being hit, I was shouting NUKE them bastards. Same with Hamas and all terroist, it’s them or us and I rather it be them.
calgrammy on January 9, 2009 at 3:12 PM
my mother was a john bircher. so you can imagine my opinion of the UN. get us out! or put john bolton in charge.
kelley in virginia on January 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM
I abhor, loathe, despise, detest, hate the UN.
beachgirlusa on January 9, 2009 at 4:06 PM
Hit it!
apollyonbob on January 9, 2009 at 4:10 PM
The Jews have gone crazy
Opps, some one miscalculated on this one! And guess what, Fatah is not coming to rescue Hamas.
Mr. Joe on January 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM
Well said.
PersonalLiberty on January 9, 2009 at 4:40 PM
One of my hopes and desire for change is that the United Nations is dissolved. Lacking that instead of spending hundreds of millions on restoring the UN Building, maybe they could build a new site perhaps in Somalia.
Dasher on January 9, 2009 at 4:51 PM
+1
Another one of FDR’s abhorred legacies.
fiscallyconservative on January 9, 2009 at 4:54 PM
Long walk, short pier.
Y-not on January 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM
About the only good idea McCain had was for us to leave the UN and form a league of democracies. Forget our so-called traditional allies but for sure it should include all of eastern Europe and every country that fought with us in Iraq. And, of course, the state of Israel.
The UN is a festering sore on the East River. How about an extreme makeover and we get to fire Qassam rockets at it???
J.J. Sefton on January 9, 2009 at 5:38 PM
It’s about time. Good move, Is.
JustTruth101 on January 9, 2009 at 6:27 PM
I hope the IDF keeps going and lives the whole area a vast wasteland. If the Palestinians are dumb enough to have Hamas as their political voice and “protector”, then they can bear the consequences.
GarandFan on January 9, 2009 at 6:37 PM
The United Goof-Balls should move their headquarters to say, Jerusalem, Israel. Just imagine being there, eating lunch at your favorite short order, and then have it interrupted by Abdul deciding to blow his sorry ass up. The hands on experience would be priceless. Then and only then, will these great world debaters understand the complexities of what Israel has to deal with. Until then, they’re in their safe, heated and air conditioned offices, in one of the largest cities and with the best restaurants in the world. /Sarc
byteshredder on January 9, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Geez Ed.
Do you really think “testicular fortitude” is a polite version of “balls”? As opposed to, say, a sarcastic slam on mincing PC niceties? If you want to say balls, have the balls to say balls. Sheesh.
JM Hanes on January 9, 2009 at 11:21 PM
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