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		Members of the UN Security Council discussing conditions in the Middle East during a meeting on Thursday. (AP)

Last update - 00:00 11/11/2006

Hamas: U.S. veto of UN draft resolution backs further 'massacres'

By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies

The Hamas-led Palestinian government said on Saturday that the United States' veto of a UN Security Council resolution condemning the Israel Defense Forces shelling in Beit Hanun that killed 20 Palestinians on Wednesday showed the U.S. backed Israel's action.

Ghazi Hamad, the Palestinian cabinet spokesman, said the veto was "a signal that the U.S. had given legitimacy to the massacres and a green light to (Israel) to ... carry out more massacres."

The Arab League likewise strongly criticized the U.S. for vetoing the resolution.

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Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa voiced his "surprise and disappointment" at the United States for vetoing the draft resolution.

"This veto will only increase the anger," Moussa said in a statement issued by his office in Cairo.

"It is inexplicable that a veto can be used to protect Israeli actions against civilians," he said.

10 of the council's 15 members voted for the measure, while Britain, Denmark, Japan and Slovakia abstained.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN John Bolton said the draft resolution, which also called for a quick withdrawal of IDF troops from the Gaza Strip, was "biased against Israel and politically motivated."

"This resolution does not display an evenhanded characterization of the recent events in Gaza, nor does it advance the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace to which we aspire and for which we are working assiduously," he told the Security Council.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the draft resolution would have aggravated the situation in Gaza because it contained "inflammatory and unnecessary language."

"We do not believe the resolution was designed to contribute to the cause of peace," she said in a statement.

In Jerusalem, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev said the draft resolution was one-sided. "It's good that it wasn't accepted by the Security Council," he said.

The resolution, proposed by Qatar, originally called for an "immediate investigation into the massacre that took place in Beit Hanun" and for Israel to "cease all violence against the civilian population in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem."

The draft also demanded the deployment of UN observers in the area to oversee the implementation of the cease-fire outlined in the draft.

The Qatari delegation re-worded the proposal following objections raised to the first draft.

In the new version, the statement no longer called the shelling a "massacre," nor demanded the deployment of UN observers.

In place of observers, the new resolution called for an "international mechanism" to be deployed in Gaza to protect the civilian population.

Instead of demanding the formation of a panel of inquiry, the new proposal called for the formation of a fact-finding team.

The new resolution also included a demand that Israel withdraw its soldiers from the Gaza Strip, and a condemnation of Qassam rockets fired into Israel. Still, it did not demand the release of soldier Gilad Shalit, kidnapped in June, Army Radio reported.

The resolution also urged the international community to work to end the political stalemate between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

In spite of the resolution's altered wording, Israel maintained that the resolution was one-sided and excessive.

The resolution would have called on UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to send a panel of inquiry to Gaza to examine the circumstances of the shelling

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1.	I am afraid after the next 9/11 there will be dancing again.....	10:31	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

2.	One again History Rewritten	11:07	\|	Guy From NYC	11/11/06

3.	UN security council votes on softened resolution	11:09	\|	mick roberts	11/11/06

4.	Funk The UN	11:47	\|	O`Reilly	11/11/06

5.	Dance on THIS !	11:47	\|	Akiva Patysh	11/11/06

6.	Dancing again?	11:55	\|	Neutral Observer	11/11/06

7.	Even the softened version will be vetoed by the USA	12:01	\|	Clickfool	11/11/06

8.	The UN.	12:16	\|	David Nigel Braham	11/11/06

9.	no 1, swiss....	12:18	\|	ravi	11/11/06

10.	Swiss threatens another 9/11 wil he be dancing?	12:24	\|	David	11/11/06

11.	Dont`t condemn Israel, put its leaders on trial	12:54	\|	Jacob	11/11/06

12.	UN	13:00	\|	Frank	11/11/06

13.	# 10 David If I would be Palestinian....	13:42	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

14.	Let them vote for whatever they want	14:23	\|	Jonathan S	11/11/06

15.	UN	14:44	\|	David	11/11/06

16.	UN Resolutions Not for Israel	14:49	\|	Walid	11/11/06

17.	# 11 Jacob	14:52	\|	Moe	11/11/06

18.	as usual the UN will come out with nothing	14:55	\|	Tamir Gaza	11/11/06

19.	Censor the Swiss roll	15:06	\|	y a w n	11/11/06

20.	TO ALL THE PALESTINIANS	15:10	\|	Moe	11/11/06

21.	#1, I had a feeling you are an idiot, now you convinced me	15:18	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

22.	#1, I had a feeling you are an idiot, now you convinced me	15:18	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

23.	# 9 Ravi	15:22	\|	Ian Williams	11/11/06

24.	You too #6	15:22	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

25.	clickfool	15:23	\|	Tom C	11/11/06

26.	#6, why don`t you move to Sderot?	15:26	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

27.	ISLAMIC PRESENCE IN THE HOLY LAND IS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY	15:31	\|	Liberation	11/11/06

28.	UN Crap	15:39	\|	Brod	11/11/06

29.	We already understand why - they are death worshippers	15:45	\|	Joe Frazier	11/11/06

30.	Can we have a UN resolution condemning the UN?	16:06	\|	Dan N	11/11/06

31.	TIME TO DEMOCRATIZE THE UN = SCRAP THE RIGHT TO (AB)USE A VETO	16:13	\|	Messaoud	11/11/06

32.	Large UN mission is needed	16:20	\|	Dr D	11/11/06

33.	One week	16:20	\|	MR	11/11/06

34.	Where is the Condemnation of muqutada al sadr	16:23	\|	rick geiger	11/11/06

35.	1 Swiss: after the next 9/11 there will be dancing again.....	16:26	\|	KUTW	11/11/06

36.	The Hypocricy of the UN and the World	16:28	\|	Yentl	11/11/06

37.	UN resolutions	16:31	\|	KUTW	11/11/06

38.	To the immagenary or real Clickfool.	16:32	\|	David Nigel Braham	11/11/06

39.	U.N = Antisemetics	16:43	\|	Ariya Gothelf	11/11/06

40.	#12	16:53	\|	ballistic	11/11/06

41.	#21 response	17:10	\|	ballistic	11/11/06

42.	dancing again?	17:13	\|	joanne	11/11/06

43.	The Human Rights Dance	17:19	\|	Fed Up	11/11/06

44.	7: As it should be, Fool	17:22	\|	David Teich	11/11/06

45.	To Swiss and Ravi	17:32	\|	California Bear	11/11/06

46.	UN	17:39	\|	Brod	11/11/06

47.	Hey clickfoot, the same guys that blew the London subway are ....	17:39	\|	Jorge	11/11/06

48.	kutw...no 19	17:49	\|	ravi	11/11/06

49.	# 27 California Beer Maybe you read .....	18:09	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

50.	Proposed Rewording	18:15	\|	natan	11/11/06

51.	more of the same Arab hypocrecy	18:24	\|	John	11/11/06

52.	# 19 KUTW	18:26	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

53.	Jorge in Tegucigalpa`s terrible analogy!	18:35	\|	Wiktor	11/11/06

54.	Quatar Should Focus On Its Expanded Harem and Share it With Pals	18:45	\|	Joseph E .	11/11/06

55.	#11, move to Sderot for a month and	18:47	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

56.	# 27 California Bear Maybe you have another look...	18:56	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

57.	Beit Hanun Security Council Resolutions	19:32	\|	Helena	11/11/06

58.	For Jorge # 29	19:53	\|	Clickfool	11/11/06

59.	Neural Observer #6 is right	19:53	\|	Nathan	11/11/06

60.	For David Nigel Barham # 22	20:00	\|	Clickfool	11/11/06

61.	U.N. RESOLUTIONS?	20:20	\|	NEIL GOLAN	11/11/06

62.	AND TO THINK	20:31	\|	BEN	11/11/06

63.	What about Darfur ??? (Hypocrite UN)	20:48	\|	Victor_the_Egyptian	11/11/06

64.	13: Swiss, of course you would	20:48	\|	David Teich	11/11/06

65.	Pals martur them selfs in Beit Hanun for	21:00	\|	Stranger	11/11/06

66.	Take Heart Israelis - Another UN Victory	21:01	\|	chet	11/11/06

67.	Well, again the UN is proved irrelevant.	21:01	\|	Mark	11/11/06

68.	SWISS	21:07	\|	Stranger	11/11/06

69.	U.S. Veto	21:09	\|	gregdn	11/11/06

70.	I am ashame to be American	21:11	\|	SAM	11/11/06

71.	Of course the US vetoed the resolution.	21:22	\|	Colin Wright	11/11/06

72.	# 39 settler David Teich I am afraid, you just outed.....	21:31	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

73.	swiss you are right	21:34	\|	bev	11/11/06

74.	# 43 stranger Sorry, stranger but Volvo....	21:35	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

75.	One fact should be noted	21:37	\|	Jonathan S	11/11/06

76.	Swiss do you know why?	21:38	\|	bev	11/11/06

77.	To rick geiger from NY	21:39	\|	Lebanese in Canada	11/11/06

78.	Dancing again propoganda disgusting jerk!	21:42	\|	bev	11/11/06

79.	ravi an Indian name	21:47	\|	bev	11/11/06

80.	Resolution	21:51	\|	Matt	11/11/06

81.	chet and Doris dutch	21:55	\|	bev	11/11/06

82.	sam	21:58	\|	bev	11/11/06

83.	# 51 bev Yeah, right bev, the Europeans are...	21:59	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

84.	# 27 California Bear You should read once again...	22:06	\|	Swiss	11/11/06

85.	US vetoes in the same day they caught an Israeli spy...	22:09	\|	MS	11/11/06

86.	Our enemy is the United State of America	22:32	\|	Arab	11/11/06

87.	Boton`s Braying ...	22:32	\|	Veritas	11/11/06

88.	Quell Surprise!!!	22:35	\|	Victor	11/11/06

89.	More Shameful bias by John Bolton and Company	22:41	\|	Dutch	11/11/06

90.	#47 (Ashame [sic] to be American	22:42	\|	Austin Osborn	11/11/06

91.	#47 "I am ashame (sic) to be American"	22:46	\|	Austin O	11/11/06

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93.	UN??	22:53	\|	Tatiana	11/11/06

94.	Doris AKA Dutch	22:59	\|	Elliot	11/11/06

95.	#23	23:21	\|	DOVERFOX	11/11/06

96.	was there ever a....	23:28	\|	vik	11/11/06

97.	BUSH vetoe	23:29	\|	jean marie	11/11/06

98.	Haazretz use deceiving headlines!	23:32	\|	Mufasa	11/11/06

99.	32. Swiss	23:43	\|	KUTW	11/11/06

100.	SHAME ON US...	23:47	\|	mike katz	11/11/06

101.	How much longer can/will the US shield Israel?	23:51	\|	spyguy	11/11/06

102.	Congratulations Japan, Denmark, Slovakia and the UK	23:53	\|	British academic	11/11/06

103.	Swiss, do not let expire your Jordanian passport.	00:08	\|	zayyin ba ayin	12/11/06

104.	The UN Must Strip U.S. of its Veto Power	00:09	\|	Timothy	12/11/06

105.	#!15 whoever you are	00:14	\|	alex	12/11/06

106.	What`s the Surprise	00:21	\|	Walid	12/11/06

107.	So sad..How much is enough?	00:24	\|	Josh	12/11/06

108.	Re #70 Austin O	00:29	\|	What a nice God	12/11/06

109.	Churchill was a lone voice	00:32	\|	Nathaniel	12/11/06

110.	Put NATO Leaders and Sri Lanka Leaders on Trial First	00:34	\|	Haham me Bat Yam	12/11/06

111.	For how long will US support the right...	00:43	\|	Jago	12/11/06

112.	ben	00:47	\|	bev	12/11/06

113.	stop kelling the civilians under the of self defense	00:53	\|	not important	12/11/06

114.	Vet0	01:14	\|	JJ	12/11/06

115.	#60 - Bev in Toronto	01:14	\|	chet	12/11/06

116.	Britains Abstained - Why?	01:15	\|	Mohammed Choudhury	12/11/06

117.	It is firing ofssams which is the cause of "massacres".	01:22	\|	LK	12/11/06

118.	Democratise the UN	01:43	\|	Mark	12/11/06

119.	DID YOU SPEAK OUT	01:49	\|	TOBIA	12/11/06

120.	Hamas should understand Y US will always vote against terrorism !	01:50	\|	Bobby	12/11/06

121.	re: Ariya #23	01:58	\|	Paulo	12/11/06

122.	Just Give Up Arabs...	02:11	\|	Observer	12/11/06

123.	What`s the surprise	02:32	\|	Hy Klein	12/11/06

124.	Jonathan, Swiss (NOT) Germany	02:52	\|	kimpeter	12/11/06

125.	Dumb question	03:01	\|	Murray of Montreal	12/11/06

126.	The UN is a waste	03:06	\|	George Goldman	12/11/06

127.	?	03:07	\|	matt	12/11/06

128.	To # 75 Timothy	03:08	\|	California Bear	12/11/06

129.	The US administraton is the mother of Terrorism	03:29	\|	Sam (UK)	12/11/06

130.	Arab#65 : Arab leaders are the main enemy	03:38	\|	Sam (UK)	12/11/06

131.	Be Ready For Expanded IDF Operation In Gaza	03:40	\|	Joseph E .	12/11/06

132.	The veto is shortsighted and stupid	03:52	\|	Jozef	12/11/06

133.	Re: Austin O	04:03	\|	Lei	12/11/06

134.	no Mohammed	04:14	\|	bev	12/11/06

135.	Of Rhyme & Reason	04:16	\|	Robert B.	12/11/06

136.	Reply to number 1	04:23	\|	Wanda	12/11/06

137.	chet	04:24	\|	bev	12/11/06

138.	Swiss, keep shtum	04:33	\|	Allon	12/11/06

139.	SWISS CHEESE	04:40	\|	Brant	12/11/06

140.	Why do americans hate palestinians?	04:49	\|	Voice of Reason	12/11/06

141.	massacres	04:58	\|	nathan friedmann	12/11/06

142.	idea for next arab league UN resolution	05:25	\|	vik	12/11/06

143.	timothy -- where do you think most of the funding of the UN comes	05:42	\|	Gina	12/11/06

144.	One Security Council resolution for every Qassam	05:42	\|	Dave	12/11/06

145.	Well Done US!	05:45	\|	Gina	12/11/06

146.	Standing Up is easier than lying down!	05:48	\|	Sonja	12/11/06

147.	Walid	05:51	\|	Gina	12/11/06

148.	Swiss	05:58	\|	Gina	12/11/06

149.	#11 Jacob I have some questions for you	06:06	\|	Dave	12/11/06

150.	Bolton is going	06:12	\|	Ernie	12/11/06

151.	The writing is on the wall for Bush	06:17	\|	Natallie Durson	12/11/06

152.	Kim	06:21	\|	Ernie	12/11/06

153.	Response to #94 California Bear	07:22	\|	Timothy	12/11/06

154.	117: No, Ernie, it was not balanced	08:38	\|	David Teich	12/11/06

155.	107: Vick, or one condemning Shiite V Sunni violence	08:40	\|	David Teich	12/11/06

156.	115 Re: Bolton is going	08:42	\|	John	12/11/06

157.	The reason Britain abstained	09:16	\|	Victor_the_Egyptian	12/11/06

158.	David Teich	11:21	\|	Ernie	12/11/06

159.	Israel has sinned	11:38	\|	David King	12/11/06

160.	To Ben in Jerusalem	12:55	\|	John	12/11/06

161.	to "british academic"	12:57	\|	John	12/11/06

162.	158: Ernie, quit inventing and address the facts.	16:18	\|	David Teich	12/11/06

163.	ISRAEL IS NOT ALONE	16:23	\|	Yentl	12/11/06

164.	#163 Israel is VERY alone	03:18	\|	Liberty Rising	13/11/06

165.	#151 Writing on the wall	03:28	\|	Carter	13/11/06

166.	Most posts on this site	03:42	\|	Liberty Rising	13/11/06

167.	166: Ignorance Rising, most posts are, sadly, like yours	08:42	\|	David Teich	13/11/06

168.	Israel ..The Apple of His Eyes	16:53	\|	Yentl	13/11/06

169.	#166 indigenous citizens...	07:03	\|	Liberty Rising	14/11/06

170.	# 169 read !	16:07	\|	Yentl	14/11/06

171.	#170 Yentl	06:48	\|	Liberty Rising	15/11/06

172.	169: Malib Sinking, my what big lies you have (2nd try)	09:15	\|	David Teich	15/11/06

173.	#172 Try, try again	06:42	\|	Liberty Rising	16/11/06

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175.	#174 Strong support	07:51	\|	Liberty Rising	18/11/06

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