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"GENOCIDE" - Prez of UN Gen Assembly

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The president of the UN General Assembly has condemned Israel's killings of Palestinians in its Gaza offensive as "genocide".

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"The number of victims in Gaza is increasing by the day... The situation is untenable. It's genocide," d'Escoto said at the UN in New York.

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"Now we're faced with not only with a lack of compliance but with a prime minister of Israel who has practically responded to the Security Council by saying 'mind your own business'.

"It's unbelievable that a country that owes its existence to a general assembly resolution could be so disdainful of the resolutions that emanate from the UN."

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/01/200911321467988347.html

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"You have to attack problems at their root cause and the Palestinian people have been subjected to subhuman treatment for decades and this [the Israeli offensive] is going to make matters worse."

 

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But why should anyone listen to him? by Peter Dearman on Wednesday, Jan 14, 2009 at 6:42:44 AM