On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:35:59 +1000 '"Ben Cramer"
<[REMOVE]bencramer7@gmail.com>'
posted this onto uk.politics.misc:
>"hummingbird" <RHBIYDTNPPAX@spammotel.com> wrote in message
>news:ng7ge2lnb6nvf0qce7ja6npncbbpcon8u9@4ax.com...
>> ...not with bombs of course
>> ...but verbally for breaking the Lebanon ceasefire.
>>
>> UN Press Release:
>> http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=19574&Cr=Leban&Cr1=
>>
>> ""The Secretary-General is deeply concerned about a violation by the
>> Israeli side of the cessation of hostilities as laid out in Security
>> Council resolution 1701," a UN spokesman said in a statement.
>> Adopted on 11 August, that text mandated a halt to the fighting
>> which took effect three days later.
>>
>> There have also been several air violations by Israeli military
>> aircraft, according to the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL),
>> which is helping to support and coordinate the Israeli withdrawal.
>>
>> Mr. Annan said violations of Security Council resolution 1701 such as
>> the Israeli raid today "endanger the fragile calm that was reached
>> after much negotiation and undermine the authority of the Government
>> of Lebanon.""
>You weren't naive enough to believe israel would stick to the agreement,
>were you?
It was touch and go with me but I'm surprised they broke it so soon.
--
"I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery"
"We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost"
"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in shackles"
...Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1712-1778
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