Condemnation without action

In its long list of 'Israeli condemnations' the UN in a 39-2 vote, with 12 abstentions, passed its latest resolution on Thursday demanding that Israel should prevent any new installation of settlers in the occupied territories.

The two votes against the resolution, naturally, came from Australia and the United States - two of the three major Islamicphobic governments.

The resolution, titled Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, also applied to traditionally Arab parts of East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, which Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Middle East war.

But, if the past experience has any indication - This new 'resolution' too will become food for Israel's 'UN garbage basket'.

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/A3BB1562-B452-41D3-B3 08-C2B4192361F4.htm

Oh yes, Australia is such a bunch of crooks. We allow all sorts of people to live here peacefully - even Muslims!

We force our citizens to vote in order to make sure that everyone has a voice in running the country - how silly of us! We should just become a dictatorship!

You Muslims value tribal alliances - well so do we in a way. the USA saved us in World War 2 from the Japanese. We honour this defence by following them into all sorts of stupid wars like Vietnam and Iraq. I'm not defending our actions, that's just how it is. We protested against both wars, but in the end we follow the USA into battle then try to act in as fair a way as possible with the invaded locals - with health care and re-building communities and such.

Our military is nowhere near big enough to make much of a difference in battle in most places - our military's job is mostly peace-keeping duties. Does that make us SO evil?

Kim...

ZamanH wrote: Oh yes, Australia is such a bunch of crooks. We allow all sorts of people to live here peacefully - even Muslims! West doesn't helps anyone, unless it serves  its own interest. No one  goes to the West to beg. Westerners allow Muslims live in their land because they provide cheap labour.

Oh YES, that's SO TRUE! We have union and labor laws and minimum wages and all that sort of rubbish so that people can come here and be cheap labour. Oh YES, you are SO right and you obviously know SO MUCH about Australia.

You should come here and check out all our racist labour laws and our Philipino maids and our Black Boys waiting at hotel doors, etc, etc.

Idiot - our cheap labour is OVERSEAS. You know - China and places like that where companies make people work 27 hours a day for thrupence a fortnight. Why not complain about THOSE sorts of countries so that countries like MINE can't take advantage of them any more?

No? Too hard? Then shut up.

Kim...

ZamanH wrote: Oh yes, Australia is such a bunch of crooks. We allow all sorts of people to live here peacefully - even Muslims! West doesn't helps anyone, unless it serves  its own interest. No one  goes to the West to beg. Westerners allow Muslims live in their land because they provide cheap labour. Indians living in the West have generated great wealth for the Westerners, still Westerners consider the coloured people animals. Here in India, I see many Indians applying to work in the West, but only the exceptionally qualified are chosen.

Yeah - and? We are only a very small country in terms of population and in terms of actually being able to support people by supplying food and water and the like. We are 2/3 desert. How many people do you think we should just let in willy-nilly? Say we _did_ let in millions of people whose qualifications were mostly useless here- we would have to bring in MORE food from overseas and probably build de-salination plants to supply water. So how much MORE expensive would life become here and how much would we have to exploit people to get money from them to PAY for these services.

Westerners, in general, discriminate on the basis of race/skin color.

You just said we discriminate by qualifications.

Like the countries full of gypsies in Europe, a place with as small a population as AUstralia can NOT afford to take in too many people.

Besides - Australia is losing jobs (mostly IT and communications) to INDIA because your labor costs are so low and your population so huge. Maybe you should look at the pay inequalities in your own country, instead of bagging us for _apparently_ hiring (or not hiring, make up your mind, would you?) loads of poor little brown people.

The Native people in America and Australia live in slums of big cities miserably in their own country. While the Westerners and their children gorge on their resources like pigs. Americans and Australians are shameless scoundrels. They live on land which they stole from others. They are supreme hypocrites to say that they help others while they only "help" when they want to rob of them of their resources. They are really scums on Earth and most of the problems in the world is the result of their mischeif.

Oh yes? And where would _I_ live if I were to remove myself from this stolen land? My family has been here since 1791. YOU seem to have forgotten that many people were FORCED to come here.

And you've probably also forgotten that tens of thousands of people escaped to Australia to avoid all the crap that Europe did to itself during the wars? My fault? Heaven forbid we should try to help people live better lives.

YES - dreadful things were done to our natives, but none of it had anything to do with me or my family, but that doesn't stop people like me trying to do something about it.

Kim...