Quick! Quick! Everyone to the other side of the boat!

[Rashiminos]

http://www.france24.com/en/20110410...ne-gaza-israel-air-strikes-libya-un-palestine

Arab League to appeal for Gaza 'no-fly zone'
By News Wires the 10/04/2011 - 16:20

Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa announced Sunday his intention to appeal to the UN Security Council for a no-fly zone over Gaza, where repeated Israeli air strikes have left at least 18 people dead since Thursday.

AFP - Arab League chief Amr Mussa said on Sunday the organisation will ask the UN Security Council to impose a no-fly zone over Gaza, which Israel has pounded with air strikes in response to rocket fire.

Mussa told an emergency meeting of Arab League ambassadors that "the Arab bloc in the United Nations has been directed to ask for the convention of the Security Council to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza and impose a no-fly zone."

Israeli and Palestinian officials were on Sunday floating a ceasefire to end fighting in the coastal strip where Israeli air strikes have killed at least 18 people since Thursday.

But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned of an even stronger response if more rockets are fired from the Palestinian territory controlled by the Islamist movement Hamas.

The flare-up came after an anti-tank missile fired from Gaza hit an Israeli school bus on Thursday, wounding two people, one of them critically.

Even if Arab representatives at the United Nations succeed in convening a Security Council meeting, the United States, a close ally of Israel, is likely to veto it.

The Arab League request for a no-fly zone over Gaza may have been inspired by a UN-sanctioned aerial blockade for Libya to halt forces loyal to Moamer Kadhafi harming civilians.

Arab League backing for that no-fly zone was seen as crucially important by the United States when it pressed for a UN resolution that authorised it and other countries to keep Libyan planes grounded.

It's sauce for the Libyan goose, but is it sauce for the gander?

 

[Newbunkle]

That would be awesome if they could get it, but I doubt that they will.

 

[Formaldehyde]

It is about time someone suggested the obvious.

Should we impose no-fly zones over Arizona and other red states?

 

[Truthy]

How will they impose a no fly zone if Israel destroyed all of their aircraft?
Edit: If their were rocket attacks against Israel, why the no fly zone?

 

[Formaldehyde]

Well, that is essentially the reason for no-fly zones. For instance, very few undocumented immigrants in Arizona, or even liberals, have access to military jets.

EDIT: Thanks for changing it back!

 

[emzie]

Get back to me when a country, or a coalition, is found that is both willing and able to enforce such a no-fly zone.

 

[Formaldehyde]

Good point. Don't expect the US, or any other heavily Christian country, to come to the aid of those particular victims. The only ones who seem to be willing to do so are instantly labelled as being "terrorists".

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

Those kids in those adds for aid to African children could use a no-fly zone

 

[Truthy]

I wouldn't expect so either.

 

[Mr. Dictator]

I wish them all the luck in the world.

 

[AL_DA_GREAT]

Israel is by far the most criminal "state" in the middle east. If there are any freedom fighters in the middle east we should back it is the Palestinians. There land has been stolen, they have been murdered by the hundreds of thousands and terrorized continuously for 65 years.

 

[Truthy]

Israel is by far the most criminal "state" in the middle east. If there are any freedom fighters in the middle east we should back it is the Palestinians. There land has been stolen, they have been murdered by the hundreds of thousands and terrorized continuously for 65 years.

I'll play devil's advocate. Can't all of these arguments be equally applied in Israel's favor?

 

[Skwink]

Israel is by far the most criminal "state" in the middle east. If there are any freedom fighters in the middle east we should back it is the Palestinians. There land has been stolen, they have been murdered by the hundreds of thousands and terrorized continuously for 65 years.

Then the most criminal country in NA is America, they did the same to the Native Americans.

 

[emzie]

Then the most criminal country in NA is America, they did the same to the Native Americans.

Don't try and steal credit from Canada. We were worse.

 

[Skwink]

Then I guess we should split Canada and USA between the Natives and us.

 

[NickyJ]

If their were rocket attacks against Israel, why the no fly zone?

Exactly. I don't see the point in basically going to war with Israel for them defending themselves. Just think if the situation were reversed and it were the Israelis launching rockets. By this time, they probably would have been squashed for engaging in terrorism.

 

[naterator]

Then I guess we should split Canada and USA between the Natives and us.

Done and done. They're never getting anything close to 50%, but we're going back a lot farther than 1968 here.

(Green = America, duh)

 

[Mr. Dictator]

Exactly. I don't see the point in basically going to war with Israel for them defending themselves. Just think if the situation were reversed and it were the Israelis launching rockets. By this time, they probably would have been squashed for engaging in terrorism.

Ideally, that is exactly how the Six Day War would have ended, yes.

 

[Skwink]

Done and done. They're never getting anything close to 50%, but we're going back a lot farther than 1968 here.

(Green = America, duh)

The deserve better than that.

 

[emzie]

The deserve better than that.

Well that was the entire point, no? Keep the good land for us white folk. Don't see many large reservations east of the Mississippi do you?