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U.N. Votes in Favor of Imposing ‘Toughest Sanctions Ever’ on Iran

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Posted on Jun 9, 2010
AP / Hasan Sarbakhshian

Here’s President Barack Obama’s take on the stringent new sanctions the U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to impose on Iran: They’re “the toughest sanctions ever faced by Iran.” Right, now here’s Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on the same topic: The sanctions are like a “used handkerchief that should be dumped in a garbage can.”  —KA

CNN:

“They cannot harm the Iranian nation,” he said, according to the semi-official Iranian Students News Agency.

The vote was 12-2, with Lebanon abstaining. Brazil and Turkey opposed the sanctions—the fourth set of measures to try to rein in Iran since 2006.

“True security will not come through nuclear weapons,” Obama said. He called Iran the only signer of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty “that cannot convince the IAEA that its nuclear program is intended for peaceful purposes,” referring to the U.N.‘s International Atomic Energy Agency.

But the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations blasted the vote.

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By PatrickHenry, June 12, 2010 at 7:29 pm Link to this comment

Inherit, Israel typically ignores UN resolutions and holds the record in doing so. 

I don’t see Israel suffering sanctions, at least not yet.

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By Inherit The Wind, June 12, 2010 at 6:58 pm Link to this comment

P-H:

You’re not listening—- again!

It’s simple: if you say that it’s just and right that Israel be held to UN resolutions, you cannot turn around and say Iran should NOT be held to them.

Or vice versa.  You cannot play situational ethics.

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By PatrickHenry, June 10, 2010 at 2:37 pm Link to this comment

Inherit, with that logic, Israel has undeclared nukes, why can’t Iran have them?

Even better,

Israel can attack and kill unarmed civilians on the high seas, why can’t Iran?

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By Arabian Sinbad, June 10, 2010 at 7:54 am Link to this comment

Shut up Obama! You’re talking and acting as the ultimate hypocrite!

What an irony! And how sad it is that after eight long years of evil Bush, I experienced a sigh of relief for your election to find out, to my misery, that the difference between you and him is a matter of artificial cosmetics.

In the spirit of my total despair about my sad adopted homeland, America, I have to repeat my favorite line, which is, “the more things change, the more they stay the same if they don’t get worse.” But in this case “they are truly getting worse!”

What a wasted false hope I entertained after you first appeared on the scene!!!

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By Inherit The Wind, June 10, 2010 at 7:22 am Link to this comment

I’m not surprised:
UN resolutions condemning Israel are “scripture” but UN resolutions sanctioning Iran are “evil”

So, if Iran shouldn’t have to follow the UN’s will, why should Israel.

alternatively

And if Israel must follow the UN’s will, why mustn’t Iran?

Answer: Hypocrisy and a double standard that judges Israel and Jews differently than other nations and religions.

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By Ed Harges, June 10, 2010 at 7:07 am Link to this comment

re:By nahida, June 10 at 6:29 am:

Thanks for the informative links to the Lubovitcher material.
They’re as scary as the Christian fascists in our Congress.
In particular I found that the rabbi’s discussion of the
“Jewish soul” explains a lot about the mindset which these radicals
bring to the world.

For a long time I’ve noticed a very specific way in which some pro-Israel
American Jews, even many who regard themselves as liberals, look on other
people as inferior. What I have noticed is that they very readily and with
apparent sincerity acknowledge the full humanity of non-Jews, while
behaving in such a way as to imply that Jews are better.

They’re not like, for example, American white racists who despise black people.
White American racists seem to fixate on certain people, usually blacks, as
less than human. In other words, white supremacists regard one particular
group - blacks - as less than fully human. In contrast, some Jews seem to
fixate on one particular group as better than other people, while conceding that
other people are indeed fully human.

The inescapable conclusion is that if the goyim are fully human, but Jews are
better, then Jews must be better than human.

And this we see exactly laid out in the rabbi’s essay:

“There are two different and distinct entities: the human being, and the Jew
who is part of G-d”

He also writes that other human beings are “created” beings, with “created”
souls, whereas the Jewish soul is not a “created” soul, because it is actually part
of God, who of course did not create Himself.

I detect this chauvinism even in many Jews who do not consider themselves
orthodox or even religious: a conviction that Jews are better than people.

The idea, the cultural meme, that all people are fully human, but Jews are
better than merely human, allows many Jews to think of themselves as
broadminded egalitarian “humanists”, while maintaining in their own minds an
exalted status for their own group, and therefore justifying Israel’s treatment of
the Palestinians.

The distinction is this: Jewish chauvinists do not think that “Jews are better than
other people”; they think that “Jews are better than people”.

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By dihey, June 10, 2010 at 5:13 am Link to this comment

The Obama administration must be desperate for some “good news” when they hail this almost meaningless act as a grand victory, something like VE-day! Folks, we are governed by a bunch of desperadoes.

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By nahida, June 10, 2010 at 1:29 am Link to this comment

Dear Ed Harges

No need to apologize, we differentiate between people and their self-imposed corrupt governments

We understand that many Western governments and institutions are occupied just like Palestine, and sooner or later other people will understand this stark reality, when that happens the struggle for liberation will begin

It’s a long way to go, but there is no other:

To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war

—Ludwig von Mises

————

The underlying ideology that MUST be discarded and defeated in order to liberate not only Palestine, but also the WORLD:

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/04/worm-is-in-can_3716.html

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/04/blog-post_11.html

Please read carefully and share with as many people as possible

.

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By Ed Harges, June 9, 2010 at 6:53 pm Link to this comment

Nahida,

I’m so, so sorry.

I really don’t know how to stop this.

I know this is supposed to be “my” government doing this.

But I’m afraid American democracy is a fiction. It’s not “my” government at all.
It seems to belong to Israel. I’m not exactly sure how this works, but somehow,
in a way, America has become part of the Israeli-occupied territories. It’s like
they just took over, when we weren’t really paying attention, and now there’s
nothing we can do about it. They can shut anybody up - like Jimmy Carter, or
Helen Thomas - and they can kill anybody - like Rachel Corrie, or Furkan
Dogan - and they just get away with it; it’s amazing.

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By GregDiablo, June 9, 2010 at 3:08 pm Link to this comment

So why doesn’t Israel get sanctions for murdering an American four times in the
head?  And for having nuclear weapons that never get inspected because of their
special privileged status as a rogue nation?  Instead they get $3 billion a year for
building illegal settlements while Americans go homeless.

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By nahida, June 9, 2010 at 2:58 pm Link to this comment

indeed Ed Harges

Look how they cook their poison:

http://uprootedpalestinians.blogspot.com/2010/06/time-has-come-to-reassess-our.html

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By PatrickHenry, June 9, 2010 at 2:55 pm Link to this comment

How sad it is that the U.S. public is fed a constant media barrage of bad Iran, dangerous Iran when those perpetuating this fiction have harmed America more than Iran ever could.

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By Ed Harges, June 9, 2010 at 12:14 pm Link to this comment

Another sickening step toward a new war for Israel,
a catastrophe that will dwarf the Iraq war in its terrible cost
to the US and to the whole world.

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