Saturday, September 06, 2008

UN has lost all credbility with this action-outrage!!

Report: UN to demand Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion

Lebanese media say Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to instruct Israel to take responsibility for environmental damages caused by 2006 war, including oil spill following bombing of Beirut power plant

Roee Nahmias
Israel News

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will demand that Israel pay Lebanon $1 billion in compensation over damages caused during the Jewish state's 2006 war against Hizbullah, Lebanese media reported Saturday. According to the report, the sum, based on World Bank appraisals, is aimed at covering the environmental and material damages caused by the Second Lebanon War, to neighboring countries as well.


The fundamental part of the compensation demanded is for the damage caused to the Lebanese coast due to an oil spill following an Israeli bombing of a southern Beirut power plant, which the Lebanese said had caused "an ecological disaster."



According to the report, Ban plans to submit a report to the United Nations General Assembly at the end of the month, stating that damage Israel caused to the oil reservoir polluted Lebanon's coast, and that the pollution spread to neighboring countries, especially Syria.



Ban further notes that the UN rehabilitation plan managed to clean some of the oil spill in several areas in northern Lebanon seashores.



The oil spill, which was defined the greatest natural disaster in Lebanon's history, took place after Israel Air Force planes hit a power plant and caused some 110,000 oil barrels to leak into the Mediterranean Sea.

The report said that the UN wants Israel to compensate the countries harmed by the oil spill and restore the environmental situation along the Lebanon coast. The Jewish state has yet to respond to the demand, despite messages conveyed in August 2007.



About half a year ago, new agencies reported that the German government granted Lebanon 4.5 million euros (about $6.4 million) to help finance environmental projects and damage restoration activities following the war.

Comment: Let's analyze this-we, Israel, were attacked, our soldiers were kidnapped, held hostage ,dead on arrival thousands upon thousands of rockets hit our land and we have to pay? End of analysis!
Western peoples-stand up-pay attention-no longer can we describe our enemy correctly (jihadists), we dare not offend our enemy, and we are not allowed to defend ourselves or properties lest we end up having to pay millions upon millions-if you are unwilling to write/call the UN with outrage as the message, you can bend over now and kiss your ... goodbye!

2 comments:

Alan said...

You can't lose what you don't have.

When it comes to the Arab-Israeli conflict, the UN hasn't had any credibility for decades.

GS Don Morris, Ph.D./Chana Givon said...

Correct-yet we need to play the political game and bring this story forward-doc