Friday, November 29, 2002

Damn, I stepped in some U.N.
(Via Free Republic) You'll be happy to know that according to the United Nations, November 29 is the day that the UN solemnly marks International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People:
The United Nations today solemnly marked the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People amid widespread calls for efforts to achieve a two-State solution to the Middle East conflict.

"This Day of Solidarity is a day of mourning and a day of grief," Secretary-General Kofi Annan told a commemorative meeting in a message delivered on his behalf by Chef de Cabinet S. Iqbal Riza. Deploring the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, he noted that the human and material losses suffered by the Palestinians over the past two years have been "nothing short of catastrophic."
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The Chairman of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, Papa Louis Fall of Senegal, said the root cause of the prevailing violence remains the occupation of Palestinian territory by Israel and its perpetuation of illegal actions, including curfews, arrests, detentions, the demolition of houses, the devastation of farmlands, the deliberate pursuit of the settlements policy and extrajudicial executions.
I wonder how much the benighted American taxpayers laid out for this soiree?