A UN Security Council member promoting terrorism? According the Ha'aretz Daily, you betcha!
Syria, on the other hand, is playing an entirely different game. Despite Syrian President Bashar Assad's participation in the summit meeting at Sharm el Sheikh, it is known he has urged Hamas to step up its operations and Islamic Jihad has already agreed to do so. Syria has promised Hamas financial aid if it renews suicide bombings.On the one hand, Damascus fears direct military confrontation with Israel and has responded to demands by U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to restrain Hezbollah. On the other hand, Damascus maintains its aggressive posture against Israel.
Syria is assumed to be coordinating its efforts with Tehran. Internationally, this has created the unusual situation of a state sitting on the UN Security Council making clearly aggressive moves.
Do we need any more evidence that he UN is part of the problem, not part of the solution?
Posted by Rich at May 20, 2002 9:04 PM