france?

And just who do you think is going to come to collect these taxes?

france?

We’re there to honor the old mobster’s dictum (friends, enemies, proximity, some assembly required). We’re also there to safeguard one of our financial flanks. The U.N. openly dreams of creating a mandatory, independent tax authority. Our inSecurity Council veto ensures that doesn’t happen. If we surrender that, and our contribution, we give the U.N. causus taxii to implement their longtime dream.

And that would place us in an impossible position. So, better the enemy you know, and all that.

The U.S. is big. The Federal Government owns half the land west of the Mississippi. Most of it dry desert. Iíd like us to move Israel. Not just the Jews, but everything. Build special barges, and drag, load, lift every thing, temple, tree the Israelis got.( I bet we could get the Saudi crime family to pay for it.)

The Jews showed up with nothing but will and nightmares, and then built the second largest economy in the area. In an area with hostile, and the most economically and politically incompetent people on earth, the Arabs. Plunk Israel in the American west, like some Jewish Utah and we would all be way, way richer. Iíd say 80% of American Indian tribal lands are larger than Israel. Whatís one more tribe so to speak.

Just think how theyíd hate it all even more. Priceless.

“….
And it isnít only rhetoric. Mr. Pryce-Jones describes how, immediately after World War II, senior officers in the French foreign service conspired to rescue Haj Amin Al-Husseini, the former mufti of Jerusalem, who had taken up residence in Nazi Germany during the war and who was answerable, upon Germanyís defeat, for various war crimes, including active support for the extermination of the Jews. The French, having sheltered him in Paris for months, eventually let him escape to Egypt in 1946 carrying a forged passport.”

By the way Ynet sees it this way:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329796,00.html
“France fumes at US veto on proposal to condemn Israel for Beit Hanoun incident at Security Council, turns to General Assembly. Israel not satisfied; diplomatic source says ëIt is truly an Arab extensioní.
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The fact that the US also has veto power in the Quartet pushed France to reach a decision at the UN Security Council, where there is an automatic majority of Muslim and third world countries.

European countries such as Germany, Holland, Denmark, and Britain intended on refraining from the vote at the general assembly, which would have lead to many other eastern European and South American countries refraining as well.
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I see it as a combination of realpolitik, dhimmitude, and latent antisemitism. The Euros have virtually disarmed. Their interests are almost purely economic–oil, markets, cheap labor. They’ve let their Muslim minorities grow dangerously large and unruly. What to do? Appease, buy time. Besides, who’s really hurt by throwing “that shitty little country” under the bus?

Maybe everything will be fine. In the meantime, their on Holiday.

I could answer your question once I figured out why the US is still a member of the UN