[Sosfbay-discuss] Gaza Catastrophe

[Wes Rolley]

Gerry, in an amplification of this issue, let me state that I am very 
disappointed in the fact that Samantha Power has not (yet?) gotten a 
position in the Obama administration.  The insights that she reveals in 
her biography of Sergio Vieira de Mello are needed now more than ever. 
Sergio was the Lead UN Diplomat in Baghdad who was killed in the truck 
bomb attack that caused the UN to pull everyone out of there.  His 
history was that of working in the center of conflicts: Lebanon, 
Cambodia, East Timor, Bosnia / Sarajevo and then Iraq.

The key perception from Vieira de Mello and Power was that for the UN to 
be "even handed" and "firmly objective" is these situations was, in 
fact, to side with those who already held Power.  His actions in Bosnia 
finally came to becoming active in such efforts as using the cover of UN 
trucks, etc. to smuggle threatened dissident out of Sarajevo, etc. 

In this situation in Gaza, I feel he would have been "objective" in his 
public pronouncements and working his ass off behind the scenes on 
forcing resolutions / freeing captives, etc. We lost a potentially great 
Secretary General.

All of this brings me to wonder what stance Hillary will take, minus the 
input from Samantha.

Gerry Gras wrote:
> Fraom the Guardian (UK),
> by "the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief
> and Works Agency"
>
> "The noble spirit of the universal declaration of human rights is 
> betrayed by a lack of help for Gaza"
>
>      http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/12/06-0
>
> Gerry
>
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