Kick Israel out of the UN.

[Thranduil]

Asia Times: North Korea's Kim-made famine

Note the reference to children in the article. Way more dead than were ever killed by the IDF yet no calls to kick North Korea out. I wonder why?

North Korea is a country with a perennial shortage of food, if there is evidence that the incident was initiated deliberately by the N Korean president then your point might just be barely in tangent with an appropriate analogy, even then there is a difference in the means of killing (violent death versus deprivation of means to live) and the targets' relationship to the killer (Gazan non-Jewish Palestinians killed by Jewish state). The racial, religious angle to Israel's activities also lend them a more disturbing aura (the UN itself has specific rules about racially motivated crimes, genocide itself is defined by them along lines of racial or religious targetting).

[Andrew49]

PhoenixIreland Wrote :

The US has always treated the UN like crap, not paying their dues etc,

U.S. Payments for UN Peacekeeping More Than Doubled in Six Years.

U.S. payments for UN peacekeeping activities have more than doubled in the last six years, rising from $700 million in 2003 to an expected $1.8 billion in 2009, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office. U.S. taxpayers pick up 26 percent of the tab for UN peacekeeping.

The number of deployed uniformed UN peacekeepers and civilian staff rose from 41,000 in 2000 to about 109,000 in 2008.

Source

[Andrew49]

Thranduil Wrote:

North Korea is a country with a perennial shortage of food,

Not true.

N. Korea had achieved food self-sufficiency in prior decades through a massive industrialization of agriculture. It's famines were caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of guaranteed markets.

[Thranduil]

Thranduil Wrote:

Not true.

N. Korea had achieved food self-sufficiency in prior decades through a massive industrialization of agriculture. It's famines were caused by the collapse of the Soviet Union and the loss of guaranteed markets.

Famine may be defined as a 'shortage of food'. The fact that Kim was willing even to trade nuclear concessions for food is proof enough in my mind that he took the issue seriously and wanted it resolved.

This type of argument reminds me of those in the West accusing Mugabe of almost - genocide against his own people when Cholera struck, well skippy eye do - Cholera is actually fairly common in Africa because of a lack of money for proper water treatment and sanitation and Zimbabwe's economy is in ruins, basically if you really care - sending aid is the only way to demonstrate it - but we have been here before with Saddam and the sanctions haven't we? What was it US Secretary of State Albright said when asked if the deaths of hundreds of thousands of children as a result of the sanctions was worth it for the political gains perceived by the West in maintaining them? Oh yes.. 'we feel it is worth it'.

[PhoenixIreland]

PhoenixIreland Wrote :

U.S. Payments for UN Peacekeeping More Than Doubled in Six Years.

U.S. payments for UN peacekeeping activities have more than doubled in the last six years, rising from $700 million in 2003 to an expected $1.8 billion in 2009, according to a report published this month by the Government Accountability Office. U.S. taxpayers pick up 26 percent of the tab for UN peacekeeping.

The number of deployed uniformed UN peacekeepers and civilian staff rose from 41,000 in 2000 to about 109,000 in 2008.

Source

They only started paying what they owed after 9-11

[Andrew49]

The United States has been a “fair-weather friend” to UN peacekeeping in the past, said Patrick. For much of President Clinton’s term, the U.S. withheld UN dues, and was in arrears on its peacekeeping dues. President Bush was highly critical of the U.N. in his first term, before returning again and again to the United Nations to undertake peacekeeping missions in his second. From above source

And now the UN is asking, nay demanding that the US bailout ............. Cuba !

UN Demands

[PhoenixIreland]

The title of that article is deceptive.
Lifting an embargo (a good idea) is not a bailout and does not require US taxpayer money being used.

In fact it would make the US a lot of money