Bag's Rants

A Ceasefire is agreed.

Well, it looks like a ceasefire has been agreed by all sides. It's going to start at 05:00 GMT tomorrow. I'm just wondering why the Israelis agreed so quickly. Must be pressure from the western media who are clearly no longer even covertly pretending to be reporting the news rather than making it.

I wonder how long it will be before Israel is under attack again? Someone else firing indiscriminately into Israel or walking bombers in. Will it last a day, or two? Does this UN mandate have the caveat where if the ceasefire is broken then Israel can carry on where it left off?

How does this whole UN mandate thing work anyway? Since I've gone off the UN I have looked at some of the things they do and it seems to all come down to how much pressure can be put on the players. Basically, the US does as it wants because there is no pressure big enough to make it do something it does not want to do. Others who don't care but have no reason for the US to interfere are left alone. In addition all they want to do is interfere in the internal workings of other countries. That is no different from the US but at least the US is doing it to keep their country strong. The UN seems to be trying to weaken every country to the same level.

I still believe in many aspects of what I thought the UN was about but still believe they need to start with the achievable and build respect by doing things right. What is there is useless and corrupt and needs to go.

posted by Bag @ 4:14 pm