Thursday, January 7, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
JPost: Goldstone Clause Could Lead to Sanctions - 'The Goldstone Report included a threat to Israel that had been overlooked so far but could lead to voluntary, far-reaching economic sanctions against Israel by UN members, a US Jewish organization, the American Jewish International Relations Institute (AJIRI), warned on Wednesday. According to former US ambassador Richard Schifter, the threat comes from a paragraph in the report's recommendations referring to a UN provision stating that if the Security Council does not order action to be taken by the UN against Israel, members of the General Assembly may take voluntary, collective action instead...'
