U.S. Vetoes UN Resolution

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061111/wl_nm/mideast_un_dc
By Irwin Arieff
Sat Nov 11, 4:26 PM ET
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States vetoed on Saturday a U.N. Security Council resolution urging an immediate withdrawal of [Zionist] Israeli forces from Gaza and condemning a [Zionist] Israeli attack there that killed 19 Palestinian civilians.



http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-gaza12nov12,0,1153501.story?coll=la-home-world
By Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer
November 12, 2006
Palestinian U.N. observer Riyad Mansour told the Security Council that the vote was a double disappointment.
"You have conveyed today two wrong messages," he said after the vote. "For [Zionist] Israel, you have conveyed to them they can continue to behave above international law. For the Palestinian people, you have conveyed that justice is not being dealt with in a proper way."



http://aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=12404
11/12/2006 8:00:00 PM GMT
Hamas, now the ruling Party, slammed the U.S. for vetoing a UN Security Council draft resolution condemning the [Zionist] Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip and demanding an Israeli troop withdrawal from the territory.
"The American veto represents a political and moral aggression against our people and national cause, an ugly act of racism, and a direct encouragement of the Zionist enemy to commit more crimes and massacres," the group said in a statement.