At
UN
On Syria,
Assad as Eye
Doctor, Israel
Charged with
Crocodile
Tears
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 13 --
Amid General
Assembly
speeches for
and mostly
against Bashar
al Assad of
Syria on
Monday
afternoon, the
real
question was
when the new
GA draft
resolution
would be
circulated and
what it would
say. Inner
City Press
asked UK
Permanent
Representative
Mark Lyall
Grant about
the draft.
"Ask the
Saudis," he
said.
Others
told Inner
City Press
that "the
Arabs" would
meet at 5 pm
on Friday
and then
decide how to
proceed.
Syrian
Ambassadar
Bashar
Ja'afari
told Inner
City Press,
they are in
disarray, they
are adding and
subtracting,
"waiting to
hear from
their
masters." But
where was the
draft?
Inside
the GA
chamber,
speakers in
defense of
Assad included
Nicaragua,
North
Korea, Belarus
and Iran,
whose
Permanent
Representative
told Inner
City Press
that because
he is on the
GA's General
Committee, he
notice that
the Syria
agenda item
hadn't been
put through
there.
Some
others, even
anti Assad,
said they were
surprised at
how the Qatari
President of
the General
Assembly had
proceeded. "If
we're saying
Assad
violates
international
law," one
said, "we
should be
careful to
follow the
procedures."
Nietzschean,
somehow.
There
were other
highbrow
references,
with Nicaragua
for example
saying the
NATO wants
hegemony, a
world not much
heard in the
UN anymore.
Israel's
Ambassador
Prosor riffed
that Assad may
have been
trained as an
eye
doctor, but
not he's
trying to
blind the
international
community.
Ja'afari
fired
back,
continuing in
the eye meme,
about Israel
shedding
crocodile
tears. Still
what was most
lacking at the
GA session
ended was a
draft on which
to vote. Watch
this site.
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