Palestinian
Invite
Triggers
Israel
Snarking on No
Abbas or
Egyptian Fuel
in Gaza
By
Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 28 --
Palestine has
invited the UN
Security
Council
for a visit,
as its
Observer Riyad
Mansour told
Inner City
Press on
Monday, but
they also have
a "Plan B" if
the United
States
says no. That
plan, Inner
City Press is
told, is to
send separate
invitations to
each Council
member, all at
the same time.
On
camera
on Tuesday,
Inner City
Press asked
Mansour if
there is any
reason to
believe that
the US won't
say no to such
a trip, as its
Ambassador
Susan Rice did
after vetoing
a Council
resolution on
settlements.
While Mansour
said there is
no reason to
prejudge and
there will be
a meeting
later Tuesday
about Council
trips, already
politically
attuned
sources are
picturing a
"photo op with
Rice
at Arafat's
grave," during
this election
season.
Somehow it
seems
unlikely.
Israel's
Permanent
Representative
Ron Prosor
quipped that
before the
Council goes,
"Abbas should
go to Gaza,"
saying he
hasn't been
there
since 2007. He
had circulated
a letter to
Secretary
General Ban
Ki-moon and
the Togolese
President of
the Security
Council, ten
rockets, ten
days, no
statement.
Inner
City
Press asked
Prosor how
this complaint
jibes with his
evidence
pride in
having
advocated and
obtained the
recent Council
statement
on attacks
against
Israeli
diplomats in
New Delhi and
Tbilisi (but
not Bangkok).
Prosor
expressed
satisfaction
with the
statement, but
noted it was
about attacks
on diplomats
overseas,
while rockets
were
strictly Gaza
to Israel.
Prosor
also
advocated
against a
Council trip
by saying
there is no
humanitarian
crisis in
Gaza. Inner
City Press
asked him
about the
power plant in
Gaza; he
replied it is
Egypt that
doesn't let
fuel in. And
so it
goes at the
UN. Watch this
site.
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