Libya spurs UN protest with Nazi remark

by the Associated Press

The United States, Britain, France and other members walked out of a closed meeting of the UN Security Council late Wednesday after Libya compared the situation in Gaza to Nazi concentration camps in World War II, council diplomats said.

The walkout was a rare protest by diplomats on the UN's most powerful body against one of their own members. Libya is the only Arab representative on the council.

According to several diplomats, Libya's deputy UN Ambassador Ibrahim Dabbashi ended a long speech about the plight of the Palestinians by comparing the situation in Gaza to the concentration camps set up by Nazi Germany to exterminate Jews. Some 6 million Jews and between 220,000 and 500,000 Gypsies were killed during the Nazi Holocaust.

Immediately after Dabbashi mentioned the concentration camps, diplomats said, French Ambassador Jean-Maurice Ripert, US deputy ambassador Alejandro Wolff, Britain's deputy ambassador Karen Pierce, Belgian Ambassador Johan Verbeke and Costa Rica's deputy ambassador walked out of the council's consultation room.

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I do believe this is the first time that the US, Great Britain and France walked out of a session all together. A bad move since they could have passed an number of resolutions without getting a veto from anyone. But a nice sign that maybe France and Great Britain are starting to wake up from their long multi-cultural slumber .

For the record. Gaza is nothing like a concentration camp.

This was Auschwitz. It was a Concentration Camp. 4 million people were murdered there. 3 million of them were Jews!

This is Gaza. 1.4 million people live there. 4 million people weren' t murdered there.

Notice the difference?