"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Peter Kemp wrote:

Because he was about to be freed of UN restriction.

No, he wasn't. The US had explicitly said (and the UK too IIRC) that
they would veto any attempt to lift sanctions until Iraq was given a
clean bill of health by UNMOVIC.

I think he was, either by official UN lifting of sanctions, or by
increasingly
ignoring them by more and more parties.

Hard to Ignore a 5"54 accross the bow.

France and Russia, and to lesser degree Germany I believe, were
increasingly
pushing to remove them [sanctions] and move on.


Of course thay had contracts to exploit



If it weren't for US vetos, the UN would probably have voted a
resolution
calling for the "disbandment" of the Israeli state!

Care to say who in the UN would enforce that? I would guess a good part of
euorpe would be in range of Isreali missles.

Certainly. I didn't mean an actual UNSCR calling for the extinction of
Israel, merely
an examply of what they would try if they could...and they might even get
significantly
close to a majority vote on it [if it were possible]!

Is anti Semitism still rampant in Europe?