In the middle East debate in the security Council shows, once again, the ritualized helplessness of the panel. But then UN-Ambassador Heusgen, the word and sparked a discussion.

war. The word power in the security Council to the round. War on Gaza. The middle East special envoy, Nikolai Mladenoff sits in the security Council, looking at the round and says that the last 48 hours have shown how insanely close you are standing on the brink of war.

A rocket the Hamas had enough. And the German Ambassador to the UN, Christoph Heusgen, it is sufficient.

“These reports by the special envoy are one of the most depressing Exercises in the security Council,” said Heusgen. 14 speakers read in front of him a written Talk – the ritual of the impotence of the security Council. Heusgen, however, talks freely and bluntly on top of that: “Why not put your required to Talk to the side and tell me how you intend, the existing Resolution?”

By rocket fire from the Gaza strip was Israel with air strikes on the area.

violation of international law

The German Ambassador goes even further. After the US representative defended in his reading speech, the recognition of the Golan heights as Israeli territory – a clear violation of international law, and attacked Heusgen, the US.

Our American colleague has just told us, they will now also be in breach of, nor against, the Golanresolution, after you were already Jerusalem as its capital, recognized and against the Resolution.” And Heusgen is not yet finished: resolutions were legally binding, he says. But here you only hear of the rupture of the international order.