If the left really wants to end the occupation of Palestine, it should work with those Israelis and Palestinians who still share a vision of two states, free from religious fundamentalism, with women's rights front and center and two nations side-by side - before it's too late.
And the Chinese, whose economy is already more open than that of many nations, sided with India.
In a compromise between Western countries urging rapid action and Asian nations siding with Myanmar, no measures would take effect until Nov. 30.
The 50 nations siding against Israel called for "international protection" of the warring Palestinians, thereby encouraging Arafat to continue his violence.
Through the end of the Civil War, people in the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole and Cherokee nations owned and exploited African-Americans as slaves, and factions of the nations sided with the Confederacy during the war.
It is suddenly a relevant statistic now that Martin Johnson's team cannot face a Tri-Nations side before the final, should they reach it.
The powerful Samoan players will match the South Africans physically, and if they take their chances as they did against Australia, another victory over a Tri-Nations side is well within reach.
It was England's first win over a Tri-Nations side at Twickenham in four years and it was done with a flourish which Australia had been thought most likely to provide and which had been absent under Andy Robinson, Brian Ashton and, since 2008, Martin Johnson.
There is no appetite on the six-nation side to repeat the Baghdad experience.
To judge by the television pictures, every city has united in celebrating the nation side's progress.
