By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--March 22, 2017
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“Yes, that laughably ironic misnomer known as the United Nations, where nations are united only in their hatred of Israel, is now under the kind of scrutiny it has never before experienced. For decades, the UN received a blank check of $8 billion from the United States, and allowed unpaid parking tickets to accumulate with diplomatic immunity. “American presidents never bothered to ask what the United States was getting for its money other than hundreds of resolutions condemning its ally — Israel, while rogue states that slaughtered millions and gave barbarism a bad name got away without even a summons. “The Trump administration, however, is now sending a forceful message that the UN must be held accountable for its moral hypocrisy, fecklessness and theatrical obsession with Israel. For nearly its entire 70-year existence, the UN, coincidentally located on 42nd Street, has acted as if it is a Broadway theatre and not an international peacekeeping enterprise — replete with costumes, comedy and sanctimonious melodrama on matters that do little to benefit humankind. The examples are endless, with Israel as global fall guy. “UN Security Council Resolution 2334 redrew Israel’s 1967 border in contravention of the UN’s own earlier pronouncements. UNESCO passed a resolution denying any Jewish link to the holy sites of Jerusalem. And just last week, the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia published a report labeling Israel as an apartheid state. “Worse still, the UN’s Human Rights Council (HRC), a lowbrow farce with a penchant for Shakespearean tragedy, has exclusively been in the “bash Israel” business. Take, for example, the Goldstone Report, that investigation into the Gaza War of 2009, with its one-sided rebuke of Israel and the eternal stigma (and lie) that it targeted not Hamas terrorists but innocent civilians.”
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