The Anti-Semitic History of the United Nations
12 Aug 2006
The United Nations is about as useless as an umbrella in a category five hurricane. Still, thanks to its delusions of grandeur and belief in humanity’s innate goodness, it persists in pontificating and passing papier-mâché resolutions. Believing peace can be imposed upon our world by the presumptuous acts of pompous international diplomats, the United Nations hurled another one of its paper wad resolutions at the Middle East yesterday. Like all that have preceded it, this latest resolution will also end up in the dustbin of irrelevance.
Since 1948, the United Nations has passed hundreds of resolutions concerning the Middle East. Interestingly, while hundreds of these resolutions have condemned Israel, none of them have condemned Israel’s sworn enemy the Palestinian Liberation Organization—a terrorist organization whose late leader Yasser Arafat was not only invited to speak at the U.N., but also given a standing ovation there.
In 1977, the United Nations called for the annual observance of November 29th as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. What makes this U.N. action especially worthy of note is the fact that never before or since has the U.N. dedicated a particular day to a specific people group. At an event celebrating last year’s International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, U.N. General Secretary Kofi Annan and other high ranking U.N. diplomats were seen in front of a prominently displayed map that erased the state of Israel. The fact that this event took place just days after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad threatened to “wipe Israel off the map,” led our ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, to write a letter of protest to the General Secretary for lending himself to such an anti-Israeli affair.
Throughout its history, the United Nations has proven itself to be anti-Semitic, as well as completely incapable of steadying the “trembling cup” that God is now putting to the lips of our world (Zechariah 12:1-3). Take yesterday’s resolution for example, while it calls for a full cessation of hostilities in Lebanon, it was not created under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter, which authorizes military enforcement. Thus, yesterday’s resolution is little more than a Rodney King—“Why can’t we all get along?”—moment.
Realizing that the United Nations was a paper tiger, Saddam Hussein turned his nose up at 17 consecutive U.N. resolutions. After all, why should the Iraqi dictator have bowed to an international body without teeth or intestinal fortitude? Although he miscalculated the U.N.’s ability to keep the world’s sole remaining superpower in check with world opinion, he was right about having nothing to fear from the U.N. itself, except, of course, those incessant paper wad resolutions hurled in his direction.
Like Saddam Hussein, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah—the leader of Hezbollah and instigator of the current conflict in Lebanon—will no more fear yesterday’s U.N. resolution than he does a horsefly. He too understands that sticks and stones may break his bones, but words will never hurt him. Thus, he’ll balk at U.N. paper wads hurled in his direction and continue firing deadly Katyusha rockets; that is, until Iran supplies him with something far more lethal to fire into Israel.
Don Walton
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