If you were concerned that the United Nations is spending too much time on the massacres of civilians in Syria, or on the ongoing arrests of journalists in Turkey, or on the repression of women in Egypt, or on the persecution and murder of Christians in Nigeria and across the Arab Spring countries – you can set your mind at ease. Today, the UN Security Council will be focused on Israel:
The UN Security Council will on Wednesday hear a briefing on the humanitarian situation in the occupied Palestinian territories which the United States had opposed… Valerie Amos, the UN humanitarian coordinator, will give details on the impact of Israeli settlements at the UN Security Council meeting on Wednesday morning as part of discussions on the Middle East, diplomats said. Morocco officially made the request for the briefing as the Arab representative on the 15-member council. The briefing would be “useful,” said Morocco’s UN ambassador Mohammed Loulichki.
The AFP description that Morocco “officially made the request” is a little muted. What actually happened is that Morocco replaced Lebanon on the Security Council – yes, Iran’s Hezbollah-controlled proxy state has just now stepped down – and immediately hijacked a session on Children and Armed Conflict to demand time to talk about Israeli settlements.
Morocco’s electoral scene is dominated by the Islamist Justice and Development Party. Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara was picked out by Freedom House [PDF] for its “Worst of the Worst 2011″ list. And of course there’s something basically hypocritical about sidelining a genuine human rights issue to posture about human rights. But since this is the UN, it took just more than a week for Morocco to get its anti-Israel spectacle.
At the end of November, the UN’s Middle East peace envoy blamed the Middle East deadlock on Israeli settlement construction. Days after that, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, on a call to Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu about Palestinian funds, took the opportunity to criticize Israeli settlement construction. A few weeks later, Ambassador Rice – no particular fan of Israeli settlement construction – was moved to condemn the sum of the UN’s anti-Israel focus as “obsessive” and “ugly.” A week after that, the UNSC tried to issue a condemnation about Israeli settlement construction.
So you can see how the Moroccans might think there’s not enough time being spent at the UN on Israeli settlement construction.
And we keep borrowing money from China to enable the continuation of this mess!
But in the end it doesn't matter. If through some bizarre confluence of events the UN focused on something, anything else, it would not and could not and will never accomplish a thing. 'Accomplishing' things or even holding to the charter it was founded on is not it's job any longer. Hasn't been since the late 1960's. The UN lives and probably always live in this weird world of mid century third world militancy and violence we once called the communist revolution and now is called Islamism. But in truth it's never matter what you called it. It's violence and anarchy and the codification of tribal organized criminal gangs as 'states' and 'nations'. While there's no strict cause and effect relationship more people have died under the aegis of the UN's peaceful mission than were killed in WW2, WW1 and every conflict in the history of people, put together. And while it's mission is not strictly speaking, death and genocide and mayhem, it's charter, in truth is, the tolerance of those things in the pursuit of the agendas of those criminal gangs that control the UN.
The whole world knows that Israel's settlement construction is the problem and are increasingly speaking out about it. Your PM is a fool and a liar to the world. Your settlers are religious fanatics from hell that view non-Jews as sub-human and act accordingly. Its not just settlement construction that bothers the world but who the settlers are with their messianic, racist and expansionist goal of a Greater Israel without non-Jews and includes much of the Mid-East. Simply put the world is quite fed up with Israel, its behavior and arrogance.
"Its not just settlement construction that bothers the world but who the settlers are with their messianic, racist and expansionist goal of a Greater Israel without non-Jews and includes much of the Mid-East." n nWhat kind of mental gymnastics did you have to jump through to imagine the world is bothered by the threat of Jewish extremism, and this imaginary plan to invade "much of the Mid-East"? I can only interpret "without non-Jews" to mean that you fear they will kill countless millions, or drive them into Europe. I suggest you read the Hamas charter some time: n n*[Peace] initiatives, the so-called peaceful solutions, and the international conferences to resolve the Palestinian problem, are all contrary to the beliefs of the Islamic Resistance Movement. n nFor renouncing any part of Palestine means renouncing part of the religion; the nationalism of the Islamic Resistance Movement is part of its faith, the movement educates its members to adhere to its principles and to raise the banner of Allah over their homeland as they fight their Jihad… …There is no solution to the Palestinian problem except by Jihad. (Hamas Charter, Article 15)* n n nI propose you take a learning trip around the ME, with Israel as the final destination. I would look forward to your report on which religious fanatics see you "as sub-human and act accordingly", but I doubt you'd ever make it to Israel. n nPlease don't presume to lump "The whole world" in with your sordid imagination.