OIC-Driven U.N. launches probe into alleged Israeli “war crimes” in Gaza

Pamela Geller / Atlas Shrugs

Jews defending themselves is a “war crime.” The US underwrites close to 25% of the UN budget; why must the US taxpayer fund this annihilationist organization?

I am sure that the mullahs and their lapdogs at the UN were surprised by the US criticism in response to this “war crimes” propaganda. I am sure that they were counting on a weak and meaningless Obama flapping his relentless tongue. But U.S. ambassador Keith Harper, calling for a vote, said that the resolution was “destructive” and a “political and biased instrument.” “Once again, this Council fails to address the situation in Israel and in the Palestinian territories with any semblance of balance.

There is no mention of indiscriminate rocket attacks by Hamas into Israel or the tunnels used to cause mayhem.”

The UN is not fixable.

The idea that the holocaust was the impetus behind the creation of the UN is a monstrous irony. Sixty years ago, democracies, both nascent and well established, comprised the majority of the founding nations of the UN. The members of the General Assembly

were strategically aligned primarily along what would become the lines of the Cold War. America was confident that the UN would be an organization which would work in tandem with American national interests in promoting the welfare of humankind and the basic rights of every human spirit.

We could not have been more wrong. Because within 20 years, global politics and the UN had been wildly altered. By...

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