It’s official: The UN blames Israel for the world’s problems

It’s official: Kofi Annan and the UN are blaming all the ills of the world on Israel.

ISTANBUL, Turkey Nov 13, 2006 (AP)— U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday that any effort to stop growing violence between Islamic and Western societies must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Annan spoke after receiving a report from a high-level group of experts on ways to alleviate Muslim-Western clashes and misunderstandings.

“We may wish to think of the Arab-Israeli conflict as just one regional conflict amongst many,” said Annan, who leaves his post at the end of the year. “It is not. No other conflict carries such a powerful symbolic and emotional charge among people far removed from the battlefield.”

Muslims murdering Christians in Thailand? It’s Israel’s fault.

Arab Muslims murdering black African Christians and Animists in Sudan? It’s Israel’s fault.

Al Qaeda flying planes into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon? Israel’s fault.

Al Qaeda blowing up commuters during rush hour in Madrid? Israel’s fault.

Al Qaeda-inspired terrorists blowing up British commuters? Israel’s fault.

The Taliban taking over Afghanistan and turning it into a medieval theocracy that forbids kite-flying, women’s education, or any kind of Western influence? Israel’s fault.

All of these could have been prevented, if only there had been a palestinian state next to Israel. Of course. If only we had known that that is what it took, we could have worked harder!

Of course, in the next breath, Kofi Annan also denies that there is a religious war going on. It’s all politics, you see.

ISTANBUL, Turkey Nov 13, 2006 (AP)— Political tensions, rather than religious differences, are the source of the rift between the West and the Muslim world, and any resolution must include an end to the Arab-Israeli conflict, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Monday.

“We should start by reaffirming and demonstrating that the problem is not the Quran or the Torah or the Bible,” Annan said after receiving a report by an international group of scholars that proposes ways to overcome the divide. “The problem is never the faith, it is the faithful and how they behave toward each other.”

With brilliant insight like this, you can see how the UN, under Kofi’s rule, has done so much to reduce conflict in the world. (Why, yes, that was sarcasm, why do you ask?)

Oh, yes. And it’s also the West’s fault.

Annan, who will relinquish his post to Ban Ki-moon on Jan. 1, said violence was fueled by fear and misunderstandings, economic disparities, wars by Western powers in Muslim countries and the Arab-Israeli conflict.

“Wars by Western powers in Muslim countries”—why, it’s practically the Al Qaeda talking points. Do you think he means Iraq 1 or Iraq 2? Iraq 1, you may remember, is what sparked Osama bin Laden to start his war against America. I guess Kofi was just fine with letting Saddam have Kuwait, and would have turned a blind eye towards his taking Saudi Arabia. Wait, around that time, wasn’t Kofi ignoring or about to ignore the massacres in Rwanda? I wonder if he thinks those were Israel’s fault, too.

By the way, that “high-level group of experts” that put together the report? Two renowned Israel-haters were among them.

Former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami and South African activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu, are among 20 members of the group. The report said the Arab-Israeli conflict is a critical symbol of the deepening rift between the West and Islam, and calls for the resumption of the Middle East peace process.

Are we surprised at the findings? No. Are we glad Kofi Annan is leaving the UN? Party time, dudes. The cats are getting tunafish on the day he leaves.

I suspect I will have more on this later.