He might think of it as a speech, but I think of it as a confession (PDF format)
On one side, supporters of Israel feel it is harshly judged, by standards that are not applied to its enemies, and too often this is true, particularly in some UN bodies.
And then he goes on to harshly judge Israel by standards that are not applied to its enemies by whining about disproportionate force.
No, really. Check the document. And then when the streaming video is up, get out a stopwatch and see how long it takes for him to reveal that he is one of those “some UN bodies.”
What is disproportionate force, Kofi? Have you looked outside and seen what your police escorts and bodyguards and motorcades are doing to Manhattan traffic? Is that considered disproportionate, too, or is that just “necessary precautions” against potential attacks by those wishing to see you wiped off the map and scattered like dust?
Just to show where the leash trails back to, he also sneaks in an the Arabist/Islamist reference to “occupied and confiscated land” where he hopes the apologists will think “Gaza, West Bank, and Golan” when we all know he’s thinking “Every square inch.”
He babbles about the horrors in Darfur, but he could just as well be talking about Rwanda. Or Kosovo. Or East Timor. Or other places where his reign as head of Peacekeeping Operations caused millions of innocents to die.
Rotten to the core, rotten to the top.
You know what? UN Representative John Bolton was wrong about one thing… taking out just the top floors.
It’s time to knock down all the floors of the HQ building. Every damn one of them, down to the sub-basement levels and garages.
No more League Of Nations 1.1. It’s time for a League of Democratic and Civilized Nations.
Oh man. Can’t it be converted to a hostel or a zoo? Waste not – want not as Scots say…
From Dore Gold, Israel’s U.N. ambassador from 1997 to 1999:
“In Rwanda, when General Romeo Dallaire, the UN commander on the ground, proposed to the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, headed by Kofi Annan, that it was necessary to destroy the arms of the Hutu militia before they were used to exterminate the Tutsi tribe, he was told by Annan’s office to not take sides–indeed, he was instructed to remain “impartial”. More than eight hundred thousand Rwandans were massacred within a few months.”
Kofi Annan (“Monkey Cloud” in Hebrew) is a morally weak man. When one is in a position of ultimate influence at the UN, morally weak quickly translates to evil.
“…a League of Democratic and Civilized Nations.”
Following is a list of nations that are still Democratic and civilized:
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That would indeed be a very small and close-knit group. They don’t even need a building. They could meet in a phone booth…