I think the UN long ago outlived its purpose. Has it prevented any wars? Stopped any genocides? Stopped rogue nations from developing nuclear weapons? Really, has it done much other than send its peacekeepers out to rape little girls (and boys), suck up billions of our tax dollars, and regularly condemned Israel?
Why the current rant? Well, Libya is now president of the UN Security Council. Isn’t that special.
The Israeli mission to the United Nations protested on Wednesday the stinging absence of kidnapped Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev from a briefing held on December 21st. Ambassador Dan Gillerman issued a letter to newly instated Security Council President Giadalla Ettalhi of Libya on his first day in office and questioned why the abducted soldiers were ignored in a briefing titled ‘ Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question.’
“Though the briefing rightfully informed the Council that the ‘Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit is spending his nineteenth month in captivity in Gaza,’ it neglected to mention that Corporal Shalit has been denied any contact with the outside world, including visits from humanitarian and medical organizations like the Red Cross,” wrote Gillerman.
“Similarly, the briefing omitted the kidnapped Israeli soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, abducted by Hizbullah terrorists in an unprovoked cross-border attack on 12 July 2006, which also resulted in the killing of three other soldiers.
I’m anxious to hear the Libyan ambassador’s response, especially because we were told Libya would treat all nations fairly.
Libya will take Qatar’s place in the Council – Qatar itself has taken its turn as the Council’s president.
“We expect Libya, both as a member of this important council, and especially when acting as its president, to follow the Security Council’s guidelines,” Roee Leshno-Yaar, deputy director-general of international affairs in the Foreign Ministry told Ynet.
“We expect it to act fairly and without prejudice to all the nations in the UN, including Israel,” he added.
Shyeah. That’ll happen.
“;We expect it to act fairly and without prejudice to all the nations in the UN, including Israel,’†he added.
And I expect Lucy lawless to show up on my doorstep asking if she can come up and get out of these wet clothes.
Our expectations are approximately of equal likelihood.
The day that Israel gets its turn as President of the Security Council will be the day that the U.N. is actually a valid organization. Of course that will only happen after the Mashiach announces who he is appointing as Israeli ambassador to the organization.
The only time the UN actually did anything (as opposed to passing resolutions that get ignored, and charging lots of money for the privilege) was run the Korean War. And we know what a fiasco that was – we were forbidden from actually trying to win it, guaranteeing that the fight would be as bloody and drawn-out as possible.
And as the ultimate statement of what the UN stands for, that war never ended. It’s still on. We’ve been living with an extended cease-fire for all these years, but without any actual resolution of the actual problems, and without either side declaring an end to hostilities.