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From Frontpage Magazine:

This Passover marks the fifth year anniversary of two separate bloody massacres by Hamas suicide bombers. Altogether, more than fifty innocent Israeli civilians, mostly seniors and children, were murdered in those two incidents alone.

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How did the United Nations choose to commemorate these twin Passover slaughters of innocent Jews during the days and weeks leading up to this year’s Passover observance? As usual, it ignored any mention of Israeli loss of life. Instead, the UN turned on Israel, serving as the most convenient vehicle for Islamic propaganda aimed at destroying the legitimacy of Israel in the world’s eyes. The Islamists are relying on the gullibility of the world’s politically correct elite to validate their tale of victimhood at the hands of Israeli "oppressors."

John Duggard, UN Special Raporteur on Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and perennial purveyor of anti-Semitic blood libel, exemplifies this phenomenon. In his March 22, 2007 statement to the Human Rights Council, Duggard repeated his rote attack on Israel’s measures to protect its people from terrorist attacks launched from Gaza (no longer occupied) and from the West Bank. He accused Israel of practicing “colonialism and apartheid” in the Palestinian territory.

Missing from Duggard’s report are all of the terrorist provocations that have led to the present situation. Time and again the Palestinians could have had their own independent state, but the rejectionists in their camp have spurned all reasonable offers – including a peace offer brokered by President Clinton that would have given the Palestinians 95% of the occupied territories for their own state. Duggard omits any historical context that would explain how Israel only occupied the Palestinian territories in the first place for defensive reasons after fending off Arab attacks across these territories during the 1967 Six Days War – nearly twenty years following Israel’s creation by the United Nations as a Jewish state within the borders of Israel proper. If Israel’s Arab neighbors had accepted the UN’s original terms, the Palestinians could have been living in their own land free of any Israeli interference for the last sixty years. And there would have been no Palestinian refugees to speak of because their plight was only created when the Arab nations spurned the UN’s original terms and tried to destroy Israel at its birth.

Indeed, Duggard matter-of-factly admitted that his report “makes no attempt to describe the violations of Israelis’ human rights by Palestinians, by means of suicide bombers or Qassam rockets” because his mandate was limited to “the occupation of a developing country by a developed, Western-affiliated regime.” And that is precisely the way he likes it, adding that “I do not believe that the Human Rights Council should change this mandate.” In other words, according to the UN’s Special Raporteur on Human Rights, Israeli children who are blown up to bits by Hamas terrorists have no human rights important enough to worry about. Their protection does not count in calculating the reasonableness of the measures Israel has been forced to use in their defense.

For its part, the Human Rights Council continued to focus almost exclusively on Israel as a serial violator of the Palestinians’ human rights. When UN Watch representative, Hillel Neuer, made some brief but pointed remarks before the 4th session of the Human Rights Council on March 23, 2007 criticizing the Council for its hypocrisy in targeting Israel while brushing over the far more egregious atrocities in Muslim dictatorships like Sudan, the President of the Council, Mexico's Luis Alfonso de Alba, refused to discuss the substance of Neuer’s remarks. Instead, he lashed out at Neuer for daring to pierce through the thick veil of lies that permeates the Council’s resolutions, declaring that “any statement you make in similar tones to those used today will be taken out of the records.” Censorship of the truth is now the official modus operandi of the UN’s Human Rights Council.

Well it is the UN we are talking about.

The truth is that any group, whether a nation or a church or a civic organization or an international assembly, takes its character from the constituent members. And not from an equal blending of the members, but from the character of those who are the most active and vocal.

If the bulk of those who bother to show up and participate are good and decent then the organization will be good and decent. If the majority of the "movers and shakers" are corrupt and evil then that is what the organization will be.

The great majority of the nations which make up the United Nations are unfree dictatorships, theocracies and kleptocracies of one stripe or another. Even the Security Counsel is corrupted by the presence in its five permanent members of Russia and Red China and France (the bought and paid for representative of the Islamic world) and its non-permanent members currently include Belgium and Italy (another pair of Eurabian nations) Qatar, an Islamic kingdom, South Africa, Ghana, Congo (do we need to go into details about Africa in general?). Let's not forget Panama which has become a client of Red China and Islamic Indonesia and Peru (which cocaine cartel is in charge there this year?). The only Security Council member I trust other than the US and (for now - sort of) the UK is Slovakia, they know what it was to live under the Soviet lash and are in no hurry to submit to tyranny again.

The UN is useless because the handful of good nations are swamped by the bad nations. It is as though the US legislature was dominated by the Democrat Party with no hope of Republicans ever regaining power (like what will happen if we grant amnesty and citizenship to illegal Mexicans).

Under those circumstances there is simply no reason for the US to continue its involvement with the UN. That we do continue to remain in it and continue to fund it as we do is, I'm convinced, a part of the reason why creatures like bin Laden view us as weak and vulnerable.