A few more thoughts on the UN

The UN consists of many permanent organizations (PERMANENT being a key word here). There is of course the General Assembly (notice the first three letters of the second word…), there is UNESCO, UNHCR, etc, etc. All these were established by the GA as a kind of “General Purpose” organization for a specific problem. For example, UNESCO is essentially an organization whose purpose it is to better the world through education. A noble goal, and UNESCO applies itself in all places and countries where the local population is unable to provide education (of all levels) for itself. UNESCO has no particular target group, you can find UNESCO all over the globe.
UNHCR is another example of a UN organization that attempts to take on a global problem. Refugees (wether caused by war, natural disaster or other causes) are a phenomenon of all times and all places, a tragedy as old as mankind, and the UN’s decision to dedicate a major body for just this cause is justified.
There are other areas where the UN has seen fit to call into life an organization with a particular goal, where that goal had a global character. UNICEF for example fights for children’s rights and protection across the globe.

However, there is one group of people on this Earth who, according to the UN, deserves the dedication of separate and distinct (though otherwise entirely similar) organizations. Whereas UNESCO and UNHCR are entirely capable to cover the entire globe for their respective jurisdictions, they are deemed unfit or insufficient to include the Palestinian Arabs in their domain. So the UN has created separate bodies to take care of business, just for the Palestinian Arabs. No other group of human beings is thought worthy of such special attention, is thought to have suffered so much, is subject to such oppression and torture.

The following is a list (not a complete one though) of UN organizations dedicated solely to the cause of the Palestinian Arabs.

• There is a body to represent the Palestinian Arabs And Their Inalienable Rights
• There is a body to represent the Palestinian Arab “refugees”
• There is UNISPAL (guess what that means!)
• There is the Division for Palestinian rights.
• And of course there is UNRWA, the UN’s refugee protection organization (didn’t they already have one? Yes, but another one was needed for the Palestinian Arab “refugees”, see?). As they so proudly boast on their homepage, they are by far the largest UN organization in the Middle-East.

Want more on the special status the Palestinian Arabs have in the UN?

• There were 462 speeches concerning the Palestinian Arabs. For a comparison, there were NONE concerning the Kurds
• There were 195 resolutions adopted (thus not counting the ones where the US veto’ed a SC resolution) on issues regarding the Palestinian Arabs. For a comparison, there was one (yes, 1) concerning the Kurds.
• The Office of the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict is dedicated to protecting children during armed conflicts everywhere. It mentions several countries specifically, but conspicuously omits any reference to the abuse of children by Arabs in their war against Israel.

For a more exhaustive list of UN misbehaviours go here.

The UN is obsessed with Israel. It is not only the Arab countries, Muslim countries and all those at the end of their financial leash however that suffer from this compulsion.
Europe too is obsessed with Israel. It should be clear by now that, judging from the disproportionate volume of UN interference alone, European meddling is motivated by something other than mere concern for the Palestinian Arabs, and the desire for a balanced and fair settlement to the conflict.

The Arab/Muslim hatred for Israel has become such matter-of-fact that is taken for granted by the world at large. What is less apparent for most people is that the block vote cast in the UN by the Arab/Muslim world and their stooges world effectively and realistically invalidates any resolition concerning Israel.

The crux is this: The democratic principles on which the UN was founded are used against anyone who holds those principles high. Voting - and especially the automatical blockvoting - by the Arab/Muslim world and their financial hostages renders worthless anything the General Assembly has to say on issues regarding Israel.

In the Security Council the situation is slightly different, but only slightly. Five countries can use their vote to veto resolutions they disagree with, an option not available to any country represented in the GA. But this knife cuts both ways. And as Israel has only one friend in the SC (and a tentative one at that), there are always at least three countries ready to lend an ear to the best paying party in town - and guess who that is? Apart ftom the (by now) traditional antagonism the UK routinely displays towards Israel, from the four other countries that have vetopower (France, China, Russia and the UK) only the UK can be said to be on the side of the US. This means that any resolution concerning Israel the US would like to see adopted, the other three are likely to veto.
It also means that even resolutions that have nothing to do with Israel may cause the US to compromize on Israel's security, merely in order to gain the support or at least abstinence of France, China and/or Russia as a form of quid pro quo.

The UN is bankrupt. It has been for a long time. The idea of the UN is based on a faulty premise, which is that any (new) member would be as "decent" (at least as democratic) as the countries originally founding the UN.
Most memberstates are not. The UN has become a perversion of the noble idea that lies at its roots, a place where dictators and autocracies get to act as decent nations and are subsequently treated as such.
As I said earlier, it took a World War to end the UN's predecessor, the League of Nations. We may well already be in World War 3. Wether or not that's the case, the UN's expiration date has long passed. Time to get rid of it.