Posted by
Dan Hennessy on Thursday, September 27, 2007 12:33:27 PM
By Daniel Hennessy
What is the role of the United Nations in the 21st century? In a very real way, the U.N.’s persistent willingness to offer the perception of legitimacy to the Arafats and Ahmadinejads of the world provides high-octane fuel to the vicious dedication of the terrorist forces they train, finance, and arm, contributing directly to the effort to finish the work of Adolf Hitler. In its current role, the U.N. provides a direct power connection between the antisemitic values that drove the Holocaust of the Nazi Third Reich in the 20th century and the antisemitic values of the hoped for Holocaust driving the Islamic Jihadist Fourth Reich in the 21st century.
In her essay, “The U.N. and the Jews,” Anne Bayefsky, a professor of political science at York University in Toronto and an adjunct professor at Columbia University Law School, makes a reasonable case for viewing the U.N. with suspicion in relation to its actions toward Israel: “…in 1975 the UN General Assembly passed its notorious resolution explicitly equating Zionism with racism. Ever since then, and notwithstanding the formal repeal of the resolution in 1991, the repellent imagery of Israelis as racists has been a staple of UN rhetoric.”
“To judge by the UN's official pronouncements, the Jewish state is the world's archetypal human-rights villain. Over the past 40 years, almost 30 percent of the resolutions passed by the UN Commission on Human Rights to condemn specific states have been directed at Israel, which also has the distinction of being the only state to which the commission has devoted an entire item on its agenda.
“As for the General Assembly, of the ten emergency special sessions it has convened in its history, six have focused on the purported misdeeds of Israel. In 2003, the General Assembly passed eighteen resolutions that singled out Israel for criticism; human-rights situations in the rest of the world drew only four country-specific resolutions. Nor, despite serious and well-documented charges of abuse reported to the UN over the years from, among others, the organization's own special rapporteurs, has any resolution of the UN Commission on Human Rights ever been directed at China, Syria, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Yemen, Pakistan, Malaysia, Mali, or Zimbabwe.
“By Palestinians and others, Israelis are now routinely condemned with Nazi terminology—current resolutions speak of the "Judaization" of Jerusalem—or are themselves likened to Nazis.
Why does an international organization founded upon a mission to promote justice among the nations behave in extremist fashion toward one nation in particular? How has such flagrant intolerance persisted in light of five wars launched by the Arab nations in simple defiance of Israel's right to exist? How many resolutions have been passed against the Arab-Islamic terror campaign being waged against Israel since 1989? Why hasn't the U.N. investigated the original source of the "Palestinian" refugees' dilemma and placed accountability at the feet of the Arab nations, where it belongs, to re-absorb the Jordanians, Saudis, etc. that have never been allowed to return to their native countries since the pan-Arab leadership called them out of their homes just prior to attacking the internationally legitimized Jewish state?
The antisemitic attitude legitimized, authorized, and promoted by the United Nations should be seen as a form of harassment of the Jewish people at least; at its worst, it could be regarded as tacit approval of and disguised permission for the ongoing terrorist assault upon the people of Israel. Tragically, the actions of the U.N. against Israel must increasingly be considered as a form of institutionalized political policy meant to generate institutionalized hate. It must be critically regarded as a very well-orchestrated agenda that major world leaders continue to passively accept.
As Professor Bayefsky writes, "At the UN, Israelis and Jews are, by definition, oppressors, as are the nations and organizations that rally to their cause."
State-sponsored Arab mass media continues to spew antisemitic hate throughout the Arab world, to include propagation of such well known myths as Jewish blood libel and Jewish political conspiracies to rule the world. In this regard, not long ago the thoroughly debunked antisemitic conspiracy-based fiction employed by Nazi propagandists, "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion," was a bestseller in the Palestinian territories and throughout large parts of the Arab world. Arab state-sponsored television has conceived, produced, and broadcast multi-episodic programming that dramatizes grotesque antisemitic untruths about the Jewish people. Most despicable of all, state-sponsored Arab schools, from kindergarten age and up, promote antisemitic hate throughout their curricula, proscribing martyrdom and every form of violent confrontation with the Jewish people and those who dare support them. None of this is done primarily in the name of any mere human being or for the cause of any claim to human superiority. All of this is done in the name of a greater, more elevated cause: the will of Allah.
This is one reason why the world must view the current jihadist threat—and the United Nations' relationship to it—from an elevated point of view.
If I think about this from within the expanded parameters of transcendent reason, I hear myself say: “This is to be expected as the normal, logical course of events captured in the ancient texts which speak of the "beyond time and space realities" that foretell of this very behavior being played out in the exact geo-political format that exists today.”
We live in unprecedented times, more dangerous than the Nazi threat, more volatile than the Cold War. Which is why we must begin to consider our circumstances through an expanded framework of a more transcendent logic; a framework that allows free thinking in a more open-ended universe of thought than is normally allowed within the more restricted, convenient, and conventional circles of accepted political and philosophical dialogue.
Such a rigorous campaign of antisemitic political programming by such a pinnacle international organization can only be accounted for from a higher, more transcendent point of view. It is that view, and only that view, that provides conclusive insight into the role of the United Nations in the 21st century.