United Nations "Peace Keeping"?
Tell That To The Dead!
By
Alan Caruba
Americans have been conditioned for decades to seek negotiations with our enemies and to demand that Israel do the same with theirs. We have been told that the United Nations will provide a forum for such negotiations to end the prospect of a Third World War. I suggest that the United Nations is the last place on earth to achieve this.
This weekend, both President Bush and PLO Chairman, Yassir Arafat, will be at the United Nations. With any luck, the President will not have to be photographed with this terrorist. If peace is ever achieved in the Middle East, it will not be because the United Nations had anything to do with it.
The United Nations' many Muslim nations have tried, via a series of resolutions, to wrest a victory over Israel they could not achieve on the ground. Its many Muslim member nations, taking their orders from a corrupt and oppressive leadership have long been arrayed in their hatred against the United States.
It is, therefore, an irony that Osama bin Laden recently called the United Nations the root of Muslim suffering, scorning Arab leaders as infidels in league with the world body. Like all fanatical Muslims, bin Laden traces Islam's problems to the creation of the nation of Israel in 1948. "Those who claim to be Arab leaders and whose countries are UN members are infidels who renounced the Koran and the Prophet Mohammed's teachings when they resorted to international legitimacy instead of resorting to the Koran." What bin Laden also managed to do was inform the current leaders of the same nations that supported him that he was gunning for them as well.
Barely a week before the World Trade Center attack, the US pulled out of a United Nations conference on bigotry that was nothing more than a forum for Islamic hatred of Israel and an idiotic demand that America pay reparations to its African-American population.
In October, Syria, one of seven nations our government designates as a state sponsor of terrorism, was elected as a non-permanent member of the UN Security Council. Among the groups headquartered in Damascus, Syria today are Amad Jibril's Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine's general command, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, Abu Musa's Fatah-the-Intifada, and George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
In the General Assembly, Syria's elevation to the Security Council received 160 votes from the 178 nations voting. This is the United Nations at work!
The United Nation's record of "peacekeeping" has been a wretched failure. Only the military might of the United States has imposed peace where it has ceased to exist. The most recent example was the Persian Gulf war. An earlier one was the Korean "police action." Since the 1950's the United States has maintained troops on the 38th parallel to deter Communist North Korea. That is determination! That is our commitment to fight the aggression of any authoritarian regime.
Here's the United Nation's definition of "peacekeeping." In 1957, Israel withdrew from the Sinai Peninsula, having been promised that UN troops would insure it was demilitarized and its neighboring straits would be kept open to Israeli shipping. A decade later, in May 1967, the UN Secretary General immediately complied with Egyptian president Gamal Nasser's demand that their troops leave. Within days, Egypt attacked Israel.
In one United Nations resolution after another, the UN has condemned Israel's right to defend itself against its enemies from within and beyond its borders. In every way possible, the United Nations has tried to accommodate Middle Eastern nations in their effort to win the war they have waged ceaselessly against another Member State, Israel.
As early as November 29, 1947, it was trying to divide Israel into two states. A year later in 1948, after the first Arab-Israeli war, a United Nations resolution condemned Israel for the "dispossession" of Arabs who fled the conflict, never mentioning the thousands of Jews from Arab states who also fled, but to Israel for their lives.
In 1974, the United Nations hosted a visit from Yassir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who addressed the General Assembly wearing a gun!
Never making any judgement between aggressor and victim, in recent years the United Nations stood by while 250,000 died in Bosnia and 900,000 died in Rwanda. The current Secretary General, Kofi Annan, was the UN director of the Rwandan peacekeeping mission who was deaf, dumb and blind to the massacres. Yet this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize praised Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator, as a reasonable, wise leader. He "negotiated" an end to the United Nation's efforts to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
This is a mockery of peace. This is a cesspool of evil. This is an institution that openly flaunts its intention to rule the entire world, demanding its own military, its own courts, and its right to tax everyone as they enslave them. There is no reason for the United Nations to continue to exist.
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