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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (96230)	1/21/2005 7:11:10 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

< I don't really think it's up to Israel to revamp an organization that has consistently discriminated against it and treated it as a pariah.> Nadine, perhaps, but if Israel is badly treated, it's in their interests to try to persuade people to make that change. It's somewhat equivalent to stopping Adolf and his supporters in the 1930s. Jews would have been very pleased to have that outcome. It would have been worth some effort. It's ironic that the UN legitimized the formation of Israel and now you say that the creator is the problem. It's sort of like an Oedipus complex. I'm not saying you are wrong, just that it's ironic. <explain to us how your 'new' UN wouldn't immediately turn back into the 'old' UN, with all its corruption and feather-bedding. > The same way that the USA isn't full of corruption and feather-bedding, nor are other civilized governments. It's a matter of doing things right and there are plenty of examples of political institutions being run reasonably okay. Israel presumably isn't full of corruption and feather-bedding. Perhaps similar institutional rules could be adopted in the UN. Israel could build those into a proposed constitution. Mqurice