Seven times the UN tried to destroy Israel
The UN marks its 80th anniversary, as it preps enough “strongly worded statements” to tide them over along their brief wobble to irrelevance.
The UN, an entity that’s mastered the art of expressing “deep alarm” or “grave concern,” also perfected the annual ritual of lopsided roll calls. Yet the automatic majority never erased Israel; it didn’t even smudge it. Still, it hasn’t stopped trying to paper-cut it into submission through its three-step program of condemn first, condemn often, condemn again. Year after year, the same United Nations General Assembly convenes, in the hopes that maybe this time enough non-binding votes by the band of banned, bland, and bandits might brand a new future, bend reality, and bind Israel to it. The snowballing push to recognize Palestine at the UN, spearheaded by France and Britain, is the latest example.
Here are seven UN votes in which bias met staying power.
In 1948, the UN passed a postwar memo by 35–15–8, declaring that Arab refugees who want to live at peace should be allowed to return. The UN also awarded itself full and indefinite babysitting duties over Jerusalem and other holy sites.
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