When irrelevance gathers to be ignored and banana republics try to form a human rights committee with a straight face
At the Bogota Summit, the world’s weakest militaries threatened the world’s most battle-tested, proving that truth is funnier than fiction.
Formed just a few months ago, the Hague Group was launched by frustrated governments, led by South Africa and Colombia, once they realized that even the world’s most anti-Israel institutions couldn’t keep Israel from doing what it does best: surviving. So a new coalition was born, one in which countries with little strategic leverage could at least coordinate a shared sense of righteous indignation.
This week, 32 nations (well, 31 nations plus one tiny smudge on the map) gathered in Bogota, Colombia, under the self-important banner of the “Hague Group.” On paper, they’re a consortium of concerned countries convening over concern for Gaza. In reality, it’s a who’s who of the Third World’s most irrelevant countries and micro nations, united by their hate of Israel and their shared cluelessness over how to channel it.
To be honest, this wasn’t a summit so much as a support group for virtue-signaling banana republics. We got recycled denunciations of Israel from regimes whose own track records on human rights make Gaza look like Geneva. Or vice versa.
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