The UN Has Been Screwing Israel For Decades

By
Omri Ceren
– December 3, 2006Posted in: United Nations

We were playing around with the Google Directory and came across two TIME articles from the history of United Nations/Israeli relations. The first is from December 15, 1975, and details the UN legitimization of the PLO. It’s entitled “Israel Loses a Round”, and it’s about how the United Nations condemned Israel for going after terrorists in Lebanon:

“This is anti-Israel festival week,” groaned one foreign ministry official in Jerusalem. To a large extent, he was right. At the United Nations last week, Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization won a stunning diplomatic victory that came as a sharp defeat for the increasingly isolated and friendless Israelis. In effect, the Security Council virtually recognized the P.L.O. as the government in exile of a potential state equal in international standing to Israel… the Security Council voted 9 to 3 (with three abstentions) to invite representatives of the P.L.O. to participate in a formal council debate on “Israeli aggression” against Lebanon, with the same rights that are granted member nations of the United Nations.

The second article is from June 29, 1981, and is entitled “A Harsh Rebuke for Israel”. It’s about how the entire planet – including the United States – condemned Israel for destroying Iraq’s nuclear reactor:

When the time came, she raised her hand so tentatively that for a moment there was some doubt in the chamber as to how she was going to vote. But Jeane Kirkpatrick, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, did indeed vote yes last week, thereby joining in one of the harshest United Nations rebukes of Israel that the U.S. had ever supported.

So spare us the refrain about how “Israel is opposed by the entire world,” as if that somehow proves that there’s logic and fairness behind those condemnations. Israel has been getting criticized for decades for taking actions that turned out – in almost every case – to have been justified. People who are unable to defend why decades of UN resolutions have turned out to be wrong should not use contemporary resolutions as evidence for anything other than systemic UN bias.

Previously: Iran Not Sure What Everyone’s So Pissed Off About – Nuking Israel is Long Established Policy, This is How It Happens – International Diplomats About To Screw Israel on Lebanon, Hey UN, Shove It (Palestinian Self-Determination Edition)

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