Exercise in Futility - Israel Tries to Get UN to Expel Iran
Now that Iran has violated the letter of the United Nations Charter by calling for the destruction of a member state (the charter calls on "all members... to refrain from the threat or use of force" against member states) - to say nothing of how the vicious hatred and vulgar anti-Semitism that the Islamic Republic instigates violates the spirit of peace and understanding - Israel is trying to convince the UN to take notice:
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman began trying to build a coalition Thursday in favor of expelling Iran from the UN, as governments around the globe condemned Iran for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments that Israel should be "wiped off the map."
One might think that, given a patent violation of everything the United Nations claims to stand for, such a coalition would be relatively easy to build. One would be unfamiliar with the UN's mandate to be as unabashedly and transparently anti-Israel as possible:
UN mathematics indicate that no such coalition could possibly prevail, but Israel is understood to be pursuing the effort nonetheless - both out of a sense of obligation and in the faint hope that the almost impossible might somehow happen.
Everyone is issuing all the right condemnations. No one is willing to do anything about it.
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Dan Gillerman began trying to build a coalition Thursday in favor of expelling Iran from the UN, as governments around the globe condemned Iran for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments that Israel should be "wiped off the map."
One might think that, given a patent violation of everything the United Nations claims to stand for, such a coalition would be relatively easy to build. One would be unfamiliar with the UN's mandate to be as unabashedly and transparently anti-Israel as possible:
UN mathematics indicate that no such coalition could possibly prevail, but Israel is understood to be pursuing the effort nonetheless - both out of a sense of obligation and in the faint hope that the almost impossible might somehow happen.
Everyone is issuing all the right condemnations. No one is willing to do anything about it.
