Israel Matzav

The UN's pathological need to undermine Israel

David Harsanyi describes what is likely to happen at the United Nations this week as part of a pathological need to undermine Israel.

What we do know is that any vote will further undercut American influence in the Middle East, incite violence across the region and fail to bring the Palestinian people one inch closer to their desired goal of statehood. After all, the UN vote can’t change reality. No Israeli government will stop using checkpoints until Palestinians stop targeting civilians. No one will hand East Jerusalem to the PLO. There can be no Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders because today such borders are untenable and a threat to the existence of Israel.

It simply doesn’t matter what Liechtenstein or Sierra Leone have to say on the matter.

But it’s even worse. Sure, the United Nations has historically vacillated between deep irrelevance and monumental ineffectiveness. But with all its prevaricating and impotence on genuine threats to human rights across the world, next week it will be actively precipitating violence and endorsing ethnic cleansing.

It is understood that one of the preconditions for the existence of a Palestinian state is the judenrein West Bank. It will be purified of Jews, regardless of their political inclinations, Zionist or not, because effectively speaking no Jew will be able to live in the West Bank or East Jerusalem safely. Palestine Liberation Organization’s ambassador to the United States, Maen Rashid Areikat, has admitted as much.

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What will happen if the United States is forced to veto this unilaterally and fantastical Palestinian nation, or ignore its United Nation’s granted “independence”? One can imagine how much anger our enemies will whip up (it doesn’t take much, mind you). In an increasingly unstable Muslim world, leaders can use this pointless fiasco as an outlet to displace popular rage and redirect attention from their own shortcoming and point it towards Israel.

One need look no further than the fading Arab Spring to understand the inherent danger in this. Earlier this month, an Egyptian mob overpowered 90 police officers and stormed the Israeli embassy. The ambassador to Cairo and 70 other Israelis were forced to evacuate on a military plane in the middle of the night to save their lives.

Harsanyi is a little off on this. It's not that the UN has a pathological need to undermine Israel. It's that Israel hatred is built in to the very structure of the one country, one vote UN. The OIC is always going to oppose Israel, and its joining up with the non-aligned countries ensures that there will always be an anti-Israel majority. The people who are pathologically anti-Israel are the European countries, who will insist on voting for 'Palestine' and the Obama administration, which would like to join them but cannot without destroying the President's reelection prospects.

The problem with the UN isn't pathology so much as structural, and it's why the organization must be thrown to the dustbins of history.

Labels: Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Unilateral declaration of independence (UDI), United Nations

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 5:49 PM