WarSclerotic

Ban Ki-moon’s Israel-condemnation addiction, Israel Hayom, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, September 1, 2014

(Unfortunately but not unexpectedly, Ban Ki-moon’s ailment is endemic in the “international community.” Perhaps it is because Israel tries to be and is excessively conciliatory. The Islamic State and other Islamic jihad entities are conciliatory only toward those who support and otherwise encourage them. — DM)

The Middle East is on fire, its flames threatening the continuity of civilization itself. Around the world people looked aghast at the revolting beheading of American journalist James Foley by terrorists of the Islamic State (ISIS). It was followed by the public execution of 18 Palestinians, including two women, by Hamas on charges of collaboration. Executed, without trial, in cold blood.

These acts of barbarism are only the latest examples of the monstrous enemy, radical Islam.

In Iraq and Syria, ISIS is now beheading children and crucifying youths in their genocidal war against Christians, Yazidis, and whomever else is standing in the way of their caliphate.

In Iran, the gay-hating, women-stoning, free-speech-suppressing mullahs continue to fund murderous attacks against Americans and Jews worldwide, threatening Israel with nuclear annihilation.

And in Gaza, bloodthirsty Hamas terrorists fire rockets at Israelis from homes, schools, and mosques while sacrificing Palestinian babies as human shields, and using Palestinian children as slave labor to build terror tunnels in its never-ending genocidal war against the Jews.

But through all this, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon continues his addiction to condemnations of Israel, castigating the Middle East’s only democracy as it acts in self-defense against the blood-thirsty Hamas death-cult.

His repeated statements of moral equivalency between Hamas and Israel are an affront to decency. A recent bipartisan letter from U.S. senators to Ban Ki-moon scolded his comparison of the “deliberate terrorist attack on civilians” by Hamas to the “measured response of a nation-state trying to defend its citizens.”

As Israel has waged a fierce war against Hamas to stop the thousands of murderous rockets raining down on its cities, Ban has called Israel’s actions “unjustifiable,” “a moral outrage,” “a criminal act,” “reprehensible,” and “a gross violation of international law.”

Ban called on Israel to demolish its security fence along Judea and Samaria even though he has made no such similar call of his native South Korea to destroy the fence on the 38th parallel that protects his homeland from Pyongyang.

Ban has held Israel accountable for the deaths of Palestinian civilians even when it is clear that Hamas routinely fires rockets from schools, hospitals, mosques, and private homes.

The Washington Post reported on July 31 that the United Nations has found troves of rockets hidden in three of its (Hamas’) schools since the conflict began.

The Post also reported in July that, “during one short-lived lull in rocket fire,” William Booth, the Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief, saw a “group of men” at a mosque in northern Gaza. They said they had returned to clean up glass from shattered windows. “But they could be seen moving small rockets into the mosque.” He also reported that Shifa Hospital in Gaza City had “become a de facto headquarters for Hamas leaders, who can be seen in the hallways and offices.”

A year ago Ban was not nearly as harsh in condemning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for waging a chemical attack against his own people, gassing upwards of 1700. Instead, he appealed for unity among world powers and sought more time for the inspectors to complete their work.

Ban’s response to North Korea’s three nuclear tests and threats of a pre-emptive nuclear strike against the United State in March of 2013 was similarly tepid, saying merely it was “a challenge for the international community.” While a rogue nation brazenly tests nuclear missiles and intentionally starves its population in a self-inflicted famine, Ban refers to these actions as nothing more than “a serious humanitarian crisis.”

Harsh and condemnatory language is reserved, it seems, solely for Israel.

Ban Ki-moon should focus on investigating real genocides in the Middle East and stop persecuting Israel, the region’s only democracy. The citizens of the world deserve a U.N. chief who can, at the very least, distinguish between right and wrong.

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