WarSclerotic

The violence began on October 1, when a Hamas cell shot dead a Jewish couple in front of their children. There have since been dozens of attacks, and murders most involving Muslim terrorists stabbing Jewish civilians. The UN response? Ban Ki-moon questions whether Israel uses too much force when trying to stop terror attacks. No reported comment on Palestinian terrorism.

“When an institution reaches the degree of corruption, brazen cynicism and dishonor demonstrated by the U.N. in its shameful history, to discuss it at length is to imply that its members and supporters may possibly be making an innocent error about its nature—which is no longer possible. There is no margin for error about a monstrosity that was created for the alleged purpose of preventing wars by uniting the world against any aggressor, but proceeded to unite it against any victim of aggression.”  Ayn Rand.

The UN was established in the wake of the Holocaust to insure that it would never happen again. The monstrous irony is that the UN is working hard to make sure that it happens to the Jews again.

The UN is corrupt organization driven by the largest body in the world — the Organization of Islamic Cooperation. Why must we, the United States, fund these barbarians to the tune of close to 25% of their annual budget?

The OIC is nothing less than a “would-be, universal caliphate.” It might look different from the caliphates of the Ottomans, Fatimids, and Abbasids. It might resemble, instead, a thoroughly modern trans-national bureaucracy. But, already, the OIC exercises significant power through the United Nations, and through the European Union, which has been eager to accommodate the OIC while simultaneously endowing the U.N. with increasing authority for global governance.  Bat Yeor

A former president of the U.N. General Assembly “sold himself and the global institution he led” by pocketing more than $1 million in bribes to finance a luxury spending spree, according to a federal prosecutor.

The GOP candidate should campaign on leaving the UN. I guarantee it would garner big votes.

UN Chief Wants Review of Israeli Use of Force, Silent on Terror
Ban Ki-moon questions whether Israel uses too much force when trying to stop terror attacks. No reported comment on Palestinian terrorism.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged Israel on Tuesday to carry out a “serious review” on whether its security forces are resorting to “excessive force” in clashes with Palestinians, AFP reports.

Ban finds “the apparent excessive use of force by Israeli security forces” to be “troubling,” his spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters as violence continued in Jerusalem and Bethlehem.

This “demands serious review as it only serves to exacerbates the situation leading to a vicious cycle of needless bloodshed,” he said.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Tuesday Israel would use “all means” available to end Palestinian violence and that new security measures were planned.

The UN chief was due to sit down with Security Council envoys for a luncheon meeting on Tuesday to discuss mounting Israeli-Palestinian violence.

A ministerial-level meeting of the Security Council on the crisis in the Middle East is scheduled for October 22.

After initially breaking out with attacks and violent protests across Israel, unrest has spread to Gaza, with clashes along the border in recent days leaving nine Palestinians dead from Israeli fire.

The violence began on October 1, when an alleged Hamas cell shot dead a Jewish couple in front of their children. There have since been dozens of attacks, most involving terrorists stabbing Jewish civilians.

A number of Arabs have also been killed, nearly all after they had carried out an attack or during riots.

Ban has not criticized Palestinian incitement and calls to violence.

His comments come on the same day as a series of bloody attacks by Arab terrorists against Israeli civilians, in which three Israelis were killed and scores more wounded. The UN Secretary General did not, however, make any reference to those attacks in his statement.