From Patrick Goodenough’s article at cnsnews.com:
After a minute of silence in honor of Fidel Castro, United Nations member-states on Tuesday turned to the regular General Assembly agenda item entitled “the question of Palestine,” in preparation for votes on several resolutions condemning Israel.
“I’m deeply saddened by the passing of Fidel Castro,” began the president of the General Assembly, Peter Thomson of Fiji. He described the Cuban dictator as “one of the iconic leaders of the 20th century, with a great love for his homeland and the Cuban people, he dedicated his life to their welfare and development.”
“A tireless advocate for equity in the international arena, he was an inspirational figure for developing countries in particular,” Thomson added.
Representatives then stood in silence for a minute.
On a day when the U.N. marks its annual “International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,” a number of delegates sported Palestinian flags, scarves and keffiyehs – including Thomson himself, for some of the time.
To summarize: The United Nations had a minute of silence for fidel castro, a mass murdering despot who ran Cuba as a freedomless hellhole so relentlessly that millions of its people risked death – often died – in desperate attempts to flee to the USA…
…on its day of solidarity with people whose leaders are committed, in writing, to obliterating Israel, a UN member-state, and killing every Jew there and elsewhere – in other words, genocide.
I often refer to the UN as standing for Useless and Neutered. Any doubt about why?
