Michael Goodwin is one of the best political/social commentators in our country.
His latest must-read piece, for the New York Post, concerns the United Nations’ overt hatred of Israel. Here is how it begins:
In the best of years, General Assembly gatherings at the United Nations are good only for New York restaurants, hotels, prostitutes and comedians with an eye for absurdity.
This year’s edition of the circus promises to be especially rich in hypocrisy, with murderous autocrats and petty potentates lining up to take even more than the usual number of shots at Israel.
With the pooh-bahs jubilant that Israel is growing more isolated diplomatically, count on the air in Turtle Bay to reek with the stench of antisemitism even before the 80th session officially opens on Sept. 9.
Hatred for the lone Jewish nation will be so thick, it will feel like a rally for New York’s leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who won’t quit his attachment to BDS and the chant of “globalize the intifada.”
Mr. Goodwin goes on to detail chapter and verse of why he feels this way. And, as usual, his points are dead-on target.
Just a couple more examples:
Keeping faith with hate, a dominant theme this year will be “the starvation narrative” in Gaza, which holds that Israel is committing genocide against the Arab civilian population.
Never mind that the vast majority of aid trucks Israel allows into the enclave are stolen by Hamas, which takes most of the food for itself and sells the rest on the black market.
As I recently noted, a UN report concluded “that between May 19 and Aug. 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza.”
But only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza, with the rest “intercepted and looted along their delivery routes.”
True to its cowardly nature, the UN report did not distinguish between the parties responsible for the thefts, noting only that the aid was stolen by “either armed actors or hungry people.”
Want more? You have the link (here it is again). I urge you to use it, and read every word.
Then wonder, along with me, why we stay in this wretched excuse for what at one time was a useful, relevant international organization.
