Melanie Phillips, a veteran British journalist and staunch supporter of Israel, has written many very worthwhile commentaries on the Middle East.
Her latest is particularly salient. Here is how it begins:
In his barnstorming speech this week at the United Nations General Assembly, in which he lobbed one uncomfortable home truth after another at member states, U.S. President Donald Trump told the world body itself that it was useless. Instead of stopping wars and saving lives, he said, it produced only empty words.
The problem with the United Nations is rather more acute than that. Supposedly the guardian of peace and justice in the world, it has become instead an avatar of evil.
Institutionally programmed to single out the State of Israel for systematic defamation, delegitimization and destruction, it has been captured by an agenda to destroy Israel because it represents the world. Most of the world is run by liberal universalists, Marxist dictatorships or Muslim regimes, which in various combinations hate Israel, the Jews and the West.
So it wasn’t surprising that—as a result of the global strategy of terrorism, war and defamation launched by the Hamas-led atrocities on Oct. 7, 2023, as an all-out push to destroy Israel—157 countries voted at the United Nations to recognize Palestine.
As Trump said, this rewarded Hamas for Oct. 7 “even while they refuse to release the hostages or accept a ceasefire.”
The unilateral Palestine recognition stunt was led by France and Britain, who thus ripped up the 1993 Oslo Accords, which required a negotiated settlement to the Israel-Palestinian issue.
Recognition, which, as the British government concedes, does not create a state of Palestine, is in effect a declaration of war against Israel by creating a fake diplomatic infrastructure to pressure the Jewish state, through both national and international bodies, to cut its own throat.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and the French President Emmanuel Macron have done this partly to appease the ever-more powerful Muslim blocs in Britain and France, and partly to save their own skins from their political enemies.
It was also in part because they are genuine believers in the liberal universalist fantasy of a “two-state solution” to this Arab war of extermination against Israel, a genocidal war that they catastrophically mischaracterize as a dispute between two parties with a well-founded claim to the same area of land.
Exactly right.
Want more? You have the link (here it is again). Do yourself a favor and read every word.
Then think about what the United Nations has become, the direction it continues to head toward….and whether we should stay in/continue to legitimize it in its current form.
