Posted by
Patrick Henry on Friday, January 16, 2009 6:20:18 AM
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has launched yet another tirade at
the state of Israel because the Israeli Defense Force shelled a U.N. compound in Gaza.
U.N. representative John Ging, on the ground in Gaza, calls Israeli claims that soldiers
were fired on from the compund "ridiculous" and "typical misinformation." The
Israelis are investigating.
But if this incident plays out like comparable ones during the offensive, two things
will become apparent. One, the United Nations, like much of the rest of the world,
is grossly biased against Israel. And two, various arms of the world body actively
support terrorists wherever they find them.
There was a great outcry from the U.N. over shells that struck near one of their
"schools" in Gaza. Once again, the Israelis claimed to be taking mortar fire from
the vicinity, while the U.N. denied it. Then it leaked out that Hamas militants
and members of Islamic Jihad, both organizations known to have launched attacks
against Israel, were on the U.N. payroll at the school. Does the U.N. wish the world
to believe that extremists working at the school are incapable of mounting armed
resistance against the Israelis? How gullible do they think people are?
Moon's language betrays the U.N. bias. He "wishes," quietly, that Hamas would
stop raining rockets on Israel. But he "demands," loudly and officiously that Israel
cease all attacks against Gaza and return within its own borders. The illogic seems
to be that since Israel is winning, the whole thing must be their fault. This is just the
latest in a chain of U.N. condemnations of and innuendoes against the Jewish state.
Who can blame Israel for simply ignoring the world body for the public joke that
it is?
Now, U.S. tax dollars are paid into the United Nations for "humanitarian efforts"
including the Gaza compound in question, and the terrorist-employing school. If
these missions are being used to advance the terrorist mission of Hamas, then while
the U.S. is supporting Israel diplomatically and financially, U.S. money is also being
diverted to support terror in Gaza, and who knows where else?
This same U.N. is the group that illegally diverted vast funding to North Korea that
may have been used to help develop its arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, and
continues to resist objective investigation of its activities and the rooting out of
corruption. Time after time, the United Nations has proven impotent, clumsy and
corrupt, and now is directly funneling support to at least one terror organization.
When is enough enough?
Undaunted by it all, President-Elect Barack Obama has pledged to commit billions
to the tainted international body to help fight poverty, with almost no hope that the
money will actually reach the world's poor, no ability to audit the use of the funds
and, on performance, the possibility that aid will be rendered to those actively
working against the interests and policies of the United States. Yet another step
toward world government? It's time to stop the nonsense and derail the gravy
train. No accountability, no transparency, no more money. Will we never learn?