The UN’s Destructive, and Self-Destructive, Obsession with Israel
An organization founded to prevent war instead countenances and abets terror against the Jewish state.
July 6, 2017
The UN’s Destructive, and Self-Destructive, Obsession with Israel
An organization founded to prevent war instead countenances and abets terror against the Jewish state.
On Tuesday, the United Nations Social, Educational, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) passed a resolution condemning Israel, despite UNESCO’s being an ostensibly apolitical body. This resolution, hardly the first of its kind, typifies the UN’s perverse fixation on Israel, which, as Joshua Muravchik chronicles in a brief history, has existed nearly since the world body’s inception and interferes with its ability to do much else. The story begins with the UN’s approval of a plan to partition Palestine and the Arab world’s response: waging precisely the sort of aggressive war the body was formed to prevent:
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