Thursday, 13 June 2024

“The United Nations does more harm than good” | Alan Dershowitz

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“The United Nations does more harm than good”  says Harvard Law professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz.

Sad, but true.

Founded immediately post-war, in 1945, to keep peace amongst nations, the UN has, since the 1960s — about the time my father was sent to the UN New York, as the representative for Australia — been taken over by anti-western, anti-democratic, pro-Islamist forces. The Organisation for the Islamic Conference is the largest single block in the United Nations. 

The nations of the Global South, largely anti-western and anti-democratic, and including most of the OIC, are a huge chunk of the General Assembly. The only bulwark against complete domination by those forces is the Security Council, but that’s under sustained attack for its elitism and dominance by the United States, so there’s no long term guarantee there. 

Think of UN “Peacekeeping” forces. Sent to trouble spots unarmed, and with no mandate to engage with any trouble makers. Their “peacekeeping” at the Rwandan massacres only made the massacres worse. UN troops stood by as machete-wielding tribes slaughtered each other.

Israel has more UN resolutions targeting it than all the rest of the nations combined. In what world, and whatever your views on Israel, can that be right?