Another United Nations Failure
That august body whose presence and preoccupation it is to advance peace and security in the world doesn't appear to be all that preoccupied with recognizing when it has failed to do just that. On the other hand, it might not be surprising, given the character and construction of the participating world bodies purporting to represent the best interest of the globe with respect to peace.The body politic is irremediably factionalized. How it might be otherwise is a real conundrum, given human frailties and emotions leading nations to form self-interested cliques. And given human nature which always seeks to marginalize and victimize entities which are different than their own. Gregarious people, like gregarious body politics tend to huddle in the comfort of their own, eschewing the company of others.
Despite which, one might reasonably anticipate that basic human decency would mitigate against blatant fear-mongering, hate-mongering, and outright threats from one member-nation against another. Whoever might issue very real promises of violence and existential threats against another nation, it might be assumed that their agenda would be rejected outright, even among their supporters.
That, obviously, is not the case. The world appears to have assembled itself into rigid collectives; the countries of the developed world, for the most part, arrayed against the interests of those of the developing nations of the world, although there are overlaps. When a hatefully delusional totalitarian emissary of militant Islam can stand before the general assembly of the world body and decry and threaten the existence of a nation state, as Iran did Israel, it resulted in general acclaim.
That approval, given in the guise of a general applause after the incendiary statements of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a re-statement of his oft-expressed contempt of the "Zionist entity", and his personal determination to wipe the country from the geography's map, spoke volumes about the constant persecution within the United Nations and its various bodies, of the State of Israel.
An outright condemnation of Sudan, for its genocidal war on Darfurians, in the face of the UN's helpless protests, would never surface in the world body, because it is the general consensus within the United Nations that one must never name names, cause embarrassment to member nations, but rather work quietly behind the scenes. Israel, however, is treated uniquely differently, held up for constant criticism and contempt.
Iran, another shameful Holocaust-denying country whose Ayatollahs excite deadly retribution against non-Muslims for perceived insults to the Prophet Muhammad, encourages Muslims in Iran to mock the memory of the Holocaust. Where public events mock the memories of the victims of the most horrendous mass slaughter of innocents to have taken place in modern memory. Where the theocratic government encourages calls for suicide bombings to assist in the "death of Israel".
There has been no murmur of condemnation, much less a statement of disavowal by the United Nations' Security Council. In a U.S. appeal to Arab leaders, themselves fearful of the advance of Iran's nuclear agenda, and of Iran's up-front aspirations to assuming premiership of the Islamic hierarchy, the response was as usual. Arab leaders steadfastly refuse to recognize and accept Israel's right to its geographic location in the Middle East.
Proffering the fiction that they will be only too happy to incline toward inclusion just as soon as Israel removes its 300,000 settlers in the West Bank. As though that alone stands between acceptance or rejection. The ancient enmities and angers and hatreds are simply too fused into the Arab tribal, clan mentality. And in this very instance the enemy of their enemy is most certainly not their friend.
Labels: Middle East, United Nations
posted by Pieface @ Sunday, September 28, 2008
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