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Ill-Advised UN Jenin Commission – A Major Blow to Truth

THE EXTENSION OF LEGITIMACY TO THE “U.N. JENIN COMMISSION” PLAYS INTO THE HANDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND OTHER SUPPORTERS OF THE PLO, while disappointing and weakening Israel’s friends in Washington.  It bolsters the prestige of the UN, which is an anti-Israel organization, eroding Israel’s sovereignty and Israel’s posture of deterrence.  It advances a major goal of the Arabs – the internationalization of their conflict with Israel.

 

PRESIDENT BUSH HAS DEMONSTRATED – SINCE THE 2000 CAMPAIGN – HIS NON-CHALANCE TOWARD THE U.N. AND HIS DISDAIN FOR U.S. PEACE FORCES.  Vice President Cheney has supported the principle of unilateral military actions against Islamic terrorism and ballistic missiles, should Europe and the UN fail to join the US such a battle.  Secretary Rumsfeld has recently reiterated his opposition to the involvement of American, multilateral or UN forces in the Arab-Israeli and Palestinian-Israeli conflicts.  On the other hand, Secretary Powell, and Foggy Bottom’s bureaucracy, have promoted multi-lateralism headed – preferably- by the UN. 

 

CONGRESS HAS APPROVED, IN RECENT YEARS, A SERIES OF RESOLUTIONS AND LEGISLATION CONDEMNING THE U.N. AND SUSPENDING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO THE ORGANIZATION (22% of total UN budget, 27% of peace-keeping and 25% of UNRAW!).  Public opinion polls confirm that most Americans are indifferent toward the U.N., or consider it an ungrateful and anti-US organization.  UN hostility toward the US was demonstrated by the Durbin (South Africa) Conference, and by Kofi Anan’s relentless efforts to undermine sanctions against Saddam.   Anti-UN. sentiments are particularly entrenched among conservative and republican voters, who constitute Bush’s political power base.  In contrast, it is pro-UN sentiments, which have characterized the Department of State and Secretary of State Powell, a personal friend of Kofi Anan.

 

THE APPROVAL OF THE “U.N. JENIN COMMISSION” WOULD LEGITIMIZE THE U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION, WHICH INCLUDES LIBYA, SYRIA AND SUDAN, THREE TERRORIST STATES, ACCORDING TO THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION’S ANNUAL “GLOBAL PATTERN OF TERRORISM.”  About 30% of the resolutions, issued by the Human Rights Commission during the past 35 years, are related to (and mostly condemning) Israel, while refraining from any criticism of the PLO/PA, Arab countries, North Korea, Cuba or China.  UN structure does not allow Israel, the sole democracy in the Mideast, to be elected as a member of the commission.  In fact, it required a brutal pressure by the U.S. – led by then Ass’t Secretary of State John Bolton – to rescind in 1991 the 1975 UN resolution, which equated Zionism to racism.

 

THE U.N. ALIGNMENT WITH PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS HAS BEEN FUELED BY ISRAEL’S OWN INDECISIVENESS TOWARD THE PLO/PA (enemy? partner? war? security coordination?), by the welcoming of Crown Prince Abdullah’s Plan (return of the 1948 refugees, withdrawal to the 1949 Lines and the re-partitioning of Jerusalem), by the initiative to convene a regional/international conference and by the support for a Palestinian state.

 

SOVEREIGN COUNTRIES DO NOT ALLOW FOREIGN ENTITIES – LET ALONE HOSTILE ENTITIES – TO INTERFERE IN THEIR OWN JUSTICE SYSTEM AND NATIONAL SECURITY.  Belgium, Russia, NATO, England, Egypt, Turkey, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United States would not even consider a UN Commission investigating their wars in Congo, Chechnya, Yugoslavia, Ireland and in face of Islamic and Kurdish terrorism, Baader Meinhoff, Red Brigades, ETA, Taliban (since 2001), Iraq (since 1991), Libya (1986), Panama (1989) and Grenada (1986).

 

ISRAEL’S ACCEPTANCE – AND U.S. SUPPORT – OF THE “U.N. JENIN COMMISSION” WOULD DEAL A MAJOR BLOW TO THE CAUSE OF TRUTH, AND WOULD SEVERELY ADVANCE THE CAUSE OF MORAL EQUIVALENCE.  It would harm Israel’s own sovereignty, would zig-zag US war on terrorism, would energize Palestinian terrorism and its anti-US allies, would enhance the influence of anti-US elements at the UN, and could constitute a “warm-up show” for the internationalization of the Arab-Israeli conflict – the wet dream of the Arabs.

 

WHILE THERE COULD BE A SHORT-TERM PRICE PAID, BY ISRAEL AND THE U.S., FOR DEFEATING THE ILL-ADVISED “U.N. JENIN COMMISSION” (and since when should one expect a Free Lunch?!), THE LONG-TERM COST OF LEGITIMIZING SUCH A COMMISSION WOULD BE MUCH MORE DEVASTATING.

 




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US-sponsored anti-Israel UN Security Council statement – acumen

*The US’ co-sponsorship of an anti-Israel UN Security Council Statement reflects the return of the State Department’s worldview to the center stage of US foreign policy-making. This was the first time, in six years, that the US enabled the UN Security Council to act against Israel.

*This is not merely a worldview, which is highly critical of Israel, as has been the case since 1948, when Foggy Bottom led the charge against the re-establishment of the Jewish State.

This worldview has systematically undermined US interests, by subordinating the unilateral, independent US national security policy (on Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Palestinian issue, etc.) to a multilateral common denominator with the anti-US and anti-Israel UN and international organizations, as well as the vacillating and terrorists-appeasing Europe.

*It has sacrificed Middle East reality on the altar of wishful-thinking, assuming that the establishment of a Palestinian state would fulfill Palestinian aspirations, advance the cause of peace, reduce terrorism and regional instability; thus, enhancing US interests.

*However, the reality of the Middle East and Jordan and the rogue Palestinian track record lend credence to the assumption that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would doom the pro-US Hashemite regime east of the River, yielding traumatic ripple effects, regionally and globally:

^Replace the relatively-moderate Hashemite regime with either a rogue Palestinian regime, a Muslim Brotherhood regime, or other rogue regimes;
^Transform Jordan into a chaotic state, similar to Libya, Syria, Iraq and Yemen, which would be leveraged by Iran’s Ayatollahs to intensify their encirclement of the pro-US Saudi regime;
^Convert Jordan into a major arena of regional and global Islamic terrorism;
^Trigger a domino scenario into the Arabian Peninsula, which could topple all pro-US, oil-producing Arab regimes;
^Imperil the supply of Persian Gulf oil, which would be held hostage by anti-US entities, catapulting the price at the pump;
^Jeopardize major naval routes of global trade between Asia and Europe through the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea and the Suez Canal;
^Intensify epicenters of regional and global terrorism and drug trafficking;
^Generate a robust tailwind to US’ adversaries (Russia and China) and enemies (Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Muslim Brotherhood and ISIS) and a powerful headwind to US economic and national security interests.

*The State Department assumes that Palestinian terrorism – just like Islamic terrorism – is driven by despair, ignoring the fact that Palestinian terrorism has been driven (for the last 100 years) by the vision to erase the “infidel” Jewish entity from “the abode of Islam,” as stated by the charters of Fatah (1959) and the PLO (1964), 8 and 3 years before the Jewish State reunited Jerusalem and reasserted itself in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank).

*Aspiring for a Palestinian state, and viewing Israel’s control of Judea and Samaria as an obstacle to peace, ignores the Arab view of the Palestinians as a role model of intra-Arab subversion, terrorism, corruption and treachery. Moreover, the State Department has held the view that the Palestinian issue is the crux of the Arab-Israeli conflict and a central to Arab interests, which has been refuted by the Abraham Accords. The latter ignored the State Department, sidestepped the Palestinian issue and therefore came to fruition.

*The State Department overlooks the centrality of the Palestinian Authority’s hate education, which has become the most effective production-line of terrorists, and the most authentic reflection of the Palestinian Authority’s worldview and vision.

*The State Department has also taken lightly the Palestinian Authority’s mosque incitement, public glorification of terrorists and monthly allowances to families of terrorists, which have documented its rogue and terroristic nature (walk), notwithstanding its peaceful diplomatic rhetoric (talk).

*The State Department’s eagerness to welcome the Palestinian issue in a “red carpet” manner – contrary to the “shabby doormat” extended to Palestinians by Arabs – and its determination to promote the establishment of a Palestinian state, along with its embrace of Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Muslim Brotherhood, have been interpreted by rogue regimes and organizations as weakness.

Experience suggests that weakness invites the wolves, including wolves which aim to bring “The Great Satan” to submission throughout the world as well as the US mainland.

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