Surely the nations are like a drop in a bucket; they are regarded as dust on the scales; he weighs the islands as though they were fine dust. Isaiah 40 v15

The United Nations

Although the United Nations does not claim to be a Christian organization, many "Christians" who seek to demonize Israel will cite the U.N. in their case.  This picture is of the Hill of Evil Counsel in Jerusalem - the Israel headquarters of the United Nations!

The Mandate of the United Nations

Most people suppose that the U.N. is the world arbiter on all matters of right and wrong between nations; it certainly claims to be.   But in whose name and on whose authority does the United Nations act and make its pronouncements? It was not appointed by God, but by governments - in the human model of democracy and voting in proportion to representation. As such it is a human or humanistic organisation, placing human decision making as its highest criterion. Therefore, the Christian should not accept without question, the wisdom of such a world system, whether it be the U.N. or some other.    

Outside the U.N. building in New York there is a wall bearing the inscription,  "They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation, nor will they learn war anymore. Isaiah "    But this is only the second part of the scripture verse,  (Isaiah 2 v4)

"He will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples.  They will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.  Nation will not take up sword against nation,  nor will they train for war anymore."

This quotation out of context demonstrates the presumption of the nations, united in belief that they can bring in the peace of the Messianic Age, while not acknowledging God, whose word they are using.  

David Pawson described a visit to the chapel in the U.N. building, which has room for prayer housing a black cast iron block, into which one is supposed to stare whilst praying to one's chosen deity (or none).

The U.N. campaign against Israel

 

1. Before 1990, Security Council passed 175 resolutions, 97 were directed against Israel (It is 55% of all resolutions).   

2. Before 1990, UN General Assembly voted on  690 resolutions, 429 were directed against Israel (It is 62% of all resolutions).

3. The UN was silent when Jordanians destroyed 58 Synagogues in Jerusalem .

4. The UN was silent while the Jordanians systematically desecrated the   ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount of Olives.

5. The UN was silent while the Jordanians enforced an apartheid-like policy of preventing Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and the Western Wall.     

6. The UN was silent while for 18 months Israel was terrorised by indiscriminate suicide bombing campaign unleashed by PA leadership.

7. There are 54 Muslims countries in the UN. As well as many more are others Arab oil dependant states.

8. Israel is the ONLY MEMBER OF THE UN THAT IS NOT PERMITTED MEMBERSHIP ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL.

9. Israel is the only country excluded from the U.N.'s regional group system. Since Israel does not belong to any group, it is the only country of 190 member states that is not eligible to serve on the numerous U.N. commissions. 

10. In recent years, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights has annually passed five resolutions condemning Israel. This year, they passed seven. By contrast, each of the following countries/regions has been the subject of only one resolution: Afghanistan, Burundi, Congo, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Myanmar, Russia/Chechnya, Sierra Leone, Southeast Europe and Sudan.

11. Nov. 29 is the United Nations Day of International Solidarity with the Palestinian People. No other group or nation has a U.N. Day of Solidarity. 

12. Israel is the only state to which a special investigator with "an open-ended mandate to inspect its human rights record" is assigned by the U.N. 

13. It is the only state targeted by two special committees and special units of the U.N. Secretariat ostensibly devoted to the Palestinians but in reality dedicated to Israel-bashing worldwide, costing millions of dollars a year.

14. UNIFIL, the U.N. force stationed on the Israel-Lebanon border, hid a videotape of Israeli soldiers being abducted by Hezbollah in October 2000. After finally admitting to having the tape, the U.N. would only show an edited version (in which Hezbollah faces were hidden) to the Israeli government.

Thanks to Steven Shamrak for the above "highlights"

September 2009 - UN Report on the 2008-9 Israel-Gaza conflict turns out to be as biassed as expected

Partiality

Each year the UN hosts a formal event and commiserates with the "Palestinians" over their misfortune from the UN's passage of resolution 181!   At its 27th "International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People" meeting in 2005, a map of the Middle East was presented at the event attended by Kofi Annan and the presidents of the UN Security Council and General Assembly, but the state of Israel was nowhere to be seen on the map!

U.N. Human Rights Council

The U.N. Human Rights Council is another forum used by regimes with blood on their hands, to pillory Israel for alleged infringements. Just check the post holders for some bizarre choices. See also Goldstone Report.

U.N. Watch has posted a 3-minute video on YouTube that reveals truly offensive statements that are welcomed by the UN Human Rights Council while the statement criticising the Council was rejected as "inadmissible". The_Daily_Invective_at_the_UN_Human_Rights_Council

Resolution 242

The Anti-Israel campaigners regularly demand that Israel complies with Resolution 242, without acknowledging what that resolution actually says. (See also Land )

The UN Resolution 242 of 22nd November 1967, is regularly misquoted as pressing Israel to give up "all territories".    Resolution 242 actually calls for . . . .

Resolution 242 says every state should have defensible boundaries, free from threats.   Barak offered that but Arafat responded with the "Intifada".

Even so, this UN Resolution is still only man's opinion, as discussed above.  We need to remember that the U.N. votes according to its makeup of nations.   There are many small nations who owe allegiance to Islam or the Arab nations, and many more know they must protect their oil based economy by keeping in favour with the Arab nations.  Is it any wonder that Israel is regularly pilloried, with only USA and Micronesia standing for her?  

More than one General Secretary of the U.N. has reminded Israel, "You owe us."   But is this true? Is the case that the UN owes its existence to the God of Israel, who brought it into being in order to vote into existence the state of Israel in the brief window of time when the nations were feeling guilty enough for the Holocaust? Even then the voting is illuminating!

Vote taken on November 29th 1947 by the United Nations

For the establishment of a Jewish state . . 33	Against . . . . . .13	Abstained . . . . . 10
Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Belarus, Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatamala, Haiti, Holland, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Poland, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Philippines, Peru, Russia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, Uraguay, U.S. and Venezuela.	Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and Yemen	Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Great Britain, Honduras, Mexico and Yugoslavia

See Land for comment on U.N. pronouncements about ownership of the land.

March 2008 - American Jewish professor who compared Israel to Nazis Appointed to UN Human Rights Council

Known for likening Israel to the Nazis, American Jewish law professor Richard A. Falk was appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council  to six-year term as the body's primary investigator of Israeli human rights abuses in the "occupied territories."

A former professor of international law at Princeton University, Falk will take over in June from South African professor and apartheid expert John Dugard, who compared Israeli policies to apartheid and colonialism." In a recent article, [Falk] stated that he did not think it to be 'an irresponsible overstatement to associate the treatment of Palestinians with the criminalized Nazi record of collective atrocity,'" Levanon said. "He has taken part in a UN fact-finding mission which determined that suicide bombings were a valid method of 'struggle.'" "He has disturbingly charged Israel with 'genocidal tendencies,' and accused it of trying to achieve security through 'state terrorism,'" Levanon added. "Someone who has publicly and repeatedly stated such views cannot possibly be considered independent, impartial or objective," reported The Jerusalem Post. Falk has also written that a Palestinian "holocaust" is in the works.

Lawfare

Many of the above observations could also be made about International Court Of Justice in the Hague. Many anti-Israel campaigners attempt to make cases against Israel under dubious Human Rights charges. But who appointed the ICJ judiciary to such an exalted position?

See "Londonistan" by Melanie Philips for an analysis of how Britain's judiciary has undermined the parliamentary democracy to pursue a liberal, human rights led agenda.

See also Israel against Israel for examples of the practice of Lawfare.

UNRWA

The UNRWA was set up to administer aid to the "Palestinians" during a difficult time and has never been allowed to wind up its work. It continues to channel international aid into Gaza without ensuring the money is properly spent. During the 2009 conflict it was discovered that UNRWA has numerous Hamas operatives on its staff.

In case there was any doubt about UNRWA policy

The director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency's New York Representative Office, Andrew Whitley, told a conference in Washington that Palestinians should accept that they will never return to Israel and, rather than continue to dream of this, they should work to improve their current circumstances. Whitley concluded these startling remarks by suggesting that UNRWA should resettle its clients rather than continue to perpetuate their refugee status.

After complaints from the Palestinian Authority, the Jordanian government, and many others, Whitley abjectly apologized for his remarks in a letter to the UNRWA spokesman:

I am writing following my realisation – from media reports, statements and letters from individuals, organisations and governments – that part of the remarks I delivered at a conference in Washington hosted by the National Council on US – Arab Relations, on 22 October, 2010, were inappropriate and wrong. Those remarks did not represent UNRWA's views.I express my sincere regrets and apologies over any harm that my words may have done to the cause of the Palestine refugees and for any offence I may have caused. I have spent much of my long career workinxxg for the Palestinian people, and defending their rights, in different professional capacities. It is definitely not my belief that the refugees should give up on their basic rights, including the right of return.I wish to put this letter on the public record out of concern that what I said in Washington could be interpreted in ways that negatively affect the reputation and work of UNRWA, an organisation I have been proud to serve since July 2002. The Agency is at liberty to use my statement in whatever ways it sees fit. There is no need for a reply.Yours sincerely,

Andrew Whitley

From a posting by by Daniel Pipes - October 23, 2010

http://www.danielpipes.org/blog/2010/10/unrwa-official-calls-on-palestinians-to-accept-reality

 

Building Human Shields for hamas?

Israel's Defense Ministry is pleading with UNRWA not to build a new school for Palestinian children next to a Hamas military installation in southern Gaza.

> In the past, Hamas has cynically placed its bomb laboratories next to schools in the knowledge that Israel will then be extremely reluctant to target them, even during wartime. As a consequence, children are regularly maimed when Hamas explosives accidentally explode while the group is preparing bombs and missiles.

Tom Gross, Hudson Institute New York - http://www.hudson-ny.org/1634/unrwa-palestinian-school-hamas-base - November 2010

 

UNESCO

UNESCO has joined the process of undermining Israel by turning Jewish shrines into Palestinian mosques. UNESCO demands that Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Cave of Patriarchs in Hebron be removed from the new list of Israel's heritage sites. UNESCO, in its biannual session adopted five proposals initiated by Arab member states regarding Jewish and Muslim holy sites.

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001873/187356e.pdf (see how political this is !)

The United Nations body in charge of preserving historical sites worldwide decided last week to redefine the two Jewish shrines as Palestinian mosques.

The Hebrew Patriarch Abraham bought the Cave of Machpelah in Hebron as a burial place for his wife Sarah; Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were also buried there along with their wives. "If the places where the fathers and mothers of the Jewish nation are buried, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Leah and Rachel some 4,000 years ago are not part of the Jewish heritage then what is?" insisted Prime Minister Netanyahu

"It is regrettable that the organization established to promote historical heritage sites worldwide is trying for political reasons to detach the ties between the Jewish people and their heritage." This is merely a move to prepare for the creation of a Palestinian state with no Jewish connection or history.

2011 - UNESCO admitted 'Palestine' as full member
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a vote which resulted in 'Palestine' being added as a full member, despite not being a state recognized by the UN. - See Unilateral State for more detail.

Tuesday, December 13 2011 - President Mahmoud Abbas raised the Palestinian flag for the first time at the headquarters of the UN cultural agency, a move seen as the first step of international recognition of an independent Palestine.

"It is moving to see our flag raised and for it to be flying in this beautiful city of Paris among all the other states," Abbas told UNESCO ambassadors as he hoisted the flag , Reuters reported.

 

 

UN Watch is a non-governmental organization based in Geneva whose mandate is to monitor the performance of the United Nations by the yardstick of its own Charter. www.unwatch.org

Updated 14/12/11

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