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[Order David Horowitz’s new book, America Betrayed, HERE.]
Benjamin Kerstein has cast a skeptical eye on the so-called “international community,” and suggests it is time to put an end to this malignant entity. His argument can be found here: “The ‛International Community’ Has No Right to Exist,” by Benjamin Kerstein, JNS.org, June 2, 2024:
Recent decisions against Israel by the International Criminal Court and International Court of Justice, which are clearly intended to rescue Hamas and aid and abet its genocidal war on the Jewish state, can only reinforce a truism often expressed by Israelis: Kol ha’olam negdeinu. “The whole world is against us.”
Israelis have reason enough to feel this way, but it is worth asking whether it’s actually true. What, after all, is the “whole world”?
If the term refers to world popular opinion, then it is almost certainly wrong. It is unlikely that the majority of the world’s 8 billion human beings particularly care about Israel. If they do, it can only be in the most shallow and cursory way.
In another sense, however, Israelis’ angry rumination is quite accurate: What is often called the “international community” is most certainly against Israel.
The phrase “international community” is usually used as shorthand for the entire world. In fact, the international community is an elite, a clique, even something like a religious sect. It is made up of the vanishingly small minority of privileged and powerful people who work at or with an alphabet soup of international organizations and NGOs led by the United Nations.
It is worth emphasizing how small this cabal actually is. The largest international organization—the United Nations—employs some 116,000 people in total. This is approximately half the number employed by Microsoft. Most international organizations, including ostensibly independent NGOs, are much smaller. Even with various envoys and diplomats from each participating country thrown in, it is highly unlikely that the “international community” consists of more than 500,000 people. If, for the sake of argument, we double that number to 1 million, it would constitute only 0.0125% of the global population. This may be a “community” and is certainly “international,” but it is by no means “the world.”
This tiny sect received its privileges via a series of historical anomalies. It was constructed out of the wreckage of World War II when, hoping to prevent a World War III, the victorious Allies formed the United Nations—the brainchild of progressive U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who hoped to realize his predecessor Woodrow Wilson’s failed vision of the League of Nations….
This perpetual farce would have been amusing but not disastrous except for the fact that the international community swiftly began to take on a very sinister form. The reasons are well-known. Put simply, most of those who made up the international community represented authoritarian or totalitarian regimes. Thus, the international community inevitably became more and more amenable to authoritarianism and totalitarianism, so long as it was practiced by the right people. Beginning in the 1970s, as terrorism became a major tool of the world’s tyrants, the international community increasingly endorsed the most horrendous atrocities and the organizations that committed them. It was inevitable that this would end in a scramble to rescue a genocidal terrorist organization from near-certain destruction….
There are more despotisms than democracies in the world, and at the UN they set the tone, determine the agenda, and command a majority of the votes. The most important of these are the Arab bloc of 22 states, and the even larger bloc of 57 Muslim states. And these blocs have turned the UN into an obsessively anti-Israel organization, where more resolutions are passed against the Jewish state than against all the other 193 member states combined. The Arabs and Muslims have prevented any effective action being taken at the UN against the terrorists belonging to the PLO, Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, PFLP, Hezbollah — which have made life so difficult for Israelis.
The “international community” may still be able to exert enough pressure on Israel — through, say, enforcing a boycott of its exports — to make the IDF stop fighting before it has totally dismantled Hamas.
The international community is not working. Because it is not working, it is killing people. It’s time for those disinclined towards terrorism, genocide, and their attendant pathologies to give up on the mad dreams of long-dead progressives. They must finally pull the curtain down on a blood-soaked and very expensive farce that has already gone on for far too long.
In other words, the world’s democracies should abandon the UN, and instead forge their own multilateral political institutions, akin to the military alliance of NATO, to replace the sullied-beyond-repair UN. This League of Democracies would consist of member states resolutely opposed to terrorism, especially the Islamic version that has in its sites not just Israel, but the entire non-Muslim world. This alliance would also establish rules to drastically limit, and ideally to halt, economic and other migration from the Third World to the First, sealing off the advanced West from those who would, if they could, flood into it by the hundreds of millions, destroying the host economies and ultimately, through demographic change, transforming — for the worse — their societies as well.
Vic says
I’ve been screaming UN out of US for quite some time. So yeah, let’s dissolve it. Let’s finally decide to move away from terrorists, their sympathizers, imperialists, totalitarians, communists,marxists, thugs & malcontents. If only we had the common sense.
Beez says
Sen. Dick Turban would never allow it.
THX 1138 says
If only we had the right philosophy and the right moral code of rational selfishness and self-preservation.
“Make America Great Again” is rational selfishness. “America First” is rational selfishness. Self-preservation is rational selfishness. And there’s nothing wrong with rational selfishness.
“The greatest obstacle to U.S. victory is not Iran and its allies, but our own intellectuals. Even now, they are advocating the same ideas that caused our historical paralysis. They are asking a reeling nation to show neighbor-love by shunning “vengeance.” The multiculturalists—rejecting the concept of objectivity—are urging us to “understand” the Arabs and avoid “racism” (i.e., any condemnation of any group’s culture). The friends of “peace” are reminding us, ever more loudly, to “remember Hiroshima” and beware the sin of pride.
These are the kinds of voices being heard in the universities, the churches, and the media as the country recovers from its first shock, and the professoriate et al. feel emboldened to resume business as usual. These voices are a siren song luring us to untroubled sleep while the fanatics proceed to gut America.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
Intrepid says
If you have the right moral code what are you going to do besides endlessly post silly articles by Lenny P***k0ff and whine about everything.
You are a cowardly, little narcissist who has deluded yourself into thinking selfishness is somehow noble. The idea of risking your life to help someone that is in desperate need is loathsome to you because you see your life as infinitely more valuable than that of anyone in need, regardless of how much they are suffering. You are the personification of meritless pride and delusional self-worth. All of your Randian nonsense is simply a cloak for concealing your truly ignoble nature.
Moshe says
Intrepid — try to make your points without revealing what a douchebag you are.
Intrepid says
If I did that I would look like the weak little douchebag you are.
Ed DeFonzo says
Eddie here…..sorry you refuse to admit what i work for is mine….
If i volunteer to help that’s also mine to do and not yours !
let’s go enjoy some Drambuie !
Ed DeFonzo says
whatever you say needs more reasoning !
You cannot agree with ANYONE who provides common sense !
Too many of our ” biggies ” are irrationally greedy……
having more than anyone else is not enough
Yeah d—it i’m Eddie
I know you dislike me because i disagree with you…………
THX 1138 says
“[Seventy-five] years ago, Truman and Eisenhower surrendered the West’s property rights in oil, although that oil rightfully belonged to those in the West whose science, technology, and capital made its discovery and use possible. The first country to nationalize Western oil, in 1951, was Iran. The rest, observing our frightened silence, hurried to grab their piece of the newly available loot.
The cause of the U.S. silence was not practical, but philosophical. The Mideast’s dictators were denouncing wealthy egotistical capitalism. They were crying that their poor needed our sacrifice; that oil, like all property, is owned collectively, by virtue of birth; and that they knew their viewpoint was true by means of otherworldly emotion. Our Presidents had no answer. Implicitly, they were ashamed of the Declaration of Independence. They did not dare to answer that Americans, properly, were motivated by the selfish desire to achieve personal happiness in a rich, secular, individualist society.
The Muslim countries embodied in an extreme form every idea—selfless duty, anti-materialism, faith or feeling above science, the supremacy of the group—which our universities, our churches, and our own political Establishment had long been upholding as virtue. When two groups, our leadership and theirs, accept the same basic ideas, the most consistent side wins.” – Leonard Peikoff, “End States Who Sponsor Terrorism”
Intrepid says
More useless burblings of the almost deceased Lenny Puke-off. Did he fix anything? No. Have you fixed anything? No.
Looks like you turned just like him. A worthless pile who bleats and whines and accomplishes nothing.
Intrepid says
Correction: Looks like you turned out just like him
Miranda Rose Smith says
For 20 years or more, I’ve been saying that the Mayor of New York should invoke Kelo vs New London, and kick the U.N. off those 18 acres of centrally located, river view, Manhattan real estate.
SPURWING PLOVER says
We want no part of any UN-Global Community or Global Neighborhood we don’t want Open Borders we want the UN Removed from America Period
Mo de Profit says
The UN is not a small organisation, it might appear to be but it has so many offshoots and fingers in so many pies it is the equivalent of a criminal money laundering operation.
For example, the World pHarma Organisation is a part of it.
It has a condom supply chain operating out of Copenhagen.
And as for NGO’s just about ALL of them are government funded through the UN. It is a distraction, NONE Government Organisation funded by the government????
Defund the UN now it is corrupt and evil.
KenPF says
The U.N. is arguable worse than the League of Nations. The League was merely useless and failed to prevent WW II, but at least it never sided with one side or the other. The U.N. is actively promoting terrorism especially through its pro-Hamas UNRWA.
It seems however to be useless to promote any replacement. If the League of Democracies “would consist of member states resolutely opposed to terrorism” that would rule out most of Europe and the U.S. as well. Whenever the Democrats run the U.S. which is most of the time, they are not opposed to terrorism; they actively support it.
So who aside from Israel exactly will inhabit this new organization?
No one I can think of.
George says
Ok What about the League of White People for law and freedom?
Mo de Profit says
That is perfect but…
SPURWING PLOVER says
The whole UN is Unamerican