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The Gatestone Institute’s Bassam Tawil recently reminded us of the UN’s long support of jihadist genocidal antisemitism: “United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres is still pushing for the establishment of a Palestinian terror state next to Israel. There are only three ways to read Guterres’s position: he is completely clueless; he wants to see Israel eradicated; or he is happy to oblige his constituents at the UN who would apparently like to see Israel eradicated.”
This hoary solution to a conflict born in Islam’s jihadism and the Koranic sanctioned hatred of Jews, relies on the feckless, arrogant but useful Western idealism that followed the First World War. As Guterres recycles the stale cliché, “The two-State solution with Israelis & Palestinians living side by side in peace & security,” is the only viable path to a just and lasting peace. Guterres wrote this week, “The occupation must end. The inalienable rights of the Palestinian people must be realized. International law must be respected.”
Yet it has been obvious for decades that the “two-state solution” is not about a “nation,” but about creating another “final solution.”
The most obvious evidence that the Palestinian Arabs aren’t killing Jews in order to win a nation comprises the multiple times Israel has offered territory for a state. As Bassam Tawil reminds us, “The Palestinians and their Arab brothers have already voted against a two-state solution many times, starting in November 1947. . .The UN had offered a partition plan dividing then Mandatory Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states with Jerusalem as an international city. . . Rather than accept the offer, the Arabs attacked Jewish civilians and looted Jewish shops, setting them on fire with the apparent aim of terrorizing Jews in order to prevent a Jewish state in any part of the land.”
So how do we explain the UN’s refusal to take “no” for an answer? The answer lies in what we call the “rules-based international order,” a vision of foreign policy that began with the Versailles Treaty after World War I––a reflection of the Western enlightenment and the rise of science, and the notion of progress through technology and global trade. Also significant was secularization––the weakening of faith and religious explanations of a flawed human nature and sinful actions. But religiosity still exists among Muslims, though few commentators follow Gatestone in acknowledging Islam’s religiosity and its sanctified violence.
One ambition for the human sciences––material progress, and improvement of human life––was described by Immanuel Kant’s influential 1795 essay “Perpetual Peace.” The “endless progress” of reason, Kant writes, could create a “federation of free states” that could ensure and maintain global peace and order by transcending the zero-sum interests of different states and peoples, and ensure “perpetual peace.”
This ideal, Kant continues, is not a “chimera, but a problem of which time, probably abridged by the uniformity of the progress of the human mind, promises a solution.” The assumption of a uniformity of aims among different nations, cultures, ethnicities, and peoples that follow the progressive march of science and reason across the globe, characterize the subsequent history of foreign policy idealism to this day––the most important being the United Nations, which is the stepchild of the failed League of Nations that followed World War 1.
The weakness of both the League of Nations and the U.N.––both idealisms derived from Kant’s model of the “world parliament” and “federation of free States” ––is the failure to take into account the complex diversity of flawed human beings and cultures.
Yet the West, from which these and many other ideas derived, became the default model for all humanity–– despite Kant’s neglect of the wisdom of realism that acknowledges irrationalism and evil impulses which haunt all humans. The Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian foundations of the West are filled with such realism and interests which was memorably expressed by George Washington: “It is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.”
Finally, we must remember one of the greatest failures of the UN––a failure that rejected its founding assumptions going back to the League of Nations’ feckless idealism that ignored human nature and the eternal priority of national self-interest among diverse nations.
In 1947, the newborn UN created Resolution 181, which called for Mandatory Palestine to be divided into an Israeli and an Arab nation––the origins of the “two-state solution.” The “solution” was, in fact, a stalking horse for jihadist terrorist murder of Jews living in their ancestral homes–– which happened the following year when five Arab nations, four of them members of the UN, invaded Israel seeking to undo by force the UN’s resolution, and thus besmirching its principles of “nonviolence” going back to their beginning in Kant’s and Woodrow Wilson’s fever dreams that ended in a new form of violent antisemitism.
Rather than punishing those Arab violators of the UN’s principle, the UN became a facilitator of antisemitism, demonizing Israel and targeting it as a global menace to “human rights,” while letting actual enemies of justice sit on tribunals staffed with communists and terrorists.
Finally, for too long this country has squandered trillions of our tax-dollars on resorts for bureaucratic grifters and global busy-bodies at the UN. Our Founders, who gave us the Constitution declaring us free and equal, must be spinning in their graves.
The UN still willfully blind to the historical fact that after more than 1400 years of the propagation of Islam, over 270 million Jews, Christians, Africans, Hindus, Buddhists and Muslims were murdered. Given that for every Muslim, Mohammed is considered the perfect model for their lives then it’s no wonder that Islam is what it is and cannot be reformed as so many in the West want. Those verses in the Koran about killing Jews and other non-believers are immutable. This means that there can never be a two state solution. As for United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, he’s an ignorant and dangerous fool.
Arafat while waving Pistol and Fidel Castro got Standing Ovations from those UN idiots they want t o disarm us open up our Private Property and all of America to Invasion want to force America into this whole Global Warming/Climate Change Scam
The communist spy Alger Hiss isn’t spinning. He intended this bullshit.
He was a huge voice to FDR insisting on an improved “league of nations”.
Add this cesspool to one more thing that Trump doesn’t have time to focus on. (Surprising, considering what was pulled on him on his recent visit.)
Can’t we at least relocate this clown show to the Hague?
None are so blind as those who will not see.
The only thing that unites the United Nations is their Jew hatred. Otherwise, they’d all be at each other’s throats.
I’d say that righteous Mr. Thornton has articulated a prayer, more than a historical, philosophical analysis
of the dark side of human nature. It is a fervent prayer asking God: when will the world abandon the two-state notion conceived as a ruse to selectively destroy point two percent of all of God’s people around the world and concentrated primarily in point zero zero zero one five percent of the world’s land area? When will there be true, universal moral responsibility?
When God informed Abraham of the impending total destruction of Sodom and Gamorrah, there ensued a dialogue between the two that I interpret as the inaugural moment of God’s transferring, for the first time, and Abraham’s accepting, as the first human being to do so, moral responsibility towards his fellow sojourner on this earth.
This is what Israel’s ‘chosen-ness’ entails. Being ‘chosen’ demands divinely articulated moral responsibility here on earth.
Fearing God and being mindful of and fulfilling the 613 commandments as enumerated in the Torah, the nation of Israel’s ‘Constitution’ – that’s Israel’s ‘job’ as the ‘chosen’ people.
To some, the moral weight of thus being ‘chosen’ is a burden to be abandoned; but to most, the embrace of ‘chosen-ness’ brings blessing.
The hateful world only sees, and is jealous of, the blessings.
On October 7th the ‘world’ ganged up in such an orchestrated orgy of Jew hatred, that, it became clearly evident why God has set aside for eternity the land of Israel as an eternal protection and refuge for the ‘chosen’.
But curiously, the man-made nations of the world assume their existence will be eternal…….and they all ‘agree’ that there’s just no room for a tiny God-made home for Israel on land they did not create.
But, of course, since God made the earth, and, to quote God, as recorded by Moses in the Torah, “All the earth is Mine”, on whose land then, are the other one hundred ninety two plus ‘sovereign’ countries of the world?
May Mr. Thornton’s prayer be answered, as we say, “speedily, in our days”.
B’ezrat HaShem (with the help of God) Am Yisrael Chai
If we weren’t still a member of this bilious organization we wouldn’t need stupid articles like this one and the attendant comments that always accompany them.
This UN subject is about as useless as the Savannah Guthery mom meme and the Bad Bunny meme combined.
Can we move on already?
Well, because I’m sure you’re deeply interested, Kid Rock’s latest release destroyed But Bunny’s.
And add Epstain, affordability, “AI” and “ICE out” to the memes all real Americans hate and even most scumbags hate.
The Founders would be horrified to learn how America:
-legalized killing infants in the womb
-defended heterosexual marriage than changed the law to legalize what is an abomination to our Creator
-allows judges to free criminals and incarcerate law keepers like Derek Chavin
-disrespects Jews-You worship what you do not know; we know what we worship, for salvation is of the Jews. John 4:22
-The Jews helped save America https://michaelthal.com/a-true-chanukah-story-george-washingtons-first-chanukah/
-taxes citizens way beyond what the king of England did
May Americans repent and return to their creator by following His Holy Word.
The UN: still evil after all these years. The calculated destabilization of the world isn’t enough and hasn’t been for a long time. Only the genocide of Jews will do.
Listen to the moral majority of Americans, President Trump. Withdraw from the UN, raid and raze its criminal headquarters, boot the organization out of America and treat its member countries as pariahs whenever practical..
The UN and António Guterres the leader of this criminal cabal is filled with useless men getting paid to advance agendas that only profit themselves and their friends. They are not interested in advancing humanity or stopping wars it is and has always been about $$$$.
The UN is willfully blind and now going broke thanks to President Trump not funding their wasteful, anti Sematic and pro terrorist programs.
There may be help coming. Thanks to President Trump withdrawing funding, Secretary General Gutierrez has recently said that the UN will be bankrupt by July. May it rest in hell.