Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Politely Eliminating Israel
Daniel Pipes chronicles the U.N. campaign to "disappear" Israel.
The left has this thing about the purity and sanctity of the United Nations. They love this institution-turned-gangsters'-nest as if its members were embarked on great missions and had great wells of good will awaiting them around the world. This even holds for the likes of Robert Mugabe and Iran's President ActMadInJihad, the latter having just pronounced the Holocaust "myth". I can't imagine a more base defamation of that word, but he is after all a fascist, and that's what fascists do with the truth: they twist it into a cruel irony and then use it to justify slaughter and genocide. Why? Because that's what fascism is always about.
Today, fascist leaders use the tattered remnants of the U.N.'s legitimacy as a front for their dream of ridding the world of Israel. Israel is anathema to fascism; it was born out of the fires of a worldwide war against that very evil, has since repelled every attack by it, and now finds it necessary to face it down once again by challenging the authority of the U.N. in its flirtations with Iran. There is clearly an anti-Israeli culture emanating from within the U.N., and I'm glad Pipes has shone his light on it.
The left has this thing about the purity and sanctity of the United Nations. They love this institution-turned-gangsters'-nest as if its members were embarked on great missions and had great wells of good will awaiting them around the world. This even holds for the likes of Robert Mugabe and Iran's President ActMadInJihad, the latter having just pronounced the Holocaust "myth". I can't imagine a more base defamation of that word, but he is after all a fascist, and that's what fascists do with the truth: they twist it into a cruel irony and then use it to justify slaughter and genocide. Why? Because that's what fascism is always about.
Today, fascist leaders use the tattered remnants of the U.N.'s legitimacy as a front for their dream of ridding the world of Israel. Israel is anathema to fascism; it was born out of the fires of a worldwide war against that very evil, has since repelled every attack by it, and now finds it necessary to face it down once again by challenging the authority of the U.N. in its flirtations with Iran. There is clearly an anti-Israeli culture emanating from within the U.N., and I'm glad Pipes has shone his light on it.
