Sometimes enough really is just enough. And so it is here.
The United Nations, which emerged out of the ashes of the Second World
War and the Shoah but which has come to embody that which it was
initially formed to oppose, has long ceased serving any useful function.
Ironically founded in no small part to better secure the Jewish fate, the
wretched hive of morally relativistic scum and Western values-loathing
villainy has long succumbed to strongman sycophancy, noxious Arab
supremacism, and perverse Islamist-Leftist dogma. The grotesque body
that once so pusillanimously slandered Zionism as “racism” has now
doubled down on its obsessive Jew-hatred with Friday’s Security Council
passage of Resolution 2334, a disgraceful screed that betrays Leftist
attempts to legitimize the Yitzhak Rabin/Yasser Arafat-negotiated Oslo
Acccords framework and seeks to unilaterally impose final settlement
terms on the Israelis and the Palestinians that would enforce the
(literally) indefensible “1967 borders” armistice line.
Notwithstanding that the “1967 borders,” decried by virtually the entire
Israeli defense edifice and sardonically lambasted by many in the tiny
Jewish state as “Auschwitz borders,” would shrink Israel to a mere nine
miles wide at its narrowest point. Notwithstanding that 2334 rewards the
kleptocratic, jihadi martyr-subsidizing Palestinian Authority, which has
turned down multiple generous Israeli offers of full-fledged statehood in
this century alone, and of late has allied with Muslim Brotherhood
offshoot Sunni sharia supremacist terror group Hamas in a “unity
government,” for instigating a bloody “knife intifada” that consisted of
stabbing as many Jerusalem Jews as the jihadists could find.
Notwithstanding that, under 2334, the two holiest sites in all of Judaism
(the Temple Mount and the Western Wall) have their history scurrilously
rewritten by Islamophilic revisionists so as to unfathomably render them
part of “occupied Palestinian territory.” Notwithstanding that, under
2334, the entire Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem, where Jews
have lived for literally millennia, is also deemed “occupied Palestinian
territory” in its entirety. Notwithstanding that, under 2334, Jesus
(born as a Jew in Bethlehem) would have been considered an “illegal
settler” in “occupied Palestinian territory.” Notwithstanding that, as
my friend Eugene Kontorovich aptly demonstrates, the actual underlying
legal dispute with respect to Judea and Samaria is far from settled.
To say that this is reprehensibly ugly and shameful would be to put it
mildly. Such misanthropic anti-Judeo-Christian and pro-Arabist
historical revisionism is, of course, par for the course for the feckless
dolts at the supra-national, sovereignty-undermining institution that
perverts Manhattan’s East River skyline.
But by not only formally abstaining at the vote but (by all accounts)
also surreptitiously working behind the scenes to lobby passage of
Resolution 2334, the unhinged Obama Administration and its sharia
supremacism-abetting foot soldiers in Foggy Bottom have truly struck a
dagger into the very essence of the American role at the U.N. For
decades, the U.S. could be counted upon to exercise its permanent
Security Council veto to stop such misguided anti-Israel assaults in
their tracks. Indeed, many conservatives reluctantly acceded to U.S.
funding and membership in the international body for something akin to
precisely this reason. Over my personal protestations, I have heard this
express rationale from many conservative friends.
In a moment of true clarity, though, the unholy Leftist trinity of Barack
Obama, John Kerry, and Samantha Power savagely betrayed Israel and
disproved the alleged efficacy of such a long-term strategy. So be it.
But now the global progressive Left, ever in love with its would-be
transnational overlords at the U.N., must pay a steep price for that
betrayal.
That price is simple. Donald Trump and the Republican-led U.S. Congress
should declare war on the United Nations. No actual bullets need be
fired, but it is now time to do everything in our power to destroy any
remaining claimed credibility and legitimacy for the U.N. Yes, destroy.
Fully defunding the God-forsaken multinationalist entity of any U.S.
taxpayer dollars should be an immediate first step. Next, the Trump
Administration should take any and all necessary steps to get that
blighted symbol of illiberal autocracy and Jew-hatred off Manhattan’s
proud skyline. Steve has some good ideas for how to accomplish that.
I’d only add (and, given the U.N.’s idiosyncratic legal status, I’m
actually not positive how this might work) that, despite my usual firm
opposition to eminent domain, I would be on board with the idea of using
it to kick the U.N. out of New York. Removing the Western democracy-
bashing, terrorist-abetting “diplomats” from Turtle Bay might plausibly
count as a “public use” in its own right, per the Fifth Amendment textual
requirement. But to solidify (if necessary, here?) Fifth Amendment
requirements, just for good measure, and also to show what he really
thinks of the amorphous, anti-Semitic “international community,” Trump
should then install an elaborate missile defense system there in the
building’s stead in eastern Manhattan. Right in the rubble of the U.N.
building. And he should point the missile defense system directly at
Tehran.
Next, after the repulsive body is defunded and kicked off our sovereign
shores, and after soon-to-be U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley has
spent a week or two enjoying herself by trolling the international body
and making extensive use of her two middle fingers, the U.S. should
formally and fully withdraw its membership status. The Obama
Administration has singularly destroyed the rationale underlying the only
quasi-legitimate reason to retain membership status, which is to use the
veto power to block irksome Security Council resolutions. That (perhaps
always) quixotic ideal died last Friday, with Samantha Power’s
disgraceful abstention on Resolution 2334. Since there is literally no
other compelling reason for the U.S. to formally bless the legitimacy of
a morally perverse body that praises Fidel Castro but says Jews have no
ties to the Western Wall, we should rip the Band-Aid off in its entirety.
The U.N. already undermines our constitutional self-rule and hamstrings
our foreign policy by submitting it to the capricious whims of autocrats
and dictators. Be gone already.
Finally, after congressional defunding, the building of a missile defense
system in the literal ashes of the former U.N. edifice in Turtle Bay, and
formal withdrawal, conservatives and U.N. skeptics must commence a
systemic, profound assault in the public discourse to deprive the
institution of any extant legitimacy. President Trump should make an
affirmative case for full withdrawal in his State of the Union Address,
and he can supplement the formal case by (in true Trumpist fashion)
adding the occasional mocking insult or two toward Ban Ki-moon and his
illicit henchmen. Trump can taunt their newfound inability to prevent
the U.S. from taking whatever actions it wants to take vis a vis either
the Sunni (e.g., Islamic State or Muslim Brotherhood) or Shi’ite (i.e.,
Iran) jihads. Sitting conservative politicians should make a concerted
effort to tout the benefits of our being constitutionally and
geopolitically unshackled on the Sunday talk show circuit, and in other
mainstream media more broadly. Like-minded Western allies should be
encouraged to follow us out the door and to not look back. And if the
mainstream Jewish establishment (represented by traditional, non-right-
wing groups like AIPAC, AJC, and the Jewish Federations of North America)
has any sense of pride and post-Obama era hardened realism as to the
threats to Israel, it ought to enthusiastically join in this public
relations effort.
With the body sinking deeper and deeper into self-parody, a concerted
effort at shaming, delegitiziming, and (yes) fully withdrawing from the
U.N. is long overdue. The United Nations is a disgraceful black mark on
our national conscience and, upon assuming office, Donald Trump and the
Republican-led Congress should waste little time in stripping these
retrograde anti-Semites of any and all American imprimaturs. As far as
I’m concerned, the Jew-hating scum who pathetically virtue signal when it
comes to Assad’s butchery in Syria but instead choose to focus on anti-
Semitic resolutions like Friday’s 2334 farce can all go to hell. Yes, to
hell.
What was once a well-intentioned attempt to prevent the excesses of
European-style nationalism has long degenerated into a punch line. And a
bigoted Jew-hating punch line, at that. It is long time to assure the
same fate for this toothless body as was met by all the scores of groups
who tried, but failed, over millennia in their own myriad ways to harm
and ultimately eradicate the Jewish people.
Be gone already. United Nations delenda est.
Source:
http://bit.ly/2hqihXi
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