Archive for December 2004

Anti-Semitism and the UN

A sham of a mockery of a travesty of a sham.
Yet another reason why the UN building needs to be turned into condos…

The contortions necessary to arrive at this conclusion resulted in a decision that there is no right of self-defense under the U.N. Charter when terrorists are not state actors. But just in case anyone missed the point, Judge Tanaka spoke of “the so-called terrorist attacks by Palestinian suicide bombers against the Israeli civilian population” (emphasis added) and Judge Elaraby (Egyptian ambassador to the U.N. until 1999) affirmed a “right of resistance” on the grounds, judicially speaking of course, that “violence breeds violence.”