Don't Appease the United Nations
BEICHMAN, ARNOLD
Don't Appease the United Nations We're better off going it alone. BY ARNOLD BEICHMAN FROM THE FALL OF FRANCE and the retreat from Dunkirk in June 1940 until America was attacked at Pearl Harbor,...
...Like its other moral inversions, the U.N.'s challenge to Israel's right to exist as a nation is also a challenge by the U.N...
...Commission on Human Rights...
...Mugabe fixes his own reelection, arrests his election opponent, suppresses press freedom, encourages lynchings and seizure of private property, so Zimbabwe is elected a member of the Commission on Human Rights...
...And Australia, for alleged mistreatment of refugees and aborigines...
...And all these cheerleaders of terror sit in the U.N., an "organization [that] is based on the sovereign equality of all Members...
...In other words the CHR is one of several U.N...
...Winston Churchill knew what to do...
...This is the same group that booted the United States last year in a fit of pique...
...When the U.N...
...The degradation of the U.N...
...came into existence in 1945, there were 51 members...
...Our fight is not only against worldwide terrorism but also with those who cheer, encourage, and even legitimize the terrorists...
...Germany had also invaded its onetime ally the Soviet Union in June 1941, but that battle did little to diminish the power of the Luftwaffe, which rained destruction over Britain night after night...
...In 1940 and 1941, Britain fought alone against great odds and won...
...Well, Israel mostly...
...actively interferes with doing...
...Well, so be it...
...The Europeans are Arnold Beichman, a former correspondent at the United Nations, is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution...
...What this sovereign equality means is that the votes of Burundi, Cuba, Fiji, Haiti, Palau, and Somalia equal the votes of the United States or Japan or Germany...
...This challenge will only grow if we fail to confront the anti-democratic bloc that now runs the United Nations...
...majority to the United States and its goal of spreading freedom and respect for human rights worldwide...
...Commission on Human Rights and the West swallows it meekly, that's appeasement...
...This week, just after another suicide bombing had killed 15 near Tel Aviv, the U.N...
...investigate...
...is symbolized by the nose-thumbing action of the majority ensconced in the U.N...
...ambivalent about this war...
...Britain fought for its survival alone for 17 months...
...continental Europe was in Nazi hands and couldn't help...
...General Assembly voted 74-4 to condemn Israel for its lack of cooperation with that body...
...Today there are 189, all of them blessed by the U.N...
...If our core values are at stake, then of course we can shoulder the burden of defending them alone...
...When Zimbabwe can be elected to the U.N...
...BY ARNOLD BEICHMAN FROM THE FALL OF FRANCE and the retreat from Dunkirk in June 1940 until America was attacked at Pearl Harbor, England fought alone against the most formidable military machine in the world...
...Charter, which states that "the organization is based on the sovereign equality of all Members" and that membership "is open to all peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter and in the judgment of the Organization are able and willing to carry out these obligations...
...This vote is of a piece with the U.N.'s usual double standard: one that indicts democracies and another that exculpates the anti-democracies...
...And against the power of the anti-democratic U.N...
...And Canada, for allegedly practicing "torture" and mistreatment of minorities...
...And won...
...And Zimbabwe and China get to sit in judgment on violations of human rights in Canada and Australia, all in the name of equality...
...Whom have they now seen fit to add to the commission...
...majority, a parliamentary trick had to be exploited by the West in order to return the United States to membership on this commission...
...institutions where the criminals sit in judgment on themselves, exploiting the democratic idea of majority voting, a practice banned in their own countries, to absolve themselves of crimes against their own people...
...With members like these, whom does the U.N...
...It is an obscenity that this commission includes such human rights violators as Cuba, China, Libya, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan, whose genocidal race and religious war against that country's Christians goes bloodily on without demur from the CHR...
...America is almost infinitely stronger than Britain was six decades ago...
...Indeed, defending democracy and human rights against the world's terrorist thugs is something the U.N...
...Zimbabwe, whose dictator Robert Mugabe has violated about every principle that the commission presumably stands for...
...Today, as the United States prosecutes the war on terror, it finds itself like Britain six decades ago: with few reliable allies...
...We're often told that America can't "go it alone," but that's preposterous...
...The United Nations is often hostile...
...The alternative to going it alone is appeasement...
Vol. 7 • May 2002 • No. 35
