Turtle Bay creates a permanent commission to attack the Jewish State.

WSJ Editorial Board

In 2021 the Israeli electorate traded former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s conservative government for a centrist coalition backed by Arab parliamentarians. But the relentless assault against the Jewish State by the United Nations will continue in 2022 and beyond. Last week the General Assembly signed off on a multimillion dollar sinecure for a permanent “Commission of Inquiry” into its most hated member.

The U.N.’s Human Rights Council resolved in May to “investigate violations of international humanitarian law” in the wake of the 11-day Gaza war between Israel and Hamas. The conscientious proponent of the resolution was Pakistan—last seen supporting the Taliban’s Afghanistan takeover—with human-rights champions China and Cuba also voting yes.

The cause of the May conflict was a rocket barrage on Israel by the Iran-backed terrorist groups Hamas, which rules the Gaza strip, and Islamic Jihad. The pretext was an ongoing court battle between Jews and Palestinians over property in an East Jerusalem neighborhood. Because of the success of Israel’s Iron Dome missile defenses, alarms and widespread bomb shelters, only 13 Israelis were killed in the indiscriminate onslaught of more than 4,000 rockets.

About 260 Palestinians were killed as Israel’s air force tried to disable terrorist attack sites packed into civilian areas in Gaza. Israel has said 225 of those killed were militants and some of the remainder were killed by Hamas rockets that fell short of Israel. The U.N. has estimated that half or fewer of the Palestinians killed in the conflict were militants.

Israel’s defense of its civilians was lawful, targeted and restrained, but the U.N. wants to use the war as a pretext to indict Israel for “crimes,” real or imagined. The commission staff, led by figures with records of anti-Israel rhetoric, are charged with “investigating all underlying root causes of recurrent tensions” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (meaning causes excluding Hamas terrorism) and delivering biannual U.N. reports indefinitely into the future.

Israel is already an irrational fixation of the U.N., which issued 17 resolutions condemning it in 2020. But the funding stream approved at the General Assembly Thursday further institutionalizes the anti-Israel libel machine. The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs notes that the new commission will have 24 permanent staff, compared to 20 permanent staff for the Human Rights Council branch covering all of Asia. With an annual budget greater than $5 million, it will fund “790 days of travel for experts and staff every year from 2022 on.”

The commission has issued a public “call for submissions” and will recommend “criminal and command responsibility” for anything Israeli officials have ever done or may do in the future—an extraordinary attack on the sovereignty of a democratic member state.

As international order frays, the U.N. is focused on enlarging impotent bureaucracies and encouraging malevolent ideological campaigns. This will inflame Israeli opinion and do nothing to solve the conflict. The Biden Administration says it will oppose the new commission, but it ought to use it as a reason to exit the Human Rights Council and stop funding it.

The U.N. IS A CUSHY NO BRAIN JOB FOR EVERYONE WHO WORKS THERE....all employees go on 7 day alcohol benders and 8 ball coke binges as soon as they find out they have been appointed to the UN in any capacity whatsoever....

Being appointed to the UN IS LIKE WINNING THE LOTTERY WHEN YOU LIVE IN THE 100+??? SH*THOLE BURGS THAT DOT THE GLOBE...who wouldn't love to move to NYC for free, get a free apartment or cost of living stipend on top of a massive salary ( compared to your native compatriots who live in squaller and sh*t & work extremely hard for $25 a week at best) ????

The U.N. does absolutely nothing but spend money and completes N.O.T.H.I.N.G. OF ANY SUBSTANCE AT ALL...

I WOULD LOVE TO WORK AT THE U.N. AND MAKE
$125 +++L.A.R.G.E. WITH A FREE APARTMENT AND DAILY STIPEND FOR FOOD AND TRAVEL ...

IT SURE BEATS DUMPSTER DIVING , TRASH DAY PICKING, AND DIVING IN TRASH CANS FOR UNCHECKED SCRATCH OFF LOTTERY TICKETS....

jeeezzzz-O- mennngggg those U.N. BASTIDS gots Da'
"Good Life" x ten....

$125,000 is the starting wage for an office secretary in that dump...any other job gets much more$$$$

Sorry about that #2 post....


It was incorrect!!!!


The starting wage for a U.N. office secretary is really

$156,000.00

260% above the NATIONAL U.S.A. AVG. office secretary yearly wage .

You are right they have it good. And, their third and semi-third world countries each get the same single vote that the U.S. does.

Just off the top of my head: We don't really know what they do behind the scenes from and between their embassies. I could see two opposing countries' UN representatives starting a dialogue that is totally private and no country would look bad if it didn't lead anywhere.

The World Bank Group, the WHO, U.N. Agenda 21, then U.N. Agenda 2030, and the Great Reset the World Economic Forum plan, all just part of bringing the world together for a Build Back Better global socialist Utopia. So who are the suckers that have been forced to pay for it and their own destruction?

I suppose NATO serves a purpose that aligns with our goals. Though I have yet to find it and feel NATO is not in our best interests.

I would rather have a 4 to 6 country alliance based on mutual goals. Never have I really thought about who those countries would be.

The first and most important way NATO serves U.S. interests is as a hedge against war. NATO, for lack of a better term, is an insurance policy that benefits both sides of the Atlantic.

Insurance at its core is about providing protection against worst-case scenarios and international security

#8 whistle

I agree

+1

But they are A.L.L. still OVERPAID SLUGS AND LAMPREYS SUCKING $$$$ OUT OF AMERICA...

I don't think the next war will spawn in the European theater. Prolly in East Asia.

That said, my favorite continents to control early in the game of Risk are either/and/or Australia and South America. Then Africa and/or North America. Europe and Asia are hard to hold onto... lots of borders to protect which requires a lot of armies. I use them as a battle ground to collect Risk cards for my inevitable world dominance.

didn't expect this to be your opinion, though I agree.
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Yes!