The headquarters of the United Nations
in Israel is located in Jerusalem on the site known as the "Hill of Evil
Counsel"--where Ahithophel advised Absalom on how to wrest the kingdom from
David (2 Sam16:21,17:2). It is doubtful that the organization's possession
of this site is coincidental.
United against Israel!
The United Nations has been deeply
penetrated by the Arabs and their propaganda. It has become a devoted Arab
ally-a tool that applies considerable pressure to Israel, often forcing it
to comply with Arab demands under the threat of sanctions. The combined
power of the Arab and Soviet blocs (a former powerful, virulently
anti-Semitic opponent of Israel) gave them "complete control of the United
Nations, it's microphones, and it's printing presses."
The amount of time the United Nations actually spends
discussing and condemning the Jewish state is incredible. It is a fact that
the Security Council has targeted Israel-devoting "30 percent of all it's
meetings, and a full one-third of all it's resolutions" to a country that
contains "less than one-thousandth of the worlds population." And this is
"in an era of totalitarian repressions, wholesale massacres, expulsions of
vast populations, expanding slavery and unspeakable acts of genocide." The
Security Council has issued "31 expressions of concern, seven warnings, and
49 condemnations against Israel." But not until Saddam Hussein invaded
Kuwait was there ever a resolution made against an Arab country, not even in
1982 when Hafez Assad of Syria personally ordered the slaughter of 20,000
people in the city of Hama, who were from a rival sect. Syrian soldiers
systematically sealed the occupants inside the houses and pumped in cyanide
gas before bulldozing the city under a mound of dirt. Numerous wars,
indescribable atrocities and hundreds of terrorist acts that have taken
thousands of lives have been carried out by Arab states, but until the time
of the Gulf War the United Nations Security Council never once warned,
censured or condemned a single Arab state. The United Nations looked the
other way when Syria used the cyanide gas against it's civilians in 1983,
just as it had done when Egypt used mustard gas against the Yemenis in 1966.
It stared glassy-eyed in the opposite direction when Iran and Iraq used some
1,000 tons of nerve gas against each other during their eight-year war, and
also when Iraq killed thousands of it's Kurdish people with chemical weapons
in 1988.
Just prior to the Gulf War, Syria
invaded the Christian enclave in Lebanon with some 2,000 tanks and 40,000
troops and virtually wiped it out. The bodies of about 600 Christian army
officers were shown on Israeli television and also published in the Israeli
press--the men had been bound hand and foot and shot through the back of the
head. The White house turned a convenient blind-eye to the activities of
it's new found ally; the American news media omitted any mention of the
atrocity, and the United Nations also remained true to it's form by not
raising a peep of protest either.
When Israel
deported 12 Palestinian terrorists in early January 1992, the United Nations
"strongly condemned" Israel for doing so. A denunciatory resolution by the
PLO was not considered sufficiently strong enough by the United Nations
American delegate, Thomas Pickering, who proposed the much more stinging
resolution--"strongly condemned"--which was passed. And concerning the tern
"strongly condemn," a Washington political consultant points out:
The phrase (strongly condemn), the most severe of
diplomatic terms, was not used against states which sponsor international
terrorism, nor when an outlaw nation invaded a neighbor and plundered it,
nor when Arab terrorists murder Jews, Israeli's or any other nationality,
indiscriminately in airports, nursery schools or city streets."
The Syrian army can invade a neighboring country,
kill thousands and execute hundreds of helpless, bound prisoners without a
single American or United Nations voice being raised in protest. But when
Israel simply deported 12 terrorists, it was "strongly condemned" by the
same hypocrites that kept silent over atrocities committed by their
"friends." It was perhaps poetic justice that Pickering fell from grace and
was removed from his position one month later!
United with the PLO!
In late October 1974, the
United Nations General Assembly voted "to disregard the provisions of the
Charter" and to invite Yasser Arafat, the head of the
PLO terrorist organization, to address the General Assembly. The man elected
as "president of the General Assembly during the session in which Arafat was
to speak was himself a former Algerian terrorist."
"Escorted, beaming, to the rostrum of the General Assembly on November
13, a pistol visible in his belt, the Fatah leader immediately made clear
the he was demanding a state for all of Palestine and that the very
existence of the Israeli republic had no place in his scheme."
He was rapturously received. Indeed, he received a standing ovation, and
nobody seemed to object to his wearing a (prohibited) pistol into the
chamber!"
Arafat's status and that of the PLO were enhanced by the United Nations
recognition. The United Nations recognized not only the PLO terror
organization, but also recognized the legality of the armed struggle with
Israel. And in 1992 the United Nations Human Rights Commission affirmed the
right of the Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation by all means
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