Letters
The UN summer of madness
01 August 2004
Dear Sir
Theatre of the absurd
We may be in the middle of our ‘silly season’ but at the United Nations, there is no other season to talk of. Despite finally condemning the iniquities in Sudan, the UN’s main focus this summer has been the Israeli fence. How truly pernicious, we are told, for a country to prevent mass murder on its own doorstep!
The one thing that Israel can never complain about is inconsistent treatment. After all, it has been consistently denied a voice on the Security Council and has never properly sat on a UN regional body. It has been branded a racist state while simultaneously accused of the blood libel. Israel bashing has become the number one hobby of the General Assembly, which scarcely gets called in emergency session for anything else. If Israel did not exist, it would be necessary to invent her.
The plethora of anti Israeli resolutions has stemmed, not from the unbiased perception of Israel’s pariah status, but from an insatiable Arab-Third World bloc intent on delegitimising the Jewish state. This reflects an Alice in Wonderland mentality where black is white, true is false and reason is irrational. This is not so much the United Nations as ‘Utter Nonsense’. But then could there be a more appropriate description for the duplicitous, self serving hypocrisy that infects this body?
It is time for the men in grey suits to come to their senses. Until then, their organization will remain a ‘theatre of the absurd.’
Yours sincerely
Jeremy Havardi
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