Will Obama Use His UN Veto?
Jeane Kirkpatrick, described an emergency session of the UN Security Council thusly: “What takes place in the Security Council more closely resembles a mugging than either a political debate or an effort at problem-solving.... Israel is cast as villain...in [a] melodrama...that features... many attackers and a great deal of verbal violence. ... The goal is isolation and humiliation of the victim. ... The attackers, encountering no obstacles, grow bolder, while other nations become progressively more reluctant to associate themselves with the accused, out of fear that they themselves will become a target of bloc hostility.”…
The 6 million Jews of Israel, who have only one vote in the UN, face a billion and half Muslims, who have 50 votes. It is the American veto in the UN Security Council that provides a potential line of defense for them…
The questions raised by the U.S. response to the flotilla ambush and the proliferation issue are pointed and pregnant. Are we in for a stream of Security Council Presidential Statements and resolutions that are silent on the terrorist threat, that delegitimize and condemn Israel, summon it before hostile tribunals, curtail its freedom of action to defend its citizens, indict its leaders, and maybe eventually put it under sanctions?
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