The Stacked Deck

That the United Nations would pass resolutions critical of Israel, that the Security Council would call for an immediate ceasefire that would leave Hamas in situ to fire rockets at Israel and proclaim their victory- that of a terror group over a democracy, should surprise no one. The die was cast with the composition of the UN with tyrannies outnumbering democracies many times over as members of the august body, with some of the democracies having age-old animosity toward Jews as is reflected in their perpetration of the Shoah or active collaboration with the Nazis or calculated silence over the Holocaust when even public declarations offered the chance to slow the German machinery of genocide, participation in pogroms, and even in the Inquisition. These nations which could not wait to rid themselves of Jews, can never be counted on to fairly assess a moral equation between Israel and those who are committed to destroying the Jewish state. They will always seek some flaw in the conduct of today's Jew to justify the anti-Semitic actions of their progenitors. If Jews may be portrayed as Nazis (a gross falsehood and mischaracterization of the ethical conduct of the IDF by the way, as no military force in history has gone farther to protect innocent life even imperiling Israeli troops to protect people who are in favor of the removal of the Jewish state at a minimum and more often than not would support the genocide of Jews), the destruction of the Jews of Europe becomes easier to rationalize. Arab and Muslim members of the General Assembly will vote against Israel at every turn. Nations in the thrall of the left the world over will routinely denounce Israel. Israel's restraint of using surgical precision and jeopardizing their own ground forces will win few friends in the UN as multi-lateralism has become the enemy of democracies acting in their self-interest in general and Israel protecting herself in particular. It is disheartening though that in the waning days of the Bush administration that the US did not veto the UNSC ceasefire resolution that if implemented, rewards terror and the deliberate use of Palestinian civilians as hostages for Hamas or Hamas's willing accomplices as human shields to defeat this imperiled democracy only inviting future attacks by Hamas, Hizbullah, and their sponsor Iran.