John Bolton rightfully criticized the United Nations for its anti-Israel bias. From Powerline:
Bolton was furious over the adoption by the General Assembly of a resolution which said the assembly regretted the deaths of 19 civilians in an attack by the Israeli military in the town of Beit Hanoun last week.
Despite the resolution being significantly watered down at the behest of the United States, and being passing by 156 votes to seven, Bolton launched a blistering attack on the UN, and many of its members.
“Many of the sponsors of that resolution are notorious abusers of human rights themselves, and were seeking to deflect criticism of their own policies,” he said.
“This type of resolution serves only to exacerbate tensions by serving the interests of elements hostile to Israel’s inalienable and recognized right to exist.”
“This deepens suspicions about the United Nations that will lead many to conclude that the organization is incapable of playing a helpful role in the region,” Bolton continued.
“In a larger sense, the United Nations must confront a more significant question, that of its relevance and utility in confronting the challenges of the 21st century. We believe that the United Nations is ill served when its members seek to transform the organization into a forum that is a little more than a self-serving and a polemical attack against Israel or the United States,” he said.
Read more at Powerline, or read his statement in its entirety PDF alarm.
Bolton is almost the opposite of the average ambassador to the UN: he is not very diplomatic and he is not afraid of confrontation. I agree with Bolton that the UN has been taken over by States with a strong anti-Israel bias and, as a result, the UN in general has adopted such an anti-Israel bias.
John Bolton must stay. The West and Israel cannot afford to lose him.
To those who say that he should be more diplomatic I say, diplomacy in its traditional meaning does not always work. Sometimes it is more useful to abandon diplomatic words and to say it like it is.
One of those times is when an organization like the UN is turning into an assembly of Israel’s (and the West’s) enemies, only dedicated to making life more and more difficult for it.
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