Waiting for the UN
Anne Bayefsky's NRO column peers into the near future: "Genocide awaits us." Referring to the United Nations, Bayefsky writes:
[W]e are not only paying for the architect of our intended demise; we are acting as its p.r. firm. President Bush told the nation in his State of the Union Address: “The United Nations has imposed sanctions on Iran, and made it clear that the world will not allow the regime in Tehran to acquire nuclear weapons.” Actually, the U.N. sanctions regime is a pathetic fig leaf — the Russian and Chinese votes having been bought by gutting the original U.S. resolution — and the U.N. has never made it clear that Tehran will not be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.Bayefsky concludes: "[G]enocide awaits us if we wait for the U.N."More accurately, when it comes to Iran, the U.N. treads lightly and carries an even lighter stick. On Friday, the U.N. General Assembly adopted a resolution which “condemns…any denial of the Holocaust.” It doesn’t mention Iran by name, nor contain the word “Jew” or “anti-semitism” — any one of which would certainly have made its adoption much more difficult, if not impossible. The resolution was cosponsored by 103 U.N. states. That leaves 89 — including every Arab state — refusing to cosponsor. It also leaves the U.N.’s lead human-rights agency, the Human Rights Council, dedicated to the continuing demonization and demise of the Jewish state. And it stands side-by-side with the U.N. Department of Public Information opening an exhibit today entitled “The Holocaust against the Roma and Sinti.” Despite this being only the second anniversary of the U.N. day of commemoration, the U.N. has already used the undoubted suffering of others — deserving of attention — as a backdoor to deny the uniqueness of the Holocaust as the unparalleled annihilation of six million Jews.
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