On one level the United Nations seems like a good idea. Get a bunch of the world's leaders together to coordinate, cooperate and work out differences in the world, thereby maintaining peace and fairness.
On another, it's a rigged game. The security council acts as the bullies club with veto power for the chosen few, meaning that not much gets done if the US (and the US's pimp, Israel) doesn't want it.
Take Human Rights. Israel can treat the Palestinians worse than you'd treat an animal, steal their land, evict hundreds of thousands of people from their homes, execute wounded people in the street, imprison children for throwing stones, and get away with it....FOR SEVENTY YEARS! And the UN does absolutely nothing about it. Israel builds its apartheid wall and the UN says it's illegal and nothing is done about it. In the first half of 2018 Israel executes over 135 unarmed Palestinian civilians including a disabled man in a wheelchair for protesting on their own land, wounding and maiming over 15 000 more with live ammunition. It demolishes 200 Palestinian homes and cuts of the Palestinian social fund to families in need. It blockades Gaza so that even the sick can't get medical attention. And the United Nations does absolutely nothing. The US and UK illegally invade Iraq, Libya and bomb Syria and the UN does absolutely nothing.
So, United Nations, your website is full of smiling faces, giving the impression that the UN's presence in the world is a force for good and we can all be at peace knowing the UN is there to protect us. Why not put some photos up showing the carnage in Gaza, the devastation in Libya, Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria? We know why. Because we're all supposed to rest in the illusion that the UN has it all under control.
If you want to see what the UN and US allows Israel to do, and a little of the impact that Israel is having upon the Palestinian people, their culture and their mental health, and just how spurious Israel's claims of "self-defence" are, go to johnpilger.com and watch his excellent documentary for free "Palestine is Still the Issue". In this film you will see evidence of Israel's ethnic cleansing and genocidal policies, including deliberate vandalism with Israeli soldiers' excrement of a Palestinian cultural centre and children's art class. The Palestinian people have been under such rapacious, inhuman attacks by Israel for the past SEVENTY YEARS and there is hardly anything of Palestine left.
If the UN can't stop Israel or the US from international illegality and war crimes then what on earth is the point of it? But in the end, the people of the world will never forget. We'll never forget what the Americans did to the indigenous peoples; what the Australians did to theirs; what Hitler did, and what America, the UN and Israel are doing now. The people will never forget your names and what you've done.
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