(Los Angeles Times) Alan Dershowitz - For more than a quarter of a century, the UN has actively encouraged terrorism by rewarding its primary practitioners, legitimating it as a tactic, condemning its victims when they try to defend themselves, and describing the murderers of innocent children as "freedom fighters." By rewarding Arafat and the PLO, the UN made it clear that the best way to ensure that your cause is leapfrogged ahead of others is to adopt terrorism as your primary means of protest. Now that the victims of "national liberation terrorism" are UN employees instead of Jewish babies, maybe the UN will finally come to its senses and understand that by legitimating and rewarding terrorism, they have created a Frankenstein monster that can be turned against any nation, organization, or group.
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