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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-UN-is-unable-to-resist-its-anti-Israel-fix-474628
With Anti-Israel Obsession, UN Ignores World's Greater Problems
(Jerusalem Post) Amb. Ron Prosor - During one of the numerous events at the UN to mark the anniversary of the UN Partition Plan which led to the establishment of the Jewish state, the president of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson of Fiji, chose to drape himself in the Palestinian flag, crossing a red line that Israel must simply not accept. In all my years as Israel's Ambassador to the UN, I never observed this kind of identification with any country, in any context. When Fiji sent its representative to fill a role as prominent and prestigious as that of GA president, it surely did not expect that he would disgrace himself or his country by acting like a PLO demonstrator, trampling upon the values on which the UN was founded. Thomson wrapping himself in the Palestinian flag is symbolic of the moral bankruptcy of the UN and its representatives, who continue selling their souls in return for Arab votes, while welcoming any Palestinian propaganda, however dishonest, from the UN podium. The creation of Israel, shortly after the establishment of the UN, expressed the very values of freedom, liberty and equality upon which the UN was founded. Since then, however, the UN has been taken hostage by tyrants and dictators, and driven by the darkest influences in the global community which have wiped out all trace of the principles they inherited. The UN has not brought to an end the killings of civilians by autocrats, it has not defeated Islamic State, it has not found solutions to climate change, it has not overcome the challenges of desertification, and it has not put an end to violence against women. It is time for the UN to focus on what is wrong in the world instead of condemning what is right. The writer, Israel's former ambassador to the UN, holds the Abba Eban Chair for International Diplomacy at IDC Herzliya.