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The UN's Treatment of Israel Is Shameful
(Wall Street Journal) Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen - The United Nations is suffering from acute moral failure and can't fulfill its core mission. Israel joined the UN in 1949. Universal humanitarian values, civil liberties, the rule of law and political accountability have always been the foundations of Israeli society. We adhere fully to the UN charter. Yet since Oct. 7, Israel has been fighting a war for survival against an enemy whose goal is our total annihilation. We are the only democracy in a region dominated by violent authoritarian regimes. Israel's enemies are deliberately violating all principles of the UN Charter, international humanitarian law and basic human decency. The atrocities Hamas committed on Oct. 7 were appalling crimes against humanity. You would think such flagrant acts of evil would elicit the strongest of condemnations. Yet the UN, its agencies, and its secretary general fail even to address the crimes of Hamas and other Iranian terror proxies. The UN's betrayal of its own mandate is not new for Israel, which has been the object of double standards for decades. The world's most violent anti-Western forces exploit the UN and promote an agenda radically opposed to its charter and stated goals. Israel is today at the forefront of the struggle against those forces aimed at the destruction of the free world.