Why the Zionist Neocons Hate the U.N.

After World War II, it was recognized that in order to prevent future wars of aggression, there was a need for an international organization, one more powerful than the League of Nations which the US had refused to join. Unfortunately, one of the United Nations' first creations, the state of Israel, turned into a Frankenstein monster occupying its neighbors. As shown on the map on page xiii in Jimmy Carter's "Palestine Peace Not Apartheid," the 1947 UN Partition Plan divided Palestine into two roughly equal parts, but since then Israel has occupied the whole area.

The Israel Lobby-dominated media gave much publicity to Saddam Hussein's non-compliance with UN resolutions but America knows little about Israel's non-compliance. Yet, it was pointed out in "The Iraq Study Group Report," that Israeli-Palestinian peace is key to solving our problems in the Middle East and that peace should be based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973). The texts of these resolutions can be found in Carter's book: Appendix 1 (p.217) and Appendix 2 (p.219). Resolution 242 states that "Emphasizing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war..," Israel should withdraw from occupied territories. Resolution 338 reaffirms this. Israel, of course, refuses to comply and instead builds illegal Jewish settlements on occupied Arab land.

There would be many more UN Security Council resolutions critical of Israel, but between 1972 and 2006 the US has vetoed 42 such resolutions. (See Mearsheimer and Walt "The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy" p. 40.) There have, however, been numerable UN General Assembly resolutions condemning Israel which have passed overwhelmingly, opposed mainly by the US and Israel. For instance, as noted in Norman Finkelstein's book "Beyond Chutzpah" (p.6) , a 1989 UN General Assembly resolution calling for a two-state solution and Israel's withdrawal to the 67 borders passed 151-3, opposed only by the US, Israel, and Dominica. Similarly in 2004, a General Assembly resolution calling for Israel to withdraw from Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 passed 160-6 with only the US, Israel, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Palau, and Uganda opposing. Thus, the UN highlights the fact that the world opposes Israel's never-ending occupations. This is why the Zionist neocons hate the UN and work to destroy it.