Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The Moral Equivalence Meme at the UN

Betsy's Page has an excellent post discussing how the UN & Kofi Annan in particular inappropriately engage in moral equivalence to the fighting between Israel & Hezbollah terrorists.

If you wonder why I am so contemptuous of the UN, look at its despicable record on Israel. Any Jews who still have faith in the UN's even-handedness in dealing with this present crisis is just suffering a sad delusion.



She quotes Alan Dershowitz at length to make her point. Here's a snippet;

He goes out of his way to insist on equating Hezbollah's terrorists with Israeli military response, which he labels "disproportionate" and "collective punishment." He condemns both Hezbollah and Israel. He also criticizes Israel for its efforts at preventing Qassam rocket attacks against its civilian populations, noting that the Hamas rockets have produced no "casualties in the past month." (This, of course, is not for lack of trying.) He ignores Hamas' long history of terrorism against innocent civilians.

Annan then calls for an "immediate cessation of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence" on both sides, again suggesting a moral equivalence. Among the most immoral positions anyone can take is to suggest a moral equivalence between morally different actions....


If a space alien from a distant planet were to land at the UN, he would come away with the impression that Israel is not only the sole offender in the Middle East, but the worst offender in the entire world. He would single out Israel for condemnation and exclude it from membership on many UN bodies, on which Syria, Lebanon and Iran serve in positions of honor.


Read it all here.

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