Another disappointing year from the UN and the Press

The United Nations and the mainstream media have exhibited a hypocritical, self-righteous sense of moral superiority that is only matched in its contempt…by a public that is willing to allow the UN and the media to define the issues of the day. Enough is enough.

Arab militias are rampaging across Africa, slaughtering hundreds of thousands and making million homeless, and the UN human rights commission can only muster a condemnation of Israel (for defending itself). The global press, on the other hand, not only doesn't accentuate the fact that the horror in Dafur is a religious war waged by Muslim extremists, but prefers to sell ads to "savedafur.org" rather than put this modern day holocaust on the front page until the public understands the consequences of "doing nothing".

Now the Palestinians in Gaza are fighting among themselves, using massive quantities of weaponry that have poured into Gaza (illegally) since Israel's withdrawal 18 months ago. According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, 31 Palestinian children have been killed in the past 11 months because of internal "security chaos" which includes clan violence as well as inter-factional fighting. Children are in the line of fire, and not a word of condemnation from the UN - which only finds the nerve to raise its voice when it sees an opportunity to condemn Israel for defensive actions against Palestinian terrorists.

The UN and the global press appears satisfied to consider Palestinian on Palestinian anarchy an minor internal Palestinian matter not worthy of discussion, because they don't want to connect the dots: A two state solution to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is unattainable under the present circumstances. A reasonable person could not realistically expect the Palestinian people to make peace with ANYONE – much less Israel, when you factor in the unrelenting incitement to violence that has defined Palestinian society for decades. If the psychological detachment to acts of violence caused by cradle to grave incitement within Palestinian society is to be reversed, it will unquestionably take decades. Talk of a two state solution under these circumstances is totally unrealistic.

My three wishes for the New Year? That the UN/press take a hard stand on Islamic extremists in Africa, that the UN/press scrap the two state solution by declaring Jordan the Palestinian state (and moving the Arabs in the West bank and Gaza to Jordan), and the USA decides that – if the war is worth winning – that the best military plan in Iraq is to devote enough resources to go ahead and "win the war" and then "end the war".