The CA 07/27/11 article (A7) entitled “Officials: 800K African children could die”, is particularly tragic in the fact that such a large scale human disaster may have been easily avoided had the UN been less obsessed with the political agenda of the majority “non-aligned movement” (NAM) that controls the General Assembly. For those who don’t follow the antics of the UN, the NAM consists of 118 countries controlled by the 22 member Arab League. The NAM membership is diverse, including most of Africa, the Mideast - and most small countries without a political alignment with the USA, Europe, China or Russia. Originally the NAM was formed to protect the territorial colonialism of it’s small member/states – a legitimate concern when it was formed in 1961, and still a legitimate concern today.
However, it wasn’t long before the NAM became controlled by the influential members of the 22 member Arab league, and specifically the dictates and agenda of the 12 countries that make up the wealthy oil cartel . This “automatic majority” in the U.N.’s General Assembly gave the NAM total control over the agenda of this once important and effective body. Even though the Wikipedia definition of the NAM describes it as having concerns for human rights and other admirable traits, many of it’s members are dictators, human rights abusers, and banana republic’s with little regard for human life, much less human rights. Of the thousands of resolutions passed by the NAM since 1961, 96% obsess against Israel and for the Palestinian movement. In other words, the U.N. agenda has been hijacked by the anti-Israel Arab League at the expense of the legitimate needs of many around the world – including the 800,000 dying children in Africa.
More tragic than the above mentioned abuse of “voting blocs” within the UN General Assembly is the hypocrisy of the NAM movement itself: The NAM has been colonialized by the Arab League at the expense of the tragedies unfolding in their own backyards. Even the” global political left” (the socialists, the anarchists etc. -and I include President Obama in this category) have bought into the anti-Israel Arab League agenda while ignoring the human tragedies that could have been avoided – had the UN had its priorities straight. Those on the left, who claim the moral high ground and loudly champion “human rights”, have given political support to this grossly anti-Israel movement at the expense of more pressing global issues - and this hypocrisy only serves to de-legitimize their credibility and the credibility of the UN itself.
