The U.N. has proven itself to be a failed Institution.

No one on earth likes what has happened to Syria. With 500,000+ dead and millions displaced, a reassessment of the U.N., as an institution must take place. Not all conflicts have a political/diplomatic solution.

What happens in Syria going forward no one knows, but one thing we do know: Even though Russia’s economy and military are a fraction of America’s, Russia’s willingness to use their assets to intervene in world conflicts has raised their stature among their allies and raised the fear factor among their enemies.

When the history books are written about the Syrian conflict, I can only imagine how it will treat President Obama. His half-hearted meddling in the conflict…his threats of political and military action that never materialized, only served to pro-long the war and gave the Assad regime the “go ahead” to use chlorine barrel bombs after the Obama “red-line” disappeared.

Whether you like it or not, the only thing that stopped this festering 6 year war was the intervention of the Russians with their willingness to backup their ally, Syria, with unwavering military support in order to defeat their enemy and force a truce on Russian terms.

The shame on the U.N. (and the Obama administration) is that this war never should have happened. The very least the U.N. could have done is created “safe zones” to protect civilians and prevent the displacement of millions of Syrians from their homeland. What did the U.N. focus on while Syria burned? It continued its obsession against Israel - the only true beacon of peace, stability and democracy in the region – aided by the Obama administration. 

I hope that the Trump administration forces the U.N. reform itself (if that is possible), because as it stands now, it is a forum for banana republics and dictators to make a mockery of the very high minded concepts on which the U.N. was founded. As for Obama gnaging up with the rest of the U.N. on Israel: If the USA didn't have a seat on the Security Council - which gives it blanket amnesty with it's veto - the U.N. would be obsessed with ganging up on America like it does on Israel.

The last gasp of a failed Obama Presidency

President Obama, in his last days in office - and against Congressional bi-partisan support FOR ISRAEL - ordered the U.S. vote to “abstain” (rather than veto) and therefore let pass, an anti-Israel Security Council resolution. This was a bitter reversal of 50 years of consistent U.S. policy at the U.N and is more about a bitter, personal vendetta against his arch nemesis – Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu - rather than a reasoned decision based on logic around the “settlement issue”. In addition, this is Obama’s “attempt” to try to complicate President-elect Trump’s efforts to try to resolve the conflict between the Palestinians and the Israelis.

To Israel and Israel’s supporters, the “settlement issue” is a bogus false flag to continue the conflict. BEFORE the 1967 war, when the entire West Bank was in Jordanian hands, the Arabs waged a war of attrition to destroy Israel. The settlements were not the issue then because they didn’t exist. Israel’s existence was the issue. Israel, under PM Olmert, even offered the Palestinians 99% of the land that they were asking for - and Arafat refused. Why? Because their whole political existence is about resistance rather than building a real country. PM Netanyahu stopped building in the West Bank for 12 months with the understanding that negotiating would start once the 12-month clock started ticking. The Palestinians refused to negotiate. The Palestinians are a welfare entity and peace means they would have to work and build rather than destroy and glow in their well-cultivated image of “victimhood”.

To Israel and Israel’s supporters, the U.N. is a failed institution that has clearly demonstrated an anti-Israel (anti-Semitic) bias against Israel – while ignoring the atrocities and crimes against humanity committed by those who conspire against Israel in the U.N.. It is not surprising that 97% of all the total U.N. resolutions over the past 10 years have been anti-Israel – not Ukraine or Syria or any of the other areas where brutal wars are taking place. Venezuela, Angola, Iraq, Iran, Angola and Cuba are just a few of the brutal banana republics that have been elected as rotating members of the Security Council. The U.N. has become a political whip for the non-aligned countries and Muslim/Arab nations. If the U.N. Security Council did not exist, and the USA had the same singular vote as Ghana – there is no doubt that the U.N. would be one-sided institution against the USA - just like it is now against Israel. What has the U.N. accomplished in stopping the 5 year war in Syria that has killed over 1 million people and made tens of millions refugees? Nothing. How many resolutions condemning a particular participant in the Syrian war? None.

It is worth noting that the Christian population in the Mideast has shrunk in every Mideast country because of state led anti-Christian persecution and incitement – except one – Israel. Why? Because Israel respects all religions. You won’t see the U.N. or President Obama mention the slaughter of Christians at the hands of brutal Muslim countries because that “fact” doesn’t fit their narrative that Israel is the problem.

While the U.S. was not an official member of the group that presented the resolution to the Security Council, it is well known that the White House conspired with France and the Palestinians to orchestrate this cowardly act when Obama had no political risk because he is days away from leaving office. This last act of President Obama will just make peace with the Palestinians that much harder to accomplish because it made it perfectly clear to the Israelis, and Israel’s supporters that Israel can only rely on itself and can never “rely” on “security guarantees” from the USA or the U.N.. It also has emboldened the Palestinians to “think” they can accomplish their goal by NOT negotiating with Israel. Will the U.N. resolution lead to more calls for a boycott or divestment from Israel? Maybe, but Israel has hundreds of thousands of patents that the world needs, and has recently opened dialogue with Sunni Arab countries and many African countries that realize how Israel is an indispensible, positive influence in that region of the world. Israel’s supporters around the world will work tirelessly to make sure Israel’s economy and military stay strong and grow stronger, despite this stab in the back by President Obama.

In closing, this last gasp of Obama’s presidency – a “low-brow” personal vendetta -makes a fitting bookend to the Nobel Peace Prize he won BEFORE he took office. History will not treat well the President whose “failed red-line” in Syria caused over a million people to die needlessly.

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The American people see through the Democratic attempt to discredit Trump.

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