Islamic terrorists and the UN: A record of evil 

By Tom DeWeese
web posted November 5, 2001

Is there anyone left who doubts that the United Nations has long
been and continues to be a hotbed of Islamic militancy? Is there
anyone left who seriously thinks that the UN can serve in any
useful capacity to bring about peace as Osama bin Laden and his
followers square off to fight "the Christian crusade" against Islam,
led, he says by President Bush?

In September the United States withdraw its representatives at a
United Nations conference on bigotry held in Durban, South
Africa. It was obvious to the whole world that it was nothing
more than a platform for the most virulent bigotry against Jews,
along with one demanding that the United States pay
"reparations" to its Black community, 136 years after the end of
the Civil War that freed slaves. The US representatives left on
September 3rd. Eight days later, the World Trade Center was
destroyed and the Pentagon suffered a grievous attack.

In October, Syria, one of seven nations our government
designates as a state sponsor of terrorism, was elected as a non-
permanent member of the UN Security Council. Among the
groups headquartered in Damascus, Syria today are Amad
Jibril's Popular front for the Liberation of Palestine's general
command, the Palestine Islamic Jihad, Abu Musa's Fatah-the-
Intifada, and George Habash's Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine.

In the General Assembly, Syria's elevation to the Security
Council received 160 votes from the 178 nations voting. This is
the United Nations at work!

The United Nation's record of "peacekeeping" is a wretched
failure. It may take the credit, but it has been the military might of
the United States that has imposed peace where it has ceased to
exist. The most recent example was the Persian Gulf war. An
earlier one was the Korean "police action", again fought by
America that has had to maintain troops on the 38th parallel ever
since the 1950's to deter Communist North Korea.

In every way possible, the United Nations has tried to
accommodate Middle Eastern nations "win" the war they have
waged ceaselessly against another Member State, Israel. The
notion of "peacekeeping" was tried out in 1950's and its first test
came in the Sinai Peninsula. Israel, in 1957, withdrew from the
Sinai, having been promised that UN troops would insure it was
demilitarized and its neighboring straits would be kept open to
Israeli shipping. A decade later, in May 1967, the UN Secretary
General immediately complied with Egyptian president Gamal
Nasser's demand that it leave. Within days, Egypt attacked
Israel.

In one United Nations resolution after another, the UN has
condemned Israel's right to defend itself against its enemies from
within and beyond its borders. As early as November 29, 1947,
it was trying to divide Israel into two states. A year later in 1948,
after the first Arab-Israeli war, condemned Israel for the
"dispossession" of Arabs who fled the conflict, never mentioned
the thousands of Jews in Arab states who also fled, this time to
Israel to save their lives.

In 1974, the United Nations hosted a visit from Yasir Arafat, the
chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, who
addressed the General Assembly wearing a gun!

Never making any judgement between aggressor and victim, the
United Nations stood by while 250,000 died in Bosnia and 900,
000 died in Rwanda. The current Secretary General, Kofi
Annan, who formerly was the UN director of the Rwandan
peacekeeping mission, praised Saddam Hussein, Iraq's dictator,
as a reasonable, wise leader. He "negotiated" an end to United
Nation's efforts to find and destroy weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq. This is the same man and the same organization that just
won the Nobel Prize for Peace!

Time and again, the UN has demonstrated that it isn't merely
irrelevant, it is a deterrent to any real peace in the world.

The American Policy Center is sponsoring a program by which
every city and town in America can declare itself "a UN-Free
Zone." If it takes a city-by-city, town-by-town effort to free this
nation from the United Nations, let's get on with it!

The United States and the whole world turned a corner in history
on September 11, 200l. Remember, it was the World Trade
Center that was destroyed by Islamic militants. The United
Nations is home to these enemies of mankind.

It is time to end US support for this evil institution. Time to make
America a UN-Free Zone.

Tom DeWeese is the president of the American Policy Center, a
grassroots, activist think tank headquartered in Warren, Virginia.
It maintains an Internet site at www.americanpolicy.org where
you can secure a package of information to make your
community a UN-Free Zone.
(c) Tom DeWeese, 200l All rights reserved.

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