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(WJD) The United Nations has rarely been a friend to Israel or the Jewish people, but this weekend proved a welcome exception. At long last, the organization's Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has condemned the Iranian regime for its genocidal and racist anti-Israel rhetoric.
“The secretary-general is dismayed by the remarks threatening Israel’s existence attributed over the last two days to the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Khamenei] and the president of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the UN press office said, and he “condemns these offensive and inflammatory statements.”
The Secretary General's remarks came after Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unleashed another of his regular psychotic rants, in which he referred to Israel as an "insult to humanity" and a cancer. He further pledged to annihilate all "Zionists" in the Middle East.
The U.N. has long been seen as unremittingly hostile to Israel and its interests. With a large number of Arab and Muslim member states, which further multiplies its power through alliances with other Third World nations and the threat of the oil weapon, the U.N. has been a forum for hatred and unabashed anti-Israel racism since at least the early 1970s.
Today's statement, however, may indicate that the Iranian regime has finally gone too far, and that the international community is facing up to the fact that Ahmadinejad's genocidal rhetoric both violates international law and makes an Israeli military strike on Iran more likely.
This may also indicate that the recent media coverage regarding a possible Israeli strike is having an effect. The international community is now genuinely scared that Israeli will act unilaterally, and may now be trying to assuage Israeli fears by condemning Iran.
