The United Nations swears, in its charter, to “maintain international peace and security” and “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.”
So why has it sided with Hamas against Israel?
The office of the body’s High Commissioner on Human Rights took to X this week to indirectly accuse the Jewish state of war crimes.
Ever since Hamas began the conflict with its barbaric mass rape, slaughter and kidnapping of Israeli civilians, the United Nations has demanded a ceasefire — i.e., Israel unilaterally stops attacking in exchange for zero concessions from Hamas.
The General Assembly rejected a resolution to condemn Hamas for the savage attacks; indeed Secretary-General Antonio Guterres justified the terror atrocities that killed 1,400 by saying they “did not happen in a vacuum.”
This is nothing new.
The UN specializes in condemning the Jewish state.
In some cases for defending itself from Palestinian terror; in others — such as its notorious 1975 “Zionism is racism” General Assembly resolution — merely for existing.
No surprise: From its founding, the United Nations has aided dictators and human-rights abusers globally through a pretense that they are to be listened to as seriously as (if not more seriously than) democrats.
In its utter failure to achieve its goals, the world body resembles its inept precursor the League of Nations.
But the League failed through weakness, whereas the United Nations actively works to harm the world.
Consider morally wretched absurdities like Nikita Krushchev banging his shoe in outrage when another delegate pointed out how his USSR was tyrannizing Eastern Europe.
Or the recent appointment of Iran — where women are beaten to death by government-sanctioned brute squads for failing to cover their hair — to chair a body within the Human Rights Council.
Two examples from an endless list.
If the United Nations wanted peace, it would not back Hamas.
Remember, Hamas is still — along with Hezbollah and the Houthis — launching rockets at Israeli civilians.
A Hamas rocket struck an Israeli kindergarten Friday.
Where are the thunderous calls for that to stop?
Imagine a world where the United Nations threatened to cut off aid to Hamas unless it released the hostages it’s holding.
They would walk free the next day.
Sadly, that’s beyond imagining. The body is institutionally anti-Israel, anti-democracy and anti-America.
It may be time, in other words, for the United States — the largest single UN funder — to turn off the tap absent a dramatic change.
No more pretense that Hamas and Israel are morally equivalent, that America is Iran’s mirror image — or that free, democratic nations must kowtow to the butchers and jailers of the world.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
