In the best of years, General Assembly gatherings at the United Nations are good only for New York restaurants, hotels, prostitutes and comedians with an eye for absurdity.
This year’s edition of the circus promises to be especially rich in hypocrisy, with murderous autocrats and petty potentates lining up to take even more than the usual number of shots at Israel.
With the pooh-bahs jubilant that Israel is growing more isolated diplomatically, count on the air in Turtle Bay to reek with the stench of antisemitism even before the 80th session officially opens on Sept. 9.
Hatred for the lone Jewish nation will be so thick, it will feel like a rally for New York’s leading mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani, who won’t quit his attachment to BDS and the chant of “globalize the intifada.”
He’ll have plenty of company in the coming weeks, giving city voters a glimpse of the hatred he would take with him to City Hall if we are foolish enough to elect him.
Meanwhile, many New Yorkers will experience the déjà vu feeling of — a throwback to the years from 1975 until 1991, a shameful era when the UN officially declared that “Zionism is a form of racism.”
The resolution was revoked but the hateful sentiment lives on in too many poisoned minds around the world.
Keeping faith with hate, a dominant theme this year will be “the starvation narrative” in Gaza, which holds that Israel is committing genocide against the Arab civilian population.
Never mind that the vast majority of aid trucks Israel allows into the enclave are stolen by Hamas, which takes most of the food for itself and sells the rest on the black market.
Trucks intercepted
As I recently noted, a UN report concluded “that between May 19 and Aug. 5, more than 2,600 trucks carrying humanitarian aid crossed from Israel into Gaza.”
But only 300 of these trucks reached their intended destinations in Gaza, with the rest “intercepted and looted along their delivery routes.”
True to its cowardly nature, the UN report did not distinguish between the parties responsible for the thefts, noting only that the aid was stolen by “either armed actors or hungry people.”
“Armed actors” is a euphemism for Hamas, but the UN is too cowardly to say the name.
If Gazans are starving, the UN should at least have the decency to identify the guilty party.
Fat chance, as officials and their agencies in Gaza tend to see Hamas thugs as freedom fighters instead of what they are: sadistic terrorists.
Besides, it’s so much easier and safer to blame the Jews for everything.
In a better world, that approach would be deemed outrageously repulsive as the days count down to October 7th, the second anniversary of the Hamas terror invasion and the slaughter of 1,200 Israelis, most of them civilians, including women and children.
That Hamas continues to hold at many as 20 living hostages and numerous corpses would result in a unanimous condemnation if the diplomats made even a halfhearted effort to meet their lofty ideals.
On the contrary, the bloodiest single day for Jews since the Holocaust has shockingly morphed into growing support for the creation of a Palestinian state and the topic is scheduled to be a prime focus of this year’s session.
The two-state delusion movement has been boosted by three stooges– — the heads of France, Canada and Great Britain.
One-sided ‘peace’
France’s Emmanuel Macron, Canada’s Mark Carney and London the UK’s Keir Starmer are the first of America’s Western allies to wave the white flag, with Britain going so far as to say that Israel must commit to “a long-term sustainable peace.”
No similar demand is made of the Palestinians.
To put all the responsibility on Israel is ridiculous, given that Hamas leaders vow that they will repeat the horrors of Oct. 7th “again and again.”
So how can Israel commit to a lasting peace with an enemy that vows to destroy it?
Thanks to God that Winston Churchill, FDR and Charles De Gaulle did not follow the appeasement crowd when Hitler was on the march.
Imagine if FDR had demanded that France and the UK must first commit to “a long-term sustainable peace” against Germany before the US entered the war in Europe.
Tragically, the modern leaders of a tired, declining Europe have fallen for the lie that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups “really want peace.”
As such, it’s impossible to avoid the conclusion that Starmer and Macron are running scared of their nations’ large and loud Muslim immigrant populations.
It’s mind-boggling that they haven’t grasped a basic fact of modern life: Israel is like the canary in the coal mine.
It’s enemies are the West’s enemies, too.
But if Starmer and Macron won’t stand up for Israel, they shouldn’t count on anyone standing up for them when it’s their turn in the jihadists’ barrel.
Thankfully, President Trump isn’t buying their craven bull, saying that the idea of declaring a Palestinian state now is effectively “rewarding” Hamas for its evil acts.
“We’re not in that camp,” he added, in what may be the shortest summation ever of a wise national policy.
To underscore the point and deliver a practical impact, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Friday that top Palestinian officials would not be getting the usual visas to enter the U.S, meaning they will not be able to attend the UN hate-fest.
Rubio’s office said the ban applies to leaders of the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization who are not based at the U.N.
Among the 80 or so people blocked is Mahmoud Abbas, who has been president of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority since 2005.
In plain English, that means he is now in his 20th year of a four-year term.
‘Tension, escalation’
In reaction to Rubio, the Abbas camp reverted to its evergreen stance, which is to threaten violence every time it doesn’t get
its way.
“This decision will only increase tension and escalation,” a spokesman told the AP Saturday.
But Rubio’s aides said he aims to hold Abbas and others “accountable for not complying with their commitments, and for undermining the prospects for peace.”
He also turned up the heat by adding the demand that they “consistently repudiate terrorism,” including the Oct. 7th, 2023, attack and “end incitement to terrorism in education.”
Those are the right tests, but the reality is that asking any Palestinian leader, including those who are not members of Hamas, to give up talk of terrorism is like asking them to give up breathing.
Even for the suit-and-tie Abbas types, making threats against Israel is a job requirement.
Otherwise, they fear with some justification, Hamas and groups like it will turn their guns on those it deems insufficiently committed to destroying Israel.
With neighbors like that, the demand that Israel guarantee peace is demanding that it sign its own death warrant.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
