The UN Takes Action In The Middle East!

The slaughter in Syria, the chaos in Libya, the crisis in Egypt....all this finally seems to have moved the UN to take some significant action in the region.

Or maybe it was this one horrific event:

Syrian government warplanes have been bombing the Palestinian Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria recent days, killing (in the words of a leading Palestinian) “far more Palestinians than Israel killed during the recent conflict in Gaza”. Syrian warplanes also fired into a mosque used by Palestinians in Syria. Thousands of Palestinians have been forced to flee for their lives this week from Syrian forces.


So how did the UN respond?

By passing nine resolutions condemning...Israel.  In one day (Tuesday 12/18).  Raising the 2012 total  of nation-specific resolutions involving Israel to 22.  Out of a worldwide total of...26.

All nine resolutions are detailed at the link; many of them are laughable.  Commentary singles out one for particular mockery:

One resolution, for instance, slams Israel’s 1981 annexation of the “occupied Syrian Golan” and demands that Israel “rescind forthwith its decision.” Given what’s happening across the border in Syria, where the ongoing civil war has killed over 44,000 people and created over 500,000 refugees, I suspect most of the 20,000 Syrian Druze on the Golan are thanking their lucky stars to be living safely under Israel’s “occupation.” But you needn’t take my word for it: According to the Hebrew daily Maariv, whose report was subsequently picked up the Winnipeg Jewish Review, Israeli government statistics show that the number of Golan Druze applying for Israeli citizenship (for which the annexation made them eligible) has risen by hundreds of percent since the Syrian civil war erupted, after 30 years in which very few did so.

“More and more people comprehend that this [Israel] is a well-managed country and it’s possible to live and raise children here,” one Druze who acquired Israeli citizenship explained. “In Syria there is mass murder, and if [the Druze are] under Syrian control they would likely be turned into the victims of these atrocities. People see murdered children and refugees fleeing to Jordan and Turkey, lacking everything, and ask themselves: Where do I want to raise my children. The answer is clear–in Israel and not Syria.”


Yeah, but in Israel, they'd be living as free men and women, as opposed to being ruled by a despot.  And who rules the UN, after all?

Just see whom they condemn, and who gets a pass...