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August 27, 2003

The U.N. Has Promoted Terrorism - and Now is on the Receiving End of it.

An excellent article today by Alan Dershowitz (emphasis added):

Terror Stings Its Pal, the U.N.

The world body has fed a monster that now threatens it and everyone else.

...For more than a quarter of a century, the U.N. has actively encouraged terrorism by rewarding its primary practitioners, legitimating it as a tactic, condemning its victims when they try to defend themselves and describing the murderers of innocent children as “freedom fighters.” No organization in the world today has accorded so much legitimacy to terrorism as has the U.N.

Consider the following:

There are numerous occupied peoples around the world seeking statehood or national liberation, including the Tibetans, Kurds, Turkish Armenians and Palestinians. Only one of these groups has received official recognition by the U.N., including observer status and invitations to speak and participate in committee work. That group is the one that invented and perfected modern international terrorism namely, the Palestinians.

These rewards were first bestowed in the 1970s when the Palestine Liberation Organization was unabashedly committed to terrorism. In fact, Chairman Yasser Arafat was invited to speak to the U.N. General Assembly in 1974 at a time when his organization was seeking to destroy a member-state of the U.N. by terrorism.

By rewarding Arafat and the PLO for such behavior, the U.N. made it clear that the best way to ensure that your cause is leapfrogged ahead of others is to adopt terrorism as your primary means of protest. The Tibetans, whose land has been occupied more brutally and for a longer period than the Palestinians, but who have never practiced terrorism, cannot even receive a hearing from the U.N.

The U.N. has for years refused to condemn terrorism unequivocally, while encouraging and upholding “the legitimacy of the struggle for national liberation movements” against “occupation” in other words, the use of terrorism against innocent civilians to resist occupation. This has sent the message to aggrieved groups that terrorism is legitimate.

The U.N. has allowed Palestinian terrorists to use U.N.-sponsored “refugee camps” like Jenin as terrorist bases. This has sent the message to the world that the U.N. closes its eyes to terrorism.

The U.N. has repeatedly condemned efforts by Israel to prevent and respond to terrorism. For example, the Security Council condemned Israel for isolating Arafat in the West Bank last year, even after it was proved that Arafat remained complicit in acts of terrorism.

This has sent the message to the victims of terrorism that if they fight back they risk sanctions.

...Now the chickens have come home to roost. Some Iraqis, who feel that they are now occupied, have taken the U.N.’s message to heart and are engaged in a “national liberation movement” of the kind long praised by the U.N. and are using the tactics rewarded by the U.N. against that very organization.

Now that the victims of “national liberation terrorism” are U.N. employees instead of Jewish babies, maybe the U.N. will finally come to its senses and understand that by legitimating and rewarding terrorism, they have created a Frankenstein monster that can be turned against any nation, organization or group. Unless there is a change, no one will be safe from this U.N.-created, -fed and -rewarded monster that threatens the entire world.

Great stuff. Read the whole thing.