Perhaps not. I do believe there have been other UN condemnation (out of the multitude) of Israel that the US has not blocked – though I haven’t got the data here. Personally and preliminary I have nothing against censuring Israel for these acts though I would have thought it more prudent to have waited for the results of the investigations to clock in (remembering the UN condemnation of the “Basque Madrid bombings” – without looking it up I’d bet even money on the UN also condemning Israel for the “Jenin massacres/genocide”). However for such condemnation to carry any moral weight the UN absolutely must be seen to be impartial. The record does not show it to be. Thus, unfortunately they can be ignored by Israel with moral impunity.
The UN is made up of voting members. It is not a single entity which is what you’d think from reading you talking about it.
The Madrid resolution was pushed through by Spain, UK and US so as to try to help bolster the then government of Spain by backing their bullshit claim that it was ETA and not AQ.
I don’t care if it was pushed through by the Hara Khrisna, it was still wrong. And without going into your political analysis, I think we can both agree that it was wrong no matter who and for whatever reason it got pushed through. Simply because it was in fact wrong. By censuring Israel before the facts have been verified the UN risks making an ass of itself yet again – and unfairly condemning Israel (if such a thing is possible in the eyes of the UN majority).
My main point is it should make the countries that sponsored and supported the resolution look silly if in fact the resolution is but you bang on about “The UN” as if government representatives had nothing to do with it and it’s just this UN cabal that is telling governments what to do.
The UN is only the forum countries use. It is only as good/bad and useful/useless as it’s members.
Rune, the fact that the US usually vetoes anti-Israeli resolutions (but in this case did not), and that the Bush administration then went on to strongly criticize the actions, ought to tell you something.