Anti-Israel Resolution Makes U.N. Look ‘Foolish,’ Mideast Expert Says

The rapid condemnation of Israel by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), made without a full knowledge of the facts, makes the international body look “ridiculous,” says a leading Middle East expert.

“It makes the United Nations look ridiculous when it comes to solving world problems,” Michael Rubin, a Middle East scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, told CNSNews.com. “After all, the United Nations reacted much more swiftly and with much more fervor to this than they did with regard to the North Korean sinking of the South Korean boat, which could precipitate a war that could kill millions.”

North Korea attacked and sank the South Korean naval vessel Cheonan on March 26, sparking the South to cut off all ties to its northern neighbor. In response, North Korea, a Communist dictatorship, threatened that any further confrontations could lead to war, pointing to its stockpile of nuclear weapons.

Rubin said that the UNSC "has become its own parody” in moving so swiftly to condemn Israel but not moving at all to condemn North Korea.

The UNSC statement, issued May 31, “condemns” Israel’s actions in boarding a fleet carrying pro-Hamas activists, an operation in which activists aboard one of the vessels attacked Israeli sailors who had boarded the boat. Ten of the so-called activists were killed when the Israeli sailors returned fire in what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called self-defense.

However, the UNSC condemnation repeatedly admits that the Security Council has no “independent information” and no idea as to the actual chain of events.

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