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Every Year the UN Passes a Series of Resolutions Against Israel. Nobody Cares

(Fox News) Yair Lapid - In 2021, while I was serving as Israel's foreign minister, the UN General Assembly passed a series of resolutions against Israel. A year later, in 2022, when I was prime minister, the General Assembly passed yet another series of resolutions against Israel. Nobody cared. The fact that the UN meets and votes against Israel is like rain in London: that's just what it does. They gather, deliver the same speech as last year, vote the same way as last year, and then head to dinner. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, of the UN's 193 member states, only 25 are "full democracies," with another 46 "flawed democracies." In other words, in every vote, in every resolution, non-democracies hold an automatic majority. And they use it without the slightest qualm. That's how Iran sat on the UN Commission on the Status of Women in 2022, as Mahsa Amini was murdered. Syria chaired the Conference on Disarmament in 2018 while gassing its own citizens. North Korea presided over the same disarmament conference in 2022 while openly brandishing nuclear weapons. The UN's treatment of Israel is the diplomatic equivalent of a psychotic episode. Israel makes up 0.1% of the world's population, yet accounts for more than 60% of the UN's condemnatory resolutions in the past decade. The total expenditure of the UN system tops $70 billion. Most of that money comes from the U.S. and the EU. It isn't being used to advance "the inherent dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family, as the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world," as the UN charter promises. The writer is leader of the Opposition in Israel's Knesset.
2025-09-14 00:00:00
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