U.S. shields Israel at the U.N. — when is enough, enough?

The United Nations is a useless organisation, controlled by the USA. Some of its earliest actions, were to allow the occupation and genocide (Nakba) in Palestine, by Zionists. Then under the UN Flag, the invasion of Korea, to support a corrupt regime!

لماذا غزة؟ Why Gaza?

Thank you to Michael Lynk for highlighting the U.S. role in shielding Israel from censure or criticism at the United Nations in his recent piece in DAWN.

Americans should pay attention. Lynk is the former United Nations Special Rapporteur for human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, from 2016 to 2022. He taught in the Faculty of Law at Western University in Ontario from 1999 to 2022. He is, most recently, the co-author of “Protecting Human Rights in Occupied Palestine: Working Through the United Nations,” with Richard Falk and John Dugard.

The U.S. hypocrisy is laid bare with just a few facts in Lynk’s article.

Since 1973, the United States has cast 81 vetoes at the U.N. Security Council, far more than any other permanent member; Russia and the former Soviet Union is in second place with 38 vetoes during that time period. More than half of these…

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