Terror Stings Its Pal, the U.N.

Abu Afak, Sonntag, 31. August 2003, 03:11 (vor 7760 Tagen)

Terror Stings Its Pal, the U.N.
By Alan M. Dershowitz
Los Angeles Times | August 28, 2003


Several days ago I received a phone call from a
Brazilian journalist who asked me to respond to
the charge being made in her home country that
Israel was at least indirectly to blame for the
deadly truck bombing of the United Nations
headquarters in Baghdad that killed, among others,
a prominent Brazilian diplomat, Sergio Vieira de
Mello.

I was not surprised at the question, considering
its source. Among many South Americans, as among
many Eastern Europeans, the knee-jerk response to
nearly every evil is "blame it on the Jews." For
example, Cardinal Oscar Andres Rodriguez
Meridiaga, the archbishop of Tegucigalpa,
Honduras, has blamed the "Jewish media" for the
scandal involving Catholic priests having sex with
young parishioners.

But the question got me to thinking: Who does
share the blame with the terrorists themselves for
the horrific explosion that killed and injured so
many innocent people? Although the primary culprit
is clearly the terrorist group that planned and
executed the mass murder, the secondary culprit is
the U.N. itself.

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. ....´"

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