VIVA "UNITED DEMOCRATIC NATIONS"! UNITED NATIONS R.I.P., IMAO

And looking around I can't help thinking that if Churchill had to face the obstruction and opposition that Bush now faces, that we probably wouldn't have won the war. Bernard Lewis, 9/11/06 Hudson Institute Watch the video of his compelling speech below. Download BernardLewis91106.wav

Mr. Lewis, the most influential postwar historian of Islam and the Middle East., served in the British Army in the Royal Armoured Corps and Intelligence Corps and observed;

"I had no doubt we would triumph. I don't have that confidence now."

I spent the day at the Hudson Institute Symposium "THE UN AND BEYOND: UNITED DEMOCRATIC NATIONS", listening to some of the best minds explore, debate, recount, and deservedly excoriate the history of UN failures. A small but select group attended to hear what Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Anne Bayefsky (bless her soul, the architect behind this symposium), Walid Phares, Michael Krauss, Natan Sharansky, John Bolton, Bill Bennett, Claudia Rosett, Jed Babbin, Bernard Lewis and esteemed players on the world stage speak to the future of America's involvement and considerable financial support of the UN.

It was a once in a lifetime, let me tell you.

Looking around I saw the rapt faces of Monica Crowley, Georgette Mosbacher, Larry Kadish, Cliff Kincaid, Joseph Farah, Norman Podhoretz and his lovely wife, Midge Decter. What a waste of brilliant thought.

Bayefsky opened up the symposium outlined the historical, the historical failures, too numerous to outline here of UN incompetence, corruption and complicity. Michael Krauss outlined point by point the UN failure in Bosnia, Somalia, Sierra Leone, the genocide in Darfur etc and heaped contempt on the UN cowardly, bureaucratic peacekeepers.

Five years after 9/11 the UN is still unable to define terrorism.

Today Bayefsky wrote this editorial here at NY Sun;

Just last Friday the U.N. gave the world its answer to 9/11. The General Assembly adopted its first-ever "Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy." The title is grand. The substance was not: it called for the implemention of a General Assembly resolution from 1991, which draws a distinction between terrorism and the "legitimacy of the struggle of national liberation movements." The document was also telling for what it omitted: a definition of terrorism, a reference to state sponsorship of terrorism and a call to sanction states that harbor and assist terrorists. Worst of all it began, not with defeat of terrorists, but with "measures to address conditions conducive to the spread of terrorism, which it describes as "prevent[ing] the defamation of religions, religious values, beliefs and cultures," "eradicate[ing] poverty" and reducing youth unemployment.

What does such a strategy do for winning the war? It throws sand in the eyes of the troops on the front lines and renders the goalposts a mirage. More here

Draft Resolution on the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy

I thought I had a good idea of how debased that organization was. I was wrong. From the outset the UN set out to fail. They have failed the tortured, the oppressed, the poor, in incalculable ways. The graft and corruption is endemic to the institution. Senator Norm Coleman referred to the UN as a "jobs program for many countries." Those that contribute little or nothing have enormous say.

9,000 mandates. The UN has 9,000 mandates and accomplishes little.

The premise of the discussion was the question of whether the UN be could reformed and except  the lone voices, the consensus from the best minds was no. The alternative? A different organization. "The United Democratic Nations," an organization of free nations. Shared values. This seems to be one of the malignancies of the UN. How can democracies and dictatorships co-exist in a world body successfully. They can't. And so immediately the organization is/was destined to fail.

My only complaint was the glaring omission from this 12 hour symposium of the continuing islamization of the United Nations as well documented and investigated by the intrepid David Littman here, here and here.

Hirsi Ali, Walid Phares, Michael Krauss. Phares, "Jihad divides the world"

Ayaan Hirsi Ali shares her thoughts on the UN;
"The United Nations has proved to be incompetent and incapable of solving conflicts"

"The United Nations has been worse than ineffective. It has been outright complicit. ...... Often threw inaction, sometimes through neglect and somtimes through willful nuetrality.

Joseph Farah, World Net Daily...........loved talking to him. Talk about seeing things the same way.

Bayefsky explained that the multi billion dollar UN system was once largely closed to NGOs (non governmental organizations) as the private playing fields of member states. But NGOs have now found their way into the most intimate recesses of the UN. Kofi and member states have found it extremely useful to operate through these "partners" or proxies. Bayefsky speaks of these orgs as GONGOS to discredit "government sponsored non-gorvermental agencies."

But there is a much darker side to the UN-NGO nexus than the rise of these obvious interlopers in the NGO circles. it is the large number of NGOs that have been empowered by UN-accreditation to spread anti-semitism, hate, and encourage terrorism from a UN platform. The call for boycotts and sanctions against Israel is a central plank of this campaign.

Claudia Rosett and Cliff Kincaid from Accuracy in Media
Claudia Rosett and Cliff Kincaid, Accuracy in Media

The most powerful remarks came from the journalist closest to the inside machinations of the UN, Claudia Rosett. Rosett is inside the asylum. The UN does not "distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, good and bad. And the enemy is getting worse."

The UN charter is a big lie and things built on big lies  tend to work to extremely damaging effects.

The charter proposes Power without Law. There is no higher authority. It is a law of its own.

" The UN is not fixable"

How does Rosett explain UN reform? First, "silence, then investigation, then reform aka cover up, then silence."

"The UN is "POWER WITHOUT LAW." "It operates outside the law. The law of its own recipe .......brought us Animal farm.

It is corrupt by its very nature........... And it's a universe unto itself."

Senator Coburn

Natan Sharansky, former Soviet politcal prisoner was asked what was motivating Human Rights Watch in its one-sided condemnations of Israel;

"Human Rights Watch was born as Helsinki Watch," Mr. Sharansky said. "We were arrested for this." He mentioned the founding chairman of Human Rights Watch, Robert Bernstein. "Then it had clear moral standards," Mr. Sharansky said. But lately, after Mr. Bernstein's retirement as chairman, the organization has taken a turn in the wrong direction. "I spoke with the new head," Mr. Sharansky said. "There is a clear lack of moral criteria."

Mr. Sharansky spoke of Human Rights Watch's condemnation of Israel for deliberately targeting Lebanese civilians — "slaughter," Human Rights Watch's executive director, Kenneth Roth, called it in a letter to the editor of the New York Sun. The Israeli politician said that Hezbollah terrorists were using "all Southern Lebanon as one big human shield." In the face of such a Hezbollah atrocity, in this battle, Human Rights Watch "accuses Israel of war crimes."

Mr. Sharansky is correct to call this a "very big problem." It extends beyond Israel to Human Rights Watch's approach to the wider war on terror. Mr. Roth marked the fifth anniversary of September 11 by issuing a statement denouncing not the terror-sponsors in Tehran and Damascus but rather the Bush administration, which according to Mr. Roth is responsible for America's "loss of the moral high ground." Mr. Roth wrote that the "The Bush administration still subscribes to the view that it is engaged in a ‘global' war," a theory Mr. Roth wrote "threatens the basic rights of us all."

Truth is — as Mr. Sharansky recognizes — it is not America or Israel that has lost the moral high ground in the war on Islamic fascists, but Human Rights Watch itself that has lost its moral bearings. A sad fate to befall an organization for whose founding ideals Mr. Sharansky spent so many years in the gulag archipelago. More at the NY  Sun

Jed Babbin, Josh Muravchik, Michel Gurfinkiel. Interesting contretemps between these guys. Watch Babbin in this video

 

 

The irrepressible Bill Bennett

Bernard Lewis made a remarkable speech. Stunning.

Karit Goldwasser (with Dershowitz-oyish), the wife of the kidnapped soldier Ehud Goldwasser. The UN could have, should have is obligated to bring him home safely. So says Resolution 1701. She spoke ....... it is heartbreaking. Olmert sold his people out.

Senator Coleman thought the oil for food scandal would be a mirror in the face of the UN and yet nothing has been accomplished since the conclusion of the permanent subcommittee. Despite the UN having signed on to the UN reform document.

The original human rights was so outrageous, so egregious it seemed like low hanging fruit. Change that, reform that. That should have been easy. But the UN has tried to make this a left right issue. Blaming the United States and in the case of Malloch Brown, even FOX NEWS.

The graphs demonstrate just how fed up the American people are. This should be a major campaign issue. Despite a left wing, UN sympathizing media, the outrageous abuse and corruption have thoroughly disgusted the American people.

In a Frank Luntz poll commissioned by the Hudson Institute, a majority of respondents expressed doubts about the effectiveness of the United Nations and embraced scenarios under which the organization would be "scrapped altogether." Luntz characterized the results as showing that Americans are "one scandal away from washing their hands" of the U.N. and that the issue could tip a future presidential election. More here

And the UN still can't define terrorism. Pathetic.

Despite traitor Chaffee Senator Coleman is confident that Amabassador Bolton will be confirmed before the end of the year.

Congress must use our financial leverage in the UN to reform the UN. Must.

The world has changed a great deal from the time of the United Nations birth in 1945, and so has the United Nations. Sixty years ago democracies, both nascent and well established, comprised the majority of the founding nations of the UN. The members of the General Assembly were strategically aligned primarily along what would become the lines of the Cold War. America was confident that the UN would be an organization which would work in tandem with American national interests in promoting the welfare of humankind and the basic rights of every human spirit.

We could not have been more wrong.  Because with 20 years, global politics and the UN has been wildly altered. By the mid 60s, UN membership had more than doubled and the majority of members were not democratic. Thugs calling the shots.

This post is a work in progress. I will be posting all of the audio on these speeches.

UPDATE: Here's the audio. Listen to them all, at your leisure of course. Forgive me, Krauss audio did not make it. And he rcoked.

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The U.N.'s top human rights body for six decades, the Commission on Human Rights, was charged with identifying and responding to human rights abuse. During that time, 30% of all its resolutions condemning a specific state for human rights violations were directed at Israel, while not one resolution was adopted condemning states like China, Syria, or Zimbabwe. In recent years, Libya served as Chair. In the name of enhanced credibility, the Commission was replaced this past spring by a Human Rights Council. Its members include Cuba, China, and Saudi Arabia. Since June, the Council has adopted three resolutions and held two special sessions critical of human rights violations in specific states. Now 100% of them are on Israel. In the meantime, thousands die in killing fields and deserts and torture chambers around the world. What does this U.N. game plan do for winning the war? It defines the enemy as the Jew.

So wrote  Anne Bayefsky

Question and Answer VLOG with Walid Phares, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, And Michael Krauss

 

UPDATE: The most remarkable, important statement to come out of that gathering is Bernard Lewis' closing statement on the current worldwide conflict;

The idea that democracy is totally alien and impossible for them [Arab nations] is demonstrably absurd in historical terms.
Now it's not easy. It's a long, it's a slow, it's a difficult process. But it's one we must make.
I will sum up what I have to say in one sentence;
EITHER WE FREE THEM OR THEY WILL DESTROY US.

UPDATE: Daniel Freedman of the New York Sun was equally impressed by Lewis' proclamation;

"Hitler would have won under these conditions," Mr. Lewis said, citing America's inability to clearly define the war on terror and exactly who its enemy is. The professor, whose vision of the future of the Middle East and knowledge of Islam has guided President Bush's foreign policy, also cited as challenges the multilateralism that hamstrings America's ability to fight the war and the strong political opposition to policies designed to defeat the enemy, such as detaining terrorists without trial.

During the darkest days of the fight against Nazism, Mr. Lewis said, he "had no doubt that in the end we would triumph." He does not "have that certitude now," he said.

Mr. Lewis told the center-right think tank's conference on the United Nations that he agrees with a former communist dissident and current Israeli parliamentarian, Natan Sharansky, that the only real solution to defeating radical Islam is to bring freedom to the Middle East. Either "we free them or they destroy us," Mr. Lewis said.

The contention, especially popular in diplomatic circles, that Arabs aren't suited to democracy and that the West's best hope lies with friendly tyrants shows an ignorance of the Arabs' past and contempt for their present and future, and is "demonstrably absurd in historical terms," Mr. Lewis said.

Mr. Lewis said a great deal of material exists — from Arabs, from Persians, and from Turks — that can form the basis for democracies in the region. He quoted from a 1786 letter to the king's court in France from the French ambassador to Istanbul explaining why the Ottoman Empire was slow in making decisions. The ambassador reported that unlike in France, where the king made a decision and that was it, "here the sultan has to consult" and so it "takes time to get things done."

Mr. Lewis said he places no hope in the United Nations being part of the solution. He "first realized the U.N. was hopeless" after the partition of Palestine, he said. Palestine was a "triviality" compared to the partition of India that took place a year earlier, in 1947, he added. Millions of refugees were created and yet India and Pakistan formed a working relationship and sorted out the problems.

The key difference, Mr. Lewis said, was that "in the partition of India, the U.N. was not involved. "The United Nations failed to act after the Arab states invaded Palestine, and then treated Jewish and Arab refugees differently, leaving problems that remain today, he said.

UPDATE: Cinnamon Stillwell gives a great recap here as does Judith here.

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Comments

[Ripper]

I am curious as to why Joseph Farah publishes the pig Pat Buchanan's slop twice a week.

[IrishLad317]

It's high time this conversation took place. The line that struck me as telling the story is: "This seems to be one of the malignancies of the UN. How can democracies and dictatorships co-exist in a world body successfully. They can't. And so immediately the organization is/was destined to fail."

We allow a perception of equality to persist as we stand in the midst of states that are failures politically and economically and give them a voice roughly equal to the voice of the democracies. It seems to me that one realization that needs to take place is for the people in the dictatorial regimes to understand how deeply they are being failed (particularly economically) by the few in power in their nations. When we are "forced" by the nature of the UN to give those failed governments undue respect, and allow them to voice their lies of victimhood (as so many do) in what is supposed to be a respected international forum, we are tacitly helping them keep their people oppressed.

If we seperated ourselves from them, providing an example of what COULD be if they joined us, the mentality of the people may change. For example, the question I always hope Muslims in the Middle East will ask is, "If the infidels are so evil, so antithetical to the wishes of Allah, why are they successful and we're NOT?" How much better off would the Palis be if, instead of trying to kill Israelis, they said, "Hey, you've built a thriving economy in this same parched piece of desert we occupy. How'd you do it? Can you help us?"

The dictators of the world have to be deprived of credibility. We do NOT need them. They DO need us. Why are we participating in a failed organization that provides them with a sense of equality? In deep spiritual terms, they are our brothers. But, in the world, politically and economically, we have nothing in common and we could make that clear by standing apart.

P.S. Ali and Pamela together? I need a cold shower!

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[james_everest]

Pamela - I luuuuuuuv you blog. I check your site many times a day and have you promonently linked on my page. I love that you have branched out in to radio, video, and audio.

However - a few requests. 1: Turn off the auto light feature on your camera. It is so annoying how faces disappear into the darkness every time they move. 2: Your audio simply sucks to bad to deal with. Get a wirelss mic to plug into your camera. They are tiny now and would improve you audio to a level that is actually listenable.

[Netman]

This is a fantastic piece of reportage! Atlas you are all over the UN. I look forward to seeing and hearing your subsequent post on this event.

[goesh]

You seem quite comfortable in the presence of 'big shots' - well, why not? You seek and speak the truth. Keep up the good work!
(I didn't want to say I knew I would see your pretty face somewhere amidst the pictures - you might think I'm reading your blog for the wrong reasons!)

[Deepdiver]

Gosh Pamela,
I'm green with envy. Thanks for recording the speeches to share with us - very grateful.

You might be interested in a speech which Pope Ben gave today - he came out very clearly against Islam and Jihad - comes very close to saying that it goes against reason!

It has not yet been reported by reuters et al, but the Italian TV jumped on it - we gave the gist of his statement here:

http://www.gardjola.net/#No_Ambiguity_Here

I wonder whether the msm will try to cover it up. This is really quite groundbreaking.

I know that you think he's a good guy - this should convince you even more!

hehe

[DiplomatKalkiGaur]

Non Aligned Movement (NAM) More Important than United Nations (UNO) in 2006- Kalki Gaur

Sept 12, 2006, Tuesday, 6:30 pm Washington DC:
Post-cold War United Nations is corrupt dysfunctional and irrelevant in 21st Century just as League of Nations had become dysfunctional at the eve of Second World War. Diplomats should dissolve the United Nations and dismiss its entrenched bureaucracy and form a New United World Organization (UWO) but must not hire any person associated with erstwhile UNO. Non-Aligned Movement with 116 members has bright future. India should lead NAM to form NAM head quarters, NAM Treaty Organization (NAMTO), NAM Common Market (NAMCOM). Let us bury United Nations alive in 2007 and sell its assets to pay for its debt.
The United Nations should be dissolved and all its assets auctioned to pay for its debt. The UNO should be replaced by UWO (New United World Organization), but UWO should not hire any person from the UNO as most if not all officials of the UNO are incompetent and have caused to make UNO dysfunctional. The Second World War made League of Nations irrelevant and it was wisely put to deathbed and peace of the coffin. The 2003 Iraq War made United Nations irrelevant and it is wise to put United Nations to deathbed and we should give UNO the peace of a coffin. The old building of the UNO is falling apart and it is high time that we should dissolve the United Nations and save the money we waste on UNO. The UNO has become the home of the parasite diplomatic class that is concerned only about its own self-interest than for anything else. It is high time to dismiss all employees and officers of the United Nations and its subsidiaries. There is no way United Nations can be reformed to meet the need of the modern times. India, Japan, Germany, Brazil and USA should work towards the dissolution of the United Nations in 2007, as it has become dysfunctional just as League of Nations was. Let diplomats of the world join hands to give death burial to the United Nations in 2007.

First. The problems of United Nations are the product of the plethora of new states in Africa that emerged out of the decolonization of the European colonial powers. The very concept of nation-states is facing demise and thereby it is only logical that incompetent United Nations led by incompetent officials is given a swift death-burial and all assets of the United Nations are transferred to the New United World Organization (UWO) that should replace it. However, the New United World Organization (UWO) should not hire even a single person that has worked for the dysfunctional United Nations.

Second. The black leadership of Kofi Annan and preponderance of African officials in the United Nations caused the demise of United Nations. United Nations became a tool of the De Beers and improperly promoted the concept of Conflict Diamond to the detriment of the Black African diamond producers. Just as during slave trading age, the black slave gatherers worked with Arab Muslim slave traders and Christian slave traders to harvest black slaves, similarly United Nations worked diligently to support the genocide of Pagan Blacks at hands of Arab Muslims and Catholics throughout sub-Sahara Africa.

Third. Kofi Annan appointed Saudi woman to lead the women committee of the United Nations. Kofi Annan implanted his henchmen as profiteers of the business of United Nations. United Nations had a chance to reform itself by making India, Brazil, Japan, Germany the Permanent Members of the Security Council. United Nations is beyond repair and it should be dissolved and all its assets sold to pay for its debt. The world would be better off without United Nations ass it is a disgrace to the world and a disgrace to the diplomacy.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh went to Cuba to attend the Non Aligned Nations (NAM) and it shows that NAM has more vitality than UNO. India, Brazil should lead the NAM movement and transform it into a permanent organization with permanent structure and promote it as an alternative to UNO. The Black leadership of the United States sabotaged the UNO to the detriment of the Third World to favor white nations, just as black slave gatherers in the past worked for Arab Muslim slave traders and white Christian slave traders. Similarly, the Muslim leaders that infiltrated in to Non-Aligned Movement as Trojan Horse of the White nations weakened the Non-Aligned Movement from within. The Christian Third world nations and Buddhist nations that are members of the Non-Aligned Movement should play a greater role in the Non-Aligned Movement.

Non-Aligned Movement should develop permanent NAM Secretariat in Andaman Islands of India, which should rival New York UNO headquarters. Non-Aligned Movement should organize NAM University (NAMU), NAM Treaty Organization (NAMTO), NAM Common Market (NAMCOM), NAM Peacekeeping Force (NAMPF) and NAM Administrative Services (NAMAS). The Non-Aligned Movement has 116 members and it is high time that we promote NAM as a permanent world organization, permanent common market, with permanent organizational, bureaucratic infrastructure. NAM Organization (NAMO) shall have better credentials than UNO. It is high time that world leaders agree to bury the incompetent and dysfunctional United Nations with incompetent officials so that out of the ashes of the dead United Nations Organization a new good organization NEW WORLD ORGANIZATION (NWO) could emerge. Let us all celebrate that Havana Cuba Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement has signaled the predestined demise of the United Nations. Let us all work towards the dissolution of the ugly organism of United Nations. Let us all work to develop Non-Aligned Movement into a permanent world organization.

KALKI GAUR
Director: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF GEOPOLITICS. USA Blog URLs:
http://indiatalking.com/blog/kalkigaur/ ; http://360.yahoo.com/diplomacyofcivilizations/ ; http://clearblogs.com/kalkigaur/ ; http://kalkigaur.blogstream.com/ ; http://www.bloglines.com/blog/kalkigaur/ ; http://my.opera.com/kalkigaur/blog/ ; http://kalkigaur.blog.com/ Email: diplomatkalkigaur@yahoo.com ; kalkimail@gmail.com

[G M Roper]

Pamela, you've written some powerful bits of blogging in the past, this is one of your absolute best. Great job.

[Zev]

You´re doing great Pamela, keep it up!

Here´s another thing from Bernard Lewis, in the September issue of Hillsdale, an adaptation of a July 16, 2006 lecture; http://www.hillsdale.edu/imprimis/2006/09/

In concluding he writes;
"I think that the effort is difficult and the outcome uncertain, but I think the effort must be made. Either we bring them freedom, or they destroy us."

Zev

[clifton chadwick]

I agree with all the plaudits you have received. This is a very good post, informative, helpful, interesting, and with good photos, particularly of Hirsi Ali and Claudia Rosett, and, I presume, Pamela/Atlas.
Keep it up. I am afraid it is a losing battle, but we must try.
Cheers

[Jay McGinley]

THE ONLY HOPE FOR DARFUR: WE-THE-PEOPLE. Duh.

It is said that the mark of truly being “crazy” is expecting different results from doing the same thing over and over and…. Ok, we needed to try some new approaches, hoping we could find a new formula for mass social change (stopping Genocide has NEVER been done.); looking for one that would be comfortable, convenient, safe, executed from our computer terminal / phone / TV or office in some combination. The variations we’ve tried are: * Blame (Bush, UN, EU…) , * Emails, letters, postcards…,* Letting the Nonprofits do it, * Divestment. And the results are in. WE ARE NOT, STOPPING THE GENOCIDE!

You mean that the answer for Darfur is the same answer we found for…* Ending the Vietnam War, * Gaining Civil Rights in the US, * Gaining Women the right to Vote in the US, * Ending apartheid in South Africa, * Throwing off the British oppression at our start....?

Yup. No one else, nothing else can stop it, can save 4,000,000 in Concentration Camps in Sudan and Chad. The buck stops with WE-THE-PEOPLE. Let’s stop talking and start - marching, demonstrating, sitting-in, hunger striking….

The next step is September 17th (SaveDarfur.org; DayForDarfur.org). BUT, then we need to be ready on SEPTEMBER 18th, 19th… AS LONG AS IT TAKES, WHATEVER IT TAKES.

Jay McGinley, jymcginley@cs.com; Day 105 24/7 DC VIGIL; Day 35 HUNGER STRIKE (54 days so far this summer, with breaks); ARRESTED Sept 9th at White House with 29 others from Save Darfur; http://wwww.standwithdarfurwhitehouseii.blogspot.com

[Richard Davis]

BZ!

Great work.

You're a one woman dynamo!