The mooted appearance by Zionist Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the 79th annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly is a serious test of the world body’s fidelity to its original mission of pursuing global security and peace.
How can the UN convince the world and its peoples of its sincerity when it receives a war criminal who has enacted a genocide against unarmed civilians, women and children for nearly a year?
The General Assembly is one of the world’s most important international forums. It embodies the principle of equality, allowing every country equal weight regardless of size or power. All countries have the right to speak, participate and vote, from the very big and powerful to the very small.
The meeting also attempts to nudge the international compass toward the UN’s five underlying goals of maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, supporting sustainable; development and climate action and upholding international law.
All of these goals require preventing a war criminal like Netanyahu from appearing before such an assembly. ….more
