"...Ron Prosor, Israel's former ambassador to the UN and now head of the Abba Eban Institute of International Diplomacy at IDC Herzeliya, thinks the UN bias against Israel was not only dictated by support for the Palestinian cause.
'There are countries in Africa, former Soviet territory and Asia that would vote in favour of Israel at the UN on some of the issues but they are afraid of certain blocs that would gang up against them and prevent them from getting any positions at the organisation if they dared to do so', he explained referring to such influential groups as the Arab League, the Organisation of Islamic Conference or the Non-Alignment Movement (NAM) whose representatives are present at the UN.
Established in 1955 and boasting some 125 member states, NAM vowed to be impartial, uniting countries that didn't want to belong to either the American or the Soviet bloc.
In practice, however, says Prosor it ended up being biased against Israel. 'It is really a numbers game. This bloc has the numbers so if they decide to go after a country, be sure it is doomed'...
Prosor believes that the UN accepts this behaviour because of its 'triple standards'. 'There is one standard for democracies, one standard for dictatorships, and one special standard for Israe'..."