Israeli Defense Minister Liberman to UN: Never Mind Israel - What About Syria, N. Korean Nukes?

"Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman on Thursday warned United Nations diplomats they risked becoming 'irrelevant' by focusing on anti-Israel resolutions, while ignoring issues like the thousands killed in Syria and North Korea's nuclear weapons.

Speaking to a host of foreign diplomats in a briefing at the UN hosted by the Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon, Liberman blasted the world body for a series of 'anti-Israel' resolutions passed in recent weeks at the General Assembly and two especially contentious documents adopted by two UNESCO committees of resolutions that ignore Jewish ties to Jerusalem's Temple Mount and other holy sites in Israel, while highlighting the Islamic connection.

He called these decisions 'absurd and hypocritical' and said they demonstrated how the UN and especially the Security Council, was 'not fulfilling its role and was irrelevant to events on the world stage.'

Meanwhile the United Nations, and other world bodies, have been 'unsuccessful' in trying to solve issues related to world security and that it has 'become less and less relevant' in the international sphere.

The defense minister said that the raging war in Syria - which has claimed the lives of over 300,000 according to UN figures since it began in 2011 - and other areas in the Mideast and Africa 'where hundreds of people are killed on a daily basis,' should 'concern everyone.'

Liberman also chided the UN for its failure to curb North Korea's nuclear ambitions and its repeated defiance of international sanctions and diplomatic pressure..."