On August 6, 2014, the United Nations convened the entire global community for an unusual day-long "informal" session of the General Assembly. The purpose: to demonize the Jewish state and emasculate its right of self-defense.
The UN formula for ravaging Israel by ignoring the criminal actions of its foes – and the foes of the civilized world – is breathtaking.
Not one of the UN speakers – the Secretary-General, the representative of the Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the UN Human Rights Commissioner, the UN's MidEast envoy, the head of UNRWA – even uttered the word "tunnel."
Israel was denounced for destroying "homes and neighborhoods" and "civilian infrastructure." But the fact that Israel had destroyed an extraordinary labyrinth of 32 terror tunnels deep underground – running for miles, jam packed with explosives, opening near Israeli towns, and built for the sole purpose of killing Jews – somehow just got left out.
Terror tunnels also did not make it into repeated references to "root causes." Hamas' promise to kill Jews and "obliterate" Israel did not count as a root cause of the conflict either. At the UN, "root cause" is reserved for the Israeli "occupation" – that is, the non-existent Jews that have not lived in Gaza for eight years.
Part of the reason that Palestinian hate-speech does not make it on to the UN agenda is that the UN has no definition of terrorism. In UN circles, Hamas is not a terrorist organization, but a welcome member of the Palestinian "unity" government...