The U.N.'s Delusion

"Former US ambassador to the United Nations and staunch Israel defender Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said 'everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.'

For decades, the UN has repeatedly shown that it thinks it can set its own facts about Israel, history be damned.

Moynihan is known for, among other things, giving a speech against the UN's 1975 decision that "Zionism is racism," a distortion that he called an 'infamous act' by which 'the abomination of antisemitism has been given the appearance of international sanction.'

On Friday, 43 years later, UN member countries authorized six anti-Israel resolutions in the General Assembly, including writing the Jewish people out of Jerusalem's history, showing all these years later that the institution has not changed.

A resolution approved by 148 countries, and opposed by 11 that are committed to the historic truth, denied Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem. That and another, which was approved 156-8, spoke of al-Haram al-Sharif without mentioning that Jews and Christians call it the Temple Mount and that it is Judaism's holiest site.

After the UN declared Zionism to be racism, Moynihan said in his speech: 'As it is a lie which the United Nations has now declared to be a truth, the actual truth must be restated.'

The same applies to Friday's decisions..."