"Palestinian Islamic Jihad is, as its name suggests, an organization committed to jihad - against Israel most urgently, though not exclusively. So when the U.N. Security Council on Friday passed a resolution condemning Israel, PIJ spokesman Dawood Shihab was pleased. He called it a 'victory.' He wasn't wrong.
Nor was Fawzy Barhoum, a spokesman for Hamas, another organization openly committed to Israel's extermination, as well as to 'a jihadi revolution' that will be a 'prelude to the establishment of the future Islamic caliphate.' He called the resolution an 'important evolution in international positions.' He expressed Hamas' 'appreciation.'
Most deserving of their gratitude is Barack Obama who decided to spend his last days in office playing golf in Hawaii and throwing America's most reliable ally to the wolves at the U.N., an organization that exhibits passivity when it comes to the ongoing carnage in Syria, the genocide of Christians, Yazidis and other minorities in the broader Middle East, the conflict in Yemen, failing states - the list goes on and on.
The U.N. does, however, expend considerable energy railing against the world's only Jewish state, a tiny democratic nation on the front lines of the war against radical Islam, a war the West is fighting in only the most desultory fashion. This year alone, the U.N. General Assembly passed 20 resolutions censuring Israel, compared to one against Iran and none against Saudi Arabia, Cuba, Venezuela and China. With assistance from President Obama, who instructed his ambassador not to veto Resolution 2334, the Security Council has now piled on as well..."