Trump Must Take on the United Nations

"For all the talk on the political scene about draining the swamp, there is one entity - conveniently located on the East River of New York City - which deserves to be cast adrift if not altogether drowned...

Yes, that laughably ironic misnomer known as the United Nations, where nations are united only in their hatred of Israel, is now under the kind of scrutiny it has never before experienced. For decades, the UN received a blank check of $8 billion from the United States, and allowed unpaid parking tickets to accumulate with diplomatic immunity.

American presidents never bothered to ask what the United States was getting for its money other than hundreds of resolutions condemning its ally - Israel, while rogue states that slaughtered millions and gave barbarism a bad name got away without even a summons.

The Trump administration, however, is now sending a forceful message that the UN must be held accountable for its moral hypocrisy, fecklessness and theatrical obsession with Israel. For nearly its entire 70-year existence, the UN, coincidentally located on 42nd Street, has acted as if it is a Broadway theatre and not an international peacekeeping enterprise - replete with costumes, comedy and sanctimonious melodrama on matters that do little to benefit humankind. The examples are endless, with Israel as global fall guy...

The United States rejoined the HRC during the Obama administration, believing, predictably, that the sheer force of "hope and change" charisma would magically lead to its reform. Trump's team, so far, is refreshingly more dubious. Rather than watch Israel's isolation, Tillerson and Haley are reminding the world that there's no point perpetuating a fraud and funding a behemoth that can't find something meaningful to do in a world full of despots and where Israel is hardly global enemy number one."