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With Syrian crisis threatening entire Middle East, UN official urges Israeli-Palestinian progress,
UN News Centre
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UN "Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Jeffrey Feltman briefed the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East." And the headline of the resulting UN Press Release read as follows: "With Syrian crisis threatening entire Middle East, UN official urges Israeli-Palestinian progress." The UN logic: Syrians are dying in the tens of thousands, and therefore, Israel must act. Whatever horror Arabs are perpetrating on each other, Israel is somehow responsible. The press release details the non-sequiter this way: "With a "grim" tragedy unfolding in Syria, the United Nations Political Chief told the Security Council today that at this moment of increased risk across the entire Middle East, rapid action was needed not only to address the impact of that crisis, but also to make progress on the Israeli-Palestinian front." The facts are exactly the reverse. Syrians aren't dying & MidEast risk isn't increasing because of what Israel has or hasn't done. It's because of what the UN has or hasn't done. While Arab dictators have pillaged their own countries for decades, a UN obsessed with demonizing Israel has been otherwise occupied.