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UN criticizes Israel’s settlement policy

So, the UN has opined that Israel’s overall settlement policy clearly violates the human rights of Palestinians. The UN is a place where history is invented, not made. The UN has never stood by the State of Israel, created by its own Resolution 181, and ignominiously failed to defend the new State by the use of force as the Resolution authorized. A separate Arab Palestinian state was anticipated to be formed, but the idea was made moot when the armies of five Arab nations, then not giving one fig about peace, human rights, or the UN, invaded partitioned Palestine as the Security Council dithered. It was the action of the Arab nations, not Israel that created the Palestinian refugees. The surrounding Islamist states, whose physical existence is also notably attributable in large measure to international agreements, have never tolerated non-Muslims as witnessed by the dhimmi laws and episodic massacres across the centuries. And, oh, has anyone mentioned the avowed foreign policy of some Islamist states to wipe Israel off the map? The peaceful coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews in the Middle East has been a myth, nicely exploited in modern times by the Arab Palestinians, since the time of Mohammed. The UN be damned.