He's not right very often, but when he is ...

… he’s very very right (no pun intended). I’m talking about Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, who has written a scathing piece that lays out the case for how the do-nothings at the UN legitimizes terrorists. A snippet:

But Annan heads an organization that is so anti-Israel that as the late Abba Eban, the early Israeli ambassador to the UN, once put it: “If Algeria proposed a resolution that the Earth was flat and that Israel has flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 120 to 3, with 27 abstentions.”

Many such resolutions have been passed by the General Assembly, including the notorious one equating the Jewish national liberation movement with “racism.” Other one-sided resolutions have been passed by the General Assembly legitimating terrorism. Only the U.S. veto–which does not operate in the UN General Assembly–has prevented one-sided resolutions by the Security Council.

If a space alien from a distant planet were to land at the UN, he would come away with the impression that Israel is not only the sole offender in the Middle East, but the worst offender in the entire world. He would single out Israel for condemnation and exclude it from membership on many UN bodies, on which Syria, Lebanon and Iran serve in positions of honor.

Annan himself has a long history of one-sided condemnations of Israel. In March 2004, Annan “strongly condemned” Israel’s targeted killing of Sheik Ahmad Yassin, the terrorist leader of Hamas, without condemning Yassin for his murderous actions or his organization for the murder of Jewish civilians. In December 2003, Annan “strongly condemned” Israel’s assault on a Palestinian refugee camp where two gunmen were thought to be hiding. And in 2005, he issued the most tepid of statements–expressing “dismay”–at threats by Iran’s president to “eliminate” Israel, a member nation of the UN. The list goes on and on.

And right on cue (emphasis added):

UNITED NATIONS, July 25 (Reuters) – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on Israel on Tuesday to investigate what he termed the “apparently deliberate targeting” by Israeli defense forces of a U.N. observer post in Lebanon.

The Israeli air strike killed four U.N. military observers who were part of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, U.N. and Lebanese officials said

“I am shocked and deeply distressed by the apparently deliberate targeting by Israeli Defense Forces of a U.N. Observer post in southern Lebanon,” Annan said in a statement issued in New York and Rome, where he was attending Wednesday’s international conference on the violence in Lebanon.

Premature declarations of guilt. Gee, now where have I seen that before?

Update: Little Green Footballs does some digging and finds out that the UN is actually rebuilding Hezbollah-controlled roads that were damaged by the Israeli military so as to hamper Hezbollah’s ability to use mobile war machinery.

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ST Flashback:

UN Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people

Prior:

North Shore says:

July 25, 2006 at 10:59 pm

Let me get this right, these were the same UN observers that watched passively as Hezbollah terrorists made numerous attacks on Israel, who watched as the terrorists kidnapped Israeli soldiers, who remained silent and hid evidence of UN soldiers’ complicity in kidnappings (the four Indian observers bribed to allow the attack), and who allowed Hezbollah to “dig in” and create fortifications in southern Lebanon contrary to UN resolutions? Hmmm, I’d say that Israel has recognized who the enemy really is…

Marshall Art says:

July 26, 2006 at 12:24 am

Off topic, but I just had to submit it. From a letter to the Factor—stop me if you’ve heard it before:

How many looney libs does it take to screw in a light bulb?

Doesn’t matter. They won’t see the light anyway.

Drewsmom says:

July 26, 2006 at 5:48 am

I was totally outraged when I heard coffeeannan, the uselesss head of one of the most corrupt organizations in the world, say that Isreal fired on the un observers on purpose. Give me a break, they were firing on a village ripe with hez guys and hit the post by mistake. Could these unfortunate gents be watching from somewhere else, why were they out there in the middle of a battle field. We have seen em killed in Iraq, unfortunatly and they then left the country. We have all seen how well these guys due in conflicted areas, can you say rape and other things. coffeeanna is useless and even the Generals on the cnn, msnbc and other biased news networks have said this was a mistake.

stackja says:

July 26, 2006 at 5:54 am

Kofi pot calls Hellzblowhard white and Israel black?

Lorica says:

July 26, 2006 at 10:22 am

Actually, if I were an IDF pilot I would be worried that these “UN Observers” were actually giving away troop movements to my enemy. I would speculate these guys heard some radio traffic to that extent. Outside of John Bolton, I despise the UN. Under “Hell No” Kofi, the UN has become nothing more than cover for 3rd world thugs, and criminals. – Lorica

July 26, 2006 at 1:19 pm

My apologies for the above post. It is being reported that Hezbollah had a rocket launcher next to this building. Which then gives way to the question of why these guys stayed in that building. One has to wonder. – Lorica

benning says:

July 26, 2006 at 2:49 pm

Dershowitz makes me shake my head. He’s as Conservative as can be as long as it’s Israel he’s concerned about. The rest of the time he’s a Leftist as they come.

He doesn’t seem to ‘get’ that his support of Leftist rhetoric and Leftist policies are part of what’s responsible for the Western stupidity toward the Islamist Terror. Why is there always that disconnect with Libs?