Kofi Annan
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9/24/2004 17:28:15
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 Subject: What the UN is all about
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Palestine is a very good example of what the United Nations is all about. When the US inherited the Zionist project Israel -- from Great Britain during WWII, it became important to legitimise Israels racism. The US requested an approval from Stalin during the Yalta talks for Palestine to be transformed into a Jewish State. The project had Churchills approval. In 1947, the UN, an organization that was supposed to promote non-aggression and equality based on all countries respecting one another, voted on a US-British Partition Plan in which the land of Palestine was divided between European settlers and the indigenous Arabic Palestinian population. The UN thus appointed to itself the authority to divide a country according to a colonial British initiative.
Once Palestinians were uprooted by the Zionist strategy of population transfer, the UN responded to such aggression by providing the Palestinians tents instead of acting forcefully to stop the transfer and bring refugees home. Later, all efforts by the UN were devoted to physically resettling Palestinian refugees by building schools and homes for them in Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan, far from their occupied homeland.
The UNs behaviour in Palestine is mirrored in the nation of Iraq. In Iraq, the UN facilitated a justification for US war in 1991, followed by a weapons inspections program and 13 years of devastating sanctions.
Allegations of Iraqs weapons of mass destruction were brought to the UN by the United States, whose only agenda was to assert the New American Century and commence the new Bush Pre-emptive Doctrine. The US used the inspections as a cover to buy off Iraqi officials and military personnel, collect intelligence on Iraqi arms, and, astonishingly, to force Iraq to destroy the very weapons it might use to defend itself against the massive US invasion. Iraq was forced to destroy El-somoud missiles up until the evening of March 18th, when the US/UK invasion began. General Franks, the US military leader during the invasion of Iraq, spoke of how CIA spies were part of the inspection teams touring Iraq, and how they contacted the Iraqi Republican Army leadership and offered money in return for collaboration.
The UN paved the way for the US/UK invasion of Iraq by providing a series of resolutions as a pretext, and then entered Iraq as part of the occupation. Furthermore, the UN accepted the US puppet regime -- the so-called Transitional Governing Council of Iraq -- which legitimised an occupation that meant for Iraqis the severe privation of basic daily needs, such as electricity, food, and water; a severe shortage of fuel this in the land of one of the worlds largest oil reserves; and, finally, the further destruction of their civilization.
The August 19, 2003 attack on the UN headquarters in Baghdad was an attack on the US. The US was facing a worsening situation as a new occupying colonial power, and needed to use the UN, once again, to get out of it. Because of the Iraqi resistance, the occupation of Iraq has not turned out to be the easy ride Uncle Sam envisioned. At no time has the UN been an innocent bystander.
 
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