Israel’s outgoing Ambassador to the United Nations, Gilad Erdan, called his former place of employment “an unnecessary building,” and said that it should be “wiped off the face of earth.”

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      2 months ago

      Mind you at that time, the UN was essentially just the League of Nations, some puppet states that were bribed and/or threatened, and the arab states who unanimously against it.

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        And by imposing the partition plan instead of holding a plebiscite, the UN overtly violated its own charter.

        It strikes me that what we have here is basically the plot of Frankenstein, played out over 80 years of world history…