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OPINION

The United Nations isn't going to stop being useless anytime soon

by Zachary Faria, Commentary Fellow 

 

May 14, 2021 04:37 PM

In case you may have forgotten, the United Nations is taking this week to remind you just how useless and hypocritical it really is.

The U.N. Security Council is getting ready to weigh in on the missiles flying between Gaza and Israel. It’s no secret what conclusion the Security Council is going to reach, given its long history of condemnations of Israel and refusals to condemn the rockets being fired by Palestinian terror groups.

Meanwhile, the latest step in the U.N.’s grand plan to address the genocide being perpetrated by China against the Uyghur minority is asking China to let people in to examine Xinjiang. This issue is so important that U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet did not even join the event.

It’s not clear what good letting U.N. bureaucrats boasting titles such as “high commissioner” go to China would even do. The World Health Organization’s visit to China to investigate the origins of COVID-19 was fairly useless, with even WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus saying the investigation was inadequate.

Meanwhile, the U.N. is considering who will be its next secretary-general. Or at least it should be. Instead, incumbent Antonio Guterres appears to have been coronated for another five years, with none of his opponents being acknowledged. One such opponent, Arora Akanksha, noted that the U.N. would be abandoning its stated principles by not holding a fair election. In the Washington Post, Josh Rogin said that the body is missing an opportunity to examine whether it “is upholding its mission, properly managing its resources and preparing for its future.”

Of course, that’s entirely the point. In his interview with Arora, Rogin relayed that she (correctly) claimed the U.N. is “a wasteful, bureaucratically incompetent organization focused more on publicity and politics than delivering services to member states or people in need.”

The U.N. condemns Israel more than Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea, Iran, and any other human rights abuser you could think of. Three of those countries sit on the Human Rights Council. Two of them, Russia and China, are permanent members of the Security Council and can veto anything they want. As the WHO has shown us with its constant parroting of Chinese propaganda, the U.N. is more of a bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy than a body that does much of anything worthwhile.

When it comes to global health and human rights, the U.N. is useless. The body is subject to the whims of the world’s worst actors. It’s full of antisemitic jackals, terrorist apologists, and useful idiots for the Chinese Communist Party, and this week is a reminder that it isn’t going to change anytime soon.

 

 

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