Look at it this way – the score could have been 193 to nothing.
That’s the figure Israel’s part-time “peace partner” and full-time terrorist Mahmoud Abbas keeps going after as chairman of the Palestinian Authority.
Instead, the tally at the UN General Assembly came to 87 against Israel, 26 in favor, and 53 abstentions.
That is still lopsided, and if you are a bettor, and the UN versus Israel is your game, you probably collected.
What was it all about? New Year, same old story – Israel is an “occupier” in Judea, Samaria, and Jerusalem, the land of its Hebrew fathers, by the way.
All that territory, they say, is in the wrong hands, and belongs to the Palestinian Arabs, who have no Bible and no history of nationhood in or around the Holy Land.
It became the Holy Land thanks to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, David, and many other men of towering distinction, and women of valor, up to today’s IDF.
Details like that are no bother at the UN, which referred its latest anti-Israel proposal to the World Court in the Hague.
The World Court, which, as Napoleon would say, has no army, so who’s afraid? Well, it can make trouble simply through bad-mouthing somebody, anybody.
Any bets on which side those judges will take?
The World Court happens to be a satellite of the United Nations. So much for a fair trial.
But didn’t they do all that before?
Seems like only yesterday, in fact it was 2016 when this time the UN Security Council passed Resolution 2334, same deal as today. Israel in the wrong.
We read that outgoing PM Lapid and incoming PM Netanyahu each, separately, took to the phones pleading with world leaders to vote nay for the latest UN travesty.
Why make so much effort over something that amounts to nothing? On Israel, the UN has zero credibility, and since Res 2334, the year 2016, Israel has grown even mightier.
True, it is understood, that nobody wants to be disliked. We’d all rather have friends than enemies. That goes for individuals, and nations, too.
No wonder, then, that Israel reached out for some love, and got 26, as meanwhile 87 nations turned their backs, among them Arab nations that signed peace treaties with Israel.
Go figure…and what’s the deal with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy? Seems that he told Netanyahu that he’d vote favorably for Israel conditionally…only if Israel supplied him with more defensive equipment, which is some chutzpah, seeing how Israel is itself constantly under the gun on all its borders.
Israel already gave and Israel must always weigh its balance between Russia and anybody else. Some consideration for Israel’s tight spot would have been appreciated.
In the end, Zelenskyy voted to abstain. This did Israel no favor, and proved how fickle some people, some nations, can be. Zelenskyy is an ingrate.
That was a gratuitous slap, as it was during the Dark Ages when the Chief Rabbi of Toulouse had to present himself, once a year, to the cathedral for a ceremonial slap across the face.
For the crime of being Jewish…and for a grudge that persists to this day. As we have just seen at the UN.
Israel must continue to make friends, as it did through the Abraham Accords, but if there’s a lesson here, it’s that Israel must never count on being adored.
From strength to strength is the only way.
New York-based bestselling American novelist Jack Engelhard writes regularly for Arutz Sheva.
He wrote the worldwide book-to-movie bestseller “Indecent Proposal,” the authoritative newsroom epic, “The Bathsheba Deadline,” followed by his coming-of-age classics, “The Girls of Cincinnati,” and, the Holocaust-to-Montreal memoir, “Escape from Mount Moriah.” For that and his 1960s epic “The Days of the Bitter End,” contemporaries have hailed him “The last Hemingway, a writer without peer, and the conscience of us all.” Email Jack here.
