The UN and Israel: A History of Discrimination
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THE UN AND ISRAEL
A History of Discrimination
Joshua Muravchik
Unfortunately... Israel [has] suffered from bias-and sometimes
even discrimination at the United Nations, said none other than the UN's
highest official, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, speaking in Jerusalem in
August. Back at headquarters a week later, Ban withdrew the substance of
the comment without denying he had made it. The retraction was less sur-
prising than the original assertion, which was remarkable because of the
identity of the speaker, not for what was said, the reality of which is about
as well concealed as the sun on a cloudless noon.
Israel's status as a pariah state at the United Nations reflected a change
in the world body dating from the 1970s. In its early decades, the UN
was dominated by the Cold War competition between East and West, but
between 1952 and 1968 these two blocs became outnumbered by a third,
as the UN's rolls increased from eighty-two to one hundred and twenty-six
member states. Most of the new members were former colonies that had
recently won their independence, and they formed what became the lead-
ing bloc at the UN, the Non-Aligned Movement.
The dearest cause of the NAM was anti-colonialism, which put the West
in the dock. Thus, the new bloc was non-aligned far more emphatically with
Joshua Muravchik is a fellow atJohns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International
Studies and a frequent contributor to World Affairs. His new book, MakingDavid into Goliath:
How the World Turned Against Israel, from which this is adapted, will be published next year.
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