FRIDAY, March 29, 2024
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General Assembly or General Farce?

General Assembly or General Farce?

The annual gathering of the UN General Assembly is underway this week. May I make an educated guess regarding what this highly politicised body, where each member country has one vote and there are no vetoes, will NOT do.

It will not issue scathing resolutions regarding the death of hundreds of thousands of Syrian civilians.
It will not condemn Saudi-led Arab coalition attacks on Yemeni schoolchildren and hospitals. It will not adopt any condemnation of the appalling genocide of the Rohingya at the hands of the Burmese army. It will not ostracise the global scourge of terrorism in the name of religion.
Instead, the General Assembly will adopt yet another anti-Israel resolution, an annual ritual that has not so far helped the Palestinians achieve their deserved statehood.
Andy Leitner

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