Moving to Israel

I talked the other day about my disappointment of the United States’ reaction after Israel announced plans to build 1,600 new houses for Jews in east Jerusalem. However,  this disappointment pales in comparison to the latest “words of encouragement” provided by UN chief Ban Ki-moon. On Saturday Ban spoke about how Israeli settlement building anywhere on occupied land is illegal and must be stopped. He also rejected Israel’s distinction between east Jerusalem and the West Bank, noting that both are occupied lands.

While one sided, Israel bashing statements are nothing new from the UN, it still never fails to boil my blood when I hear such garbage. There’s a whole world out there full of murder, slaughter, hunger and other calamities and, yet, the United Nations always seems to find time to condemn, make a resolution against or just generally criticize Israel…this time for building plans!

While we would be naive to believe that the UN will change their opinions about Israel and the Jewish people any time soon, the whole sad situation should really make us remember and be realistic about the world we’re living in and should raise the level of concern even more when the U.S., Israel’s supposed “best friend,” takes the liberty of joining the nonsense.

Ari