The UN is crippled systemically through the systematic use in the Security Council of the veto powers resting with the five economic powers of the world holding permanent seats - the US, the UK, France, Russia and China. With a single swish of veto baton by any one member is written the fate of a whole country or nation, despite the overwhelming majority of the UN General Assembly votes in favour of peace and justice.

The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, an intergovernmental organisation consisting of 57 member states, 48 of which are Muslim majority, despite its tall claims to be "the collective voice of the Muslim world" and to "safeguard and protect the interests of the Muslim world in the spirit of promoting international peace and harmony" is incapacitated, owing to parochial economic stakes and disunity in the Muslim world, to counter Israeli nefarious designs against Palestine.

For instance, in the joint summit of the Arab League and the OIC in 2023, the UAE and Bahrain opposed the move of imposing punitive economic and political........

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