There comes a point when diplomatic language stops being wisdom and starts becoming cowardice. There comes a point when international concern stops sounding principled and starts sounding like institutional fraud. And there comes a point when the United Nations loses the right to lecture the State of Israel altogether.

That point was passed long ago.

The United Nations today is not a serious moral authority in the eyes of many. It is not a neutral guardian of peace. It is not a trustworthy referee. It is not a body that rises above politics and prejudice. It is, increasingly and unmistakably, a bloated international machine that has built an obsessive, one-sided, and morally twisted relationship with the world’s only Jewish state.

And after October 7, the mask finally came off.

Because October 7 was the ultimate test. If there were ever a moment when the United Nations should have responded with absolute clarity, moral force, and zero ambiguity, it was the day Hamas crossed into Israel, slaughtered civilians, burned homes, raped, tortured, mutilated, kidnapped, and turned Jewish life into a hunting ground.

And what did the UN do?

It hesitated. It diluted. It qualified. It contextualized. It excused. It reached for caution where there should have been thunder. It reached for balance where there should have been moral judgment. It reached, once again, for that sickening instinct that has infected so much of the international system: when Jews are butchered, the first question is never simply who committed evil. The first question is how quickly Israel can be dragged back into the dock.

That is why Antonio Guterres’ infamous phrase that October 7 “did not happen in a vacuum” landed the way it did. Because this was not just a verbal mistake. It was a moral reflex. A revealing reflex. The reflex of an international establishment that, even after the largest massacre........

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