On the Moral Bankruptcy of the United Nations

This blog is fast becoming centred around Yasser Arafat, as most of the posts of the last week so clearly illustrate. At the risk of glorifying the life of a man who has done lasting harm to his corner of the world, I promise that this will be the last post I compose related to this subject.

Western leftists and the United Nations have always had a soft spot for Arafat, especially after his 1974 address to the UN General Assembly, which thrust him into the spotlight as a presumptive statesman despite the orchestration of the Munich Massacre only two years prior by a group under the Arafat-led PLO umbrella.

But today's show of support (solidarity?) by the UN towards Arafat was tactless. The Globe reports that "[o]n the instructions of Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the flag at United Nations headquarters in New York was lowered to half-mast, as it would have been for the leader of a nation."

Yes, on 11 November, the UN flag was not lowered to commemorate the sacrifices of the liberators of Europe, but to honour the death of a terrorist.

How pathetic.