"The whole world can't be wrong." - Kofi Annan
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By Jan Willem van der Hoeven
Director, International Christian Zionist Center Jerusalem - April 21, 2002

In an impassioned plea for the international community to send armed foreign forces into Israel, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan urged the Security Council to support his call, saying, "The whole world can't be wrong."

Really, Mr Secretary-General?

A. The whole world was wrong when it criticized Israel's destruction of the dangerous weapons of mass destruction in the hands of the Butcher of Baghdad, Saddam Hussein, when Israel's air force destroyed his nuclear plant at Osirak with pinprick precision.

B. The whole world was wrong when it accepted, sheep-like, that an unrepentant arch-terrorist and murderer of, among others, his own people, received the Nobel Prize for Peace in Oslo to world acclaim.

C. The whole world was wrong again when, together with its politicians and commentators, it chose to believe that the handshakes on the White House lawn in 1993 would bring peace to the Middle East.Hardly anyone then saw that, for Arafat, Oslo was just a clever PR ploy to deceive the whole world regarding his unaltered intentions. In this the PLO chief emulated Hitler who, with his handshake with Chamberlain, was able to deceive the world, especially Europe. Also back in the late 1930s, as in 1993 after Arafat's White House handshake, the journalists exclaimed in chorus: "Tremendous breakthrough." "Peace in our time."

How wrong can the whole world be, Mr Annan?

D. When you now send a UN committee of investigation into what occurred in one of the most vicious terror supporting Palestinian centers - the refugee camp near Jenin from which proportionately more gruesome terrorist acts were perpetrated against Israel than from any other city in the West Bank - and you will find no evidence of a massacre committed by the Israel Defense Forces - then again you will prove that the whole world can be and often is mis-directed in its famed pursuit of justice.

E. Mr Kofi Anan, you are an African, and you know that the real inhuman massacres are happening right there in Africa, among other places in the Sudan, where thousands upon thousands of southern Sudanese Christians have been gruesomely massacred, tortured, enslaved and sexually abused by the Taliban- and Al-Qaeda-friendly masters of Khartoum!What has the world, now led by an African Secretary-General, done to prevent further torture and massacres of these poor southern Sudanese people?

And you say, again, the whole world can't be wrong? It is wrong, and unjust, nearly all the time! Do I need to add all the other real massacres that have taken place in this world in Africa and elsewhere, where the world you are heading never dispatched a committee of investigation?

How can it? This world has crowned Syria, which massacred more than 20,000 of its own people in Hama, with a seat on the Security Council which now sends a committee, not to Hama -
of course not - no, to Jenin!

© 2002 Israel My Beloved

[By courtesy of Posy McMillen (USA).]