"[W]hen it comes to the Middle East, moral clarity and truth are in short supply at the United Nations.
On the same day that UN officials were extolling the UN's accomplishments in commemoration of the anniversary of the UN Charter signing, members of the Security Council were confronted with the deadly consequences of UN inaction in Syria...
Even worse, the United Nations has deliberately chosen to make Israel its number one human rights villain, thereby giving the Assad regime the pretext to argue that it is not so bad by comparison. When Syria has received criticism, it has been watered down at the urging of Russia and China...
[T]he UN Human Rights Council treats Israel as a worse violator of international law than the Syrian regime. The Secretary General's Children and Armed Conflict report undercounted the number of children killed in Syria while relying in part on Hamas-supplied figures in its estimation of the number of Palestinian children killed in Gaza. And the International Criminal Court has launched a preliminary investigation of the war in Gaza while repeated requests to refer the Syrian conflict to the International Criminal Court have stalled in the Security Council.
In closing his remarks at the anniversary celebration of the UN Charter's signing, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said that 'The Charter is our compass.' Too often today, the UN has lost its way, as so vividly illustrated by the moral equivalence, if not worse, it applies to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the massacres in Syria."