"The United Nations itself promotes anti-Israel rhetoric and efforts to treat the only Jewish state differently from all other members. With U.S. participation, it interceded to investigate the Gaza flotilla incident, a denigration of Israel's sovereignty and ability to investigate and remedy its own conduct. As a body, the U.N. again and again takes up anti-Israel resolutions. The U.N. tolerates, and by its silence condones, anti-Semitism...
Truth be told, the hundreds of thousands of dead Syrians and millions of displaced men, women and children should tell you all you need to know about this administration's priorities and lack of concern about real human rights atrocities...
For nearly five years the United States has been condemning-sometimes in the 'strongest possible terms'-the depredations of the Assad regime. Unless the administration intends to do something about civilian slaughter it should align its words with its actions and go silent. It is the mismatch between word and deed that would have encouraged Russian President Vladimir Putin to discount the United States entirely when he evaluated the risks of military intervention in Syria. If Putin thinks he runs a greater risk of running out of aviation fuel than in encountering push-back from Washington, who is to say he is wrong?...
It is that sort of hypocritical indifference to human rights atrocities that gives the impression the administration is entirely unserious about the subject. And if the United States is unserious, why should the United Nations be any less so? And why should it not cynically wield human rights as it seeks to ostracize Israel from the 'international community'?
President Obama's effort to put distance between the United States and Israel, his slothful human rights approach and his kowtowing to those whose behavior threatens both U.S. and Israeli interests are flashing green lights to the Israel haters: Go ahead! No downside! After all, when the president brushes off Iran's institutional policy of anti-Semitism with the wave of a hand, what are other countries to think?"