A STRANGE PLACE – AT 8:30 P.M. ET:  The UN, that is.  While the Mideast is burning, with government after government firing on its own people, the UN Security Council met in somber session today to take up the issue of...Israeli settlements.

We all know that Israelis who want to live in places their people have lived in for 6,000 years are at the root of every problem in the world.  We do know that, don't we?

So the Security Council met to consider a resolution introduced by Lebanon, whose government has been taken over by the terror group, Hezollah, condemning Israeli settlements.  The U.S. had offered, meekly, to support a "statement" criticizing the settlements, but the Palestinian "leadership" turned that down, insisting on a full-fledged resolution, which the U.S. promptly vetoed, properly asserting that it disrupts the peace process and contributes nothing.  All other Council members voted for the measure, a safe vote.

What is pathetic here is that the episode shows how useless the UN is.  It also shows the weakness of the Obama administration.  Any other recent administration would have been able to persuade the Palestinian nutjobs to accept a mild statement, considering the fact that these UN actions don't mean much anyway. 

One of the tragedies of the Palestinian Arabs is that they have been ruled by incompetent, corrupt and dishonest leaders who've been far more interested in useless gestures than in real progress.  They have a friend in the White House in Barack Hussein Obama Jr., but they certainly don't act as if they do.

At the same time, the UN today failed to show the slightest interest in the fires burning throughout the Mideast.  There's probably a good cocktail party scheduled for tonight.  Mustn't let history interfere.

February 18, 2011