I disagree with one minor point

Submitted by There is NO Santa Claus (United States), May 5, 2010 at 07:23

Dr. Pipes:

In your narrative, you make the statement:

"the United Nations — the very institution that created the State of Israel"

Yehuda Blum, Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations once made a point to me that this was not true. In Blum's words, had Israel relied on the United Nations to create the nation, it would have been crushed at the onset.

Not only do I share Amb. Blum's observation; I believe it explains the UN's attitude toward Israel to this very day.

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