Bring this dream to reality

Whenever we believe the United Nations Assembly has reached its lowest point of anti-Israel discrimination, it promptly buries its head in the sands of further anti-Israel bias through ignorance, idiocy, stupidity and futility (“In 90-30 vote, UN decides to mark Palestinian ‘Nakba Day,’” December 2).

This time, even remarkable for this international body – which has no brain, no raison d’etre and no common sense, it passed an extraordinary resolution proclaiming “Nakba Day” meaning the “catastrophe” of the rebirth of the State of Israel.

The only “Nakba” is actually the United Nations General Assembly itself which since its founding has accomplished nothing. Moreover, its anti-Israel resolutions only serve to exacerbate the situation and encourage terror organizations which, in seeking the destruction of the State of Israel, deprive their own citizens of a life of dignity and decency in a peaceful Middle East.

The way to peace in the Middle East is for all the terrorist organizations to lay down their arms, recognize the State of Israel and come without preconditions to the negotiating table. This may seem like a dream but “it is out of dreams that reality is born,” and it’s time to seek leaders of the free world who are willing and capable of bringing this dream to reality.

Clearly the United Nations organization is neither willing nor competent to promote such a resolution, and maybe the time has come to defund this moribund, useless body of incompetence.

ARNOLD EPSTEIN

Jerusalem