The United Nations General Assembly, the Golan, and Theater of the Absurd

"This past week the United Nations General Assembly commemorated once again the 'International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People' and took the occasion to pass six anti-Israel resolutions.

Ranging from the despicable to the absurd, these resolutions of course have nothing to do with reality in the Middle East, nor do they bring peace one minute closer. Let's take a look at one–the resolution entitled 'The Syrian Golan.'...

The heart of the resolution is this: 'The General Assembly

Determines once more that the continued occupation of the Syrian Golan and its de facto annexation constitute a stumbling block in the way of achieving a just, comprehensive and lasting peace in the region... Demands once more that Israel withdraw from all the occupied Syrian Golan to the line of 4 June 1967 in implementation of the relevant Security Council resolutions;...'

What precisely would happen were Israel tomorrow morning to withdraw from what the UN calls 'the Syrian Golan?' Would Islamic State try to overrun it and slaughter Druze living there? Would Iranian-backed militias take part of it? More likely, would the butcher Bashar al-Assad's Iranian-backed army try to seize it? Or, most likely of all, would Hezbollah forces seize it?

How would that affect the people living there? Or the people living in northern Israel? Or the people living across the border from the Golan in Jordan?...

It's hard to think of a better example of why the United Nations has become the theater of the absurd. The representative of a regime that rules perhaps ten percent of Syria and has murdered half a million of its own people, including with poison gas, condemns Israel for its 'killing.' The General Assembly spends a day passing six resolutions denouncing Israel. And representatives of democracies all around the world hide and abstain."