AFP | Jul 17, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama’s nominee for UN envoy Wednesday slammed the global body’s “unacceptable bias” against Israel, and pledged to lobby hard to get America’s closest Mideast ally a seat on the Security Council.
Even as detractors criticise her past statements about Israel, genocide expert and human rights champion Samantha Power enjoys bipartisan support in the US Senate, where broad cooperation this week on executive branch nominees was likely to ease her expected confirmation.
Power would replace Susan Rice, who leaves under a cloud for her role in the administration’s public explanation for the deadly attack on the US mission in Libya last September 11 that left four Americans dead including the ambassador there.
Obama has appointed Rice as his new national security adviser.
Power, who also faulted the United Nations for failing to stop the slaughter in Syria, said in her testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that America enjoys a “special relationship” with Israel, whose “legitimacy should be beyond dispute, and its security must be beyond doubt”.
She added: “Within this [UN] organisation built in the wake of the Holocaust… we also see unacceptable bias and attacks against the state of Israel.”
Not only did Power pledge to fight such bias, she said she would “absolutely” commit to seeking a first-time seat for Israel on the 15-member UN Security Council in 2018.
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This could be / should be the last straw for the UN. Let Israel get a Security Council seat and let all other sane countries leave this most undemocratic institution of ‘United’ Nations Organization!
If such countries will get place in the United Nations security council then it will be a Disunited Nation. Then I am sorry to say that the so called super powers and the so called democratic countries are following the policy of ” Might is Right “.
The UN Security Council is the prove that Might is Right.
That would be the last nail in the coffin of UN.