“The unfolding humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is the latest example of how the veto powers of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council – China, France, Russia, Britain and United States – are helping to destabilise global security in the 21st century.

“Since Sept. 11, the council – the key organ within the UN for maintaining international peace and security – has been repeatedly paralysed by the willingness of permanent members like the United States, Russia and China to act unilaterally to protect their national interests.

For example, “the US has blocked 53 Security Council resolutions relating to Israel in the past 50 years, including the two Gaza resolutions last year.

“The founders of the UN in 1945 conferred the right of veto on the five great powers of that time to ensure they remained in the organisation and helped to solve the world’s problems.

“But after 80 years, it is clear that great powers cannot run today’s world, even if they have the political will, because many challenges facing states in the security, health, environmental or economic spheres do not respect borders and are simply too big even for powerful states to resolve, whether acting alone or with a few allies.”

—by Robert G. Patman, inaugural sesquicentennial distinguished chair and specialist in international relations at New Zealand’s University of Otago

Opinion | As Gaza crisis shows, UN Security Council is being muzzled by vetoes

Editor’s Note.

The UN was born out of the death of the League of Nations, as that body was considered unworkable.

Well, now we can consider the UN as unworkable. Therefore it is time for a New UN. I suggest all member state should leave the UN and start the NEW UN, of course without the veto powers. The winners of world war two are irrelevant more than 80 years later.

The Humanitarian side of the UN is ok and can be transferred to the NEW UN.

The Political side of the UN needs to be reinvented.

Just leave my UN Pension Fund intact…