This article is an excellent explanation of the double standards imposed upon Israel. Why is it that the UN spends all this time on Israel - with so many condemnations? Is this Israel's problem or an inherent UN prejudice?

I know I have seen pictures of Iranian police killing or injuring massive numbers of protestors, begging for fair elections. I regulary read about Zimbabwe starving its own population so Mugabe can maintain power. I read about Hamas killing its own, when they percieved them collaborating with Fatah. Dissent is forbidden. Saudia Arabia's "modesty" policy beat up women who don't meet their criterion of womenhood. More are murdered and beaten up in these locations than in any part of Israel, in any year.

What is missing is street protests against them, copious onlineforum readers scathing rejection of them, or UN condemnations on mass.

This article beautifully highlights the only "regime" that the UN is interested in changing and those it comfortably turns a blind eye to.

That Israel has problems, or that its governments may do wrong, is no excuse for one eyed winks to hoodlum regimes, with disproportionate condemnations and expectations from only one.

"Therefore, I think let Israel expand and run the whole region because it is a force for good," says Benjamin. Is that Benjamin Netanyahu? Is he writing comments on OLO now? Isn't Singer too much already?

Anyone who would claim that the brutal, criminal regime in Israel is a force for good is seriously deranged!

As regards Israel and Israel's Arab neighbours, it is six of one and half dozen of the other. How long can the international community (the UN) stand by and a just issue meaningless statements, is yet to be seen.

Many political "solutions" deal with past problems. The UN itself was created to avoid a situation like World War 2 happening. If there was a Security Council before 1936, neither Mancuria nor Ethiopia would have been invaded, and Hitler's ambitions would have been twarted.

Yes, the Security Council is undemocratic. The Permanent Members do as they please. It is not just the USA. It is China that invaded Tibet, it is Russia that tramples on the minorities like Chechnia or Georgia, and Afghanistan in 1979.

At present, the Security Council is used as a fig leaf so that a major power can do what it thinks is necessary. Although, there are indications that interfering in Afghanistan will not go on for very much longer. (Especially as China - a Permanent Member - just likes to see the West get embroiled in costly ventures.)