Do any of you people even understand that WE are the UN? The UN is not an alien body sent down to put out trouble spots caused by others.

The UN is us - over 6 billion people and not just a few.

Jesus wept. So Lebanon didn't want a Jewish state on their land, nor did Palestine but it was us that forced them to.

Why did we do that? Because, we didn't want the bloody Jews.

Get a grip for god's sake. Do something useful instead of sitting back sniping and whining.

The UNSC will never function as it should while the US vetoes every single resolution against Israel. Full stop.

youngsteve,

dont be fooled by the propaganda about 'Israel's right to defend itself'

Israel sent a 'precision' missile directly thru the cross on a red Cross vehicle and blew up a UN Observation post that had been there for twenty years. The equation is clear:

Israel has the right to defend itself = Israel has to right to kill whoever and however many people it wants

The truth is that Israel is completely out of control. Israelies seem to suffer from a collective psychosis where they think if anyone attacks them they need to raze cities to the ground and kill hundreds of civilians. The equation seems to be

two captured 'choosen people' = the death of 400 innocent Lebanese civilians and the destruction of their country.

Sage: I'd accuse you of being a cynic, but then that would make me one too! The UN, like any form of government, has a vested interest in not solving anything (and where possible, making it worse) because that would put it out of a job. The whole point of the UN and its careerists is shameless self-promotion.

bushbred: Do you honestly think that if America lost its veto it would remain in the UN? Once it did a runner, how long do you think the UN would last? I mean in any other form but that of a club for the crumbling sacrimonious Europeans clinging to the delusion that anyone in the world really cares what they think (yet who still make their own dodgy deals in the shadows)? However, I agree with you that the rest of the UN should remove America's veto, if only to inadvertently put the final coffin in this grotesque would-be world tyranny (the UN I mean).

Incidentally, I generally take the media with a grain of salt. Just as I'm inclined to believe there's a fair bit of pro-Israel propaganda out there, I wonder how much anti-Israel propaganda there is. Maybe the Israelis were the ones who blew up the UN (sporting shooting I say), but maybe they weren't. Nah, Hezbollah couldn't have done that now, could they?! You know what, a real cynic might even say that the UN did it to itself to try to regain some sort of relevance.

Oh how jaded I have become!

Marilyn Shepherd

How could you quote Jesus and then write "Because, we didn't want the bloody Jews"?

Jesus and all the apostles were bloody Jews.

And do you understand anything about the UN? We are not the UN. The UN contains representatives of all member nations regardless of population, regardless of how there government is chosen. The large number of small Muslim nations, almost none with governments chosen by their people, have votes way out of proportion to their numbers and totally without input from their people.

The UN is fast becoming a wank.

Israel is fighting an enemy which wishes to destroy it and hides its armaments amongst villagers.

You have a bleeding heart but try to use your head. Are Arab babies more important to you than Jewish babies. If that is the case forget about Christianity because it is entirely Jewish.

Logic my point was that Israel exists because the christians didn't want the Jews.

I have never said I agree with any such horror.

We need and should get The United Nations setup by the people, for the people.

Not The United Nations setup by The World Governments, for The World Governments.