Great stuff!
With opinions like those, how did you get a senior University position?

Cheers
RodC

Most of the “international community” consists of uncivilized, undemocratic middens. This so-called community is the very last thing we, in civilized, democratic Australia should be listening to, unless we wish to go back to the Dark Ages.

The UN used to be a joke. Now it is a downright danger to the world.

Australia should not have a bar of the UN, which is run by despots.

Well said, James Allan.

well, i'm inclined to admire any un body that manages to criticize israel. there should be more of it.

everyone criticizes the 'other side', and refuses to accept criticism for 'our (blameless)team'. clearly the new commission has a different composition than the old one. maybe after they feel they have evened up the scoreboard, they will be more evenhanded, but it's unlikely- america never saw a blemish on israeli policy in 60 odd years.

as long as both sides get to publish the warts of the other, bystanders can make up their own minds about where fault lies. for me, the zionists changed a land 85% moslem into a jewish state with bombing and murder. i don't give much credibility to zionist speech anymore.

And this is the same UN that Stephen Hagan relies upon for support in his endless diatribe against the Nigger Brown stand - soon, I hope, to be replaced by the Nigger Brown statue!

"i'm inclined to admire any un body that manages to criticize israel"

DEMOS - Israel surely is not the only, or even the worst, human rights offender. Granted that Israel deserves condemnation, don't you think the author has a point about the utterly one-sided and hypocritical nature of these criticisms?

It is easy to be sceptical, the world body an easy target
Most subscribed to it when we were feeling down after WW2.
It is easy to be sceptical of Bush’s and his sycophantic followers “freedom” a tyrant shall demise etc.
Democracy for all, meaning ?
Take your pick amongst the variants.
An idea of the UN was to have all members sharing and variously chairing committees.
That is it was an attempt at representing all with the idea that discussion might derive a solution which hopefully was not too enfeebled.
Having in order to have enough consensus to form the organisation some nations with extra power.
Which of course they used in pursuit of the welfare of all people.
Impossible? Probably but did anyone really try.?
Many writers would say not really lots of spin and words of great profundity but---?
Okay a crazy idea about as crazy as supposing that if all people abided the precepts of their religion the world would be a better place. Just like the UN the world stage of holy endeavour is full of the kind of oddities your refer to in the UN.
America has been subscribing for some time for a return to government by the strong (and principled) carrying out their exceptional task of providing leadership. As pre WW!?
Vietnam
Yugoslavia
Afghanistan
Iraq
Truthful indeed non partisan truly earnest honest endeavour self less zeal etc Much spin!

So okay we humans appear incapable of devising a scheme though attempts at improving the UN are underway, likely as always to be blocked by special interests and nationalism, but what alternative are you offering?
What do you expect of our leaders our foreign office people? They ignored any and all calls not to go into Kuwait, Iraq etc. They did not go to partake of their wars except later to engage their national corporations.
Thought nothing of strutting the world stage mouthing simplicities , diversions if not down right lies.
So what are you offering? Sceptics to be really useful needs to offer solutions as well as positional plays.