Down the Rabbit Hole...or is it, THE TWILIGHT ZONE

Where is the United Nations in all this? Where is their "moral compass?"(-as Dennis Prager would say). Oh, here it is; seems they dropped it. I think it's irreparable:
3 January 2009 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his deep concern over Israel's launch of a ground operation into Gaza today, with the Security Council calling an emergency meeting to discuss the situation.

Mr. Ban expressed his extreme disappointment to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

“He is convinced and alarmed that this escalation will inevitably increase the already heavy suffering of the affected civilian populations,” according to a statement issued by the Secretary-General''s spokesperson. “He called for an immediate end to the ground operation, and asked that Israel do all possible to ensure the protection of civilians and that humanitarian assistance is able to reach those in need.”

All I hear the U.N. spouting is anti-Israel rhetoric. Where is the protest of the Hamas' (and the Palestinian Fatah--it's across the board, a cultural phenomenon) abuse of children?

And where are those bleeding-heart liberals protesting the religion of peace raising children in the culture of death, to be murderers and suicide (read: homicide) bombers?

Seems to be a bit one-sided to me: condemn the JEWS, condemn ISRAEL. Everybody else's actions are 'kosher.'

Welcome to our alternate universe, where black is white, up is down, and evil is good. I'm half expecting Rod Serling to introduce the next episode. Alice in Wonderland's world couldn't have been any curiouser.






Remember this cartoon? It's the situation in a nutshell. Cultural and moral equivalence? Which do you support?






We should seriously think about what Rod Serling said, in his closing narration of the Twilight Zone episode The Obsolete Man (emphasis mine) :
The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete, but so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man, that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for mankind—in the Twilight Zone.
Maybe it is time. . .



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Comments

Batya said…
"moral compass?"
You jest. They've always been against us.
9:27 AM
Lady-Light said…
Batya: Duh. My bad. I stand (& sit) corrected. No moral compass. Never was. Doesn't look like there ever will be.
11:37 PM
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