Looks like I have a reader - Claude. He left a comment to my first blog. Are you French, Claude? Either that or Belgian, or a French-speaking person residing in some other European country. You said the EU has power within the UN. This may be true, but the UN has only helped the world in one area - increasing AIDS education. Aside from that, the UN has done nothing besides act as a forum for countries big and small, important and unimportant, democratic and tyrannical, just and unjust to talk, talk and talk some more. Since the creation of the UN, this worthless organization has done NOTHING about dozens of brutal, genocidal wars that have been happening in Africa. The UN was created to prevent war, yet it has watched Africa be a warzone for the last 40 years, ever since the European colonial powers left the Africans to their own affairs. That's just one failing. Another is the recently discovered corruption in the oil-for-food program, where UN officials pocketed billions of dollars. Of course, since the UN is investigating itself, I can assure you that this stolen money will never be recovered.

As regards Israel, the UN has passed hundreds of resolutions condemning Israel and none condemning the Arabs. This is because there are over 30 Moslem countries in the world, and they can team up to trash Israel whenever they feel like it. The UN has never condemned Arab terrorism against Israeli civilians and it has never condemned the Arabs for starting the 1948, the 1967 and the 1973 wars. The UN has never condemned Hizbollah's attacks on Northern Israel that precipitated Israel's invasion of Lebanon, but were ever so quick to condemn the invasion itself, even though only a mental midget would not understand Israel's intrusion into Lebanon as self-defensive. The UN has never condemned the PLO as a terrorist entity, and of course it has never declared any of the avowedly and admittedly murderous Arab organizations as terrorist. This is such a glaringly obvious double-standard, that to look upon the UN as impartial and fair is nothing short of idiotic. Israel is viewed as the aggressor and the Arabs as innocent victims. In the eyes of the Europeans, who almost exclusively support the Islamic viewpoint in the UN, Israel nothing more than a fascist state. In reality, Israel is the Middle East's only democracy and Arab citizens of Israel enjoy the highest standard of living and the most political rights of any Arabs in the entire Middle East. Not only that, but Israeli Arabs aren't even required to abide by the obligations that Jewish Israelis have to undertake. The most important of these is military service. In fact, surveys done by multiple organizations show that Israeli Arabs consciously choose to stay in Israel and prefer Israel to any of the Arab countries. You can do the research yourself folks, just use Google.

Soon the French, the Germans, the Belgians, the Italians and others in the EU will feel the wrath of Arab terror. Over the years, the Europeans will realize that Israel is defending itself against a terrible form of warfare and condemning Israel is indicative of short-sightedness and good dose of utter stupidity, mixed in with a bit of the standard anti-semitism.

As for Claude's comments that most Jews are greedy and concerned with the accumulation of wealth, that's just typical anti-semitism. Some Jews are greedy, but so are a percentage of people in every culture and religion. The capitalist instinct depends on an individual's personality, not on his nationality. It would be nice if the next person to leave a comment on my blog did not harbor stereotypically anti-semitic notions. But in 2005, with Israel scaring the Arabs with its infinitely superior military and annoying the Europeans with its very existance, maybe anti-semitism is so prevalent that I may be asking for too much.