Could I care less about the UN?

Again, Liberal hand-wringing on CBC has escalated into an anxiety attack over this momentous event.  Rex Murphy at the National Post got it right "the UN has nothing over us".  And even better:

If Michael Ignatieff has the power to work his dominion over the combined nations of the world — to bend China, the Arab bloc, Latin America and Africa to his imperious will — why oh why he is wasting his time running around the parochial sandbox with Stephen Harper in Ottawa?

David Frum continues with this line of thinking today by noting that we seem to have invented a new Olympic Event - Solo Boxing.    As he points out - there was no "conspiracy" against Canada.  If the Americans have been unsuccessful at the UN on our account, they have been just as hapless for themselves.  And there is the pity.

Peace Crime!

George JONAS in the National Post has presented what I consider the final word on these outrageous charges made by the left against Israel. Among his main points:

• Judge GOLDSTONE's report was prepared by UN Human Rights Council - who's sterling members include Libya, Zimbabwe, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia!
• GOLDSTONE parrots the Arab allegations that Israel's defensive actions against Gaza in January 2009 was “a deliberately disproportionate attack designed to punish, humiliate and terrorize a civilian population, radically diminish its local economic capacity both to work and to provide for itself and to force upon it an ever-increasing sense of dependency and vulnerability.”
• No mention of what constitutes "a proportionate response" when one is being terrorized by "a belligerent intent on your destruction".
• where the international doctrine of "proportionality" existed before being brought up in his report (it didn't).
  
• failure to distinguish between aggressor and self-defense, ignoring the right and obligation of a state to stop rocket and mortar fire from reaching it's citizens and their children.
  
• if stopping rocket-launchers that target civilians is a war-crime, then criminalizing self-defense is a "peace crime".
• GOLDSTONE threatens to refer Israel's leaders to the International Criminal Court unless they investigate and punish some scapegoats. JONAS reminds us that Canada is a signatory to this UN legislation.
  

How disgusting.

[Update: This continues with the nattering opponents commentary are graciously given the space to hang themselves. Towit: Judy REBICK, Naomi KLEIN and Johanathon KAY]