The UN really, truly hates Israel (just one more reason for us to get out of the useless UN but that's for another column). That malign menagerie of tin pot dictators, tribal thugs, and progressive globalist bureaucrats most resembling, as one wag put it, the bar scene in "Star Wars," hates Israel because so many of its individual member states hate Israel. And they, in turn, hate Israel for one of two reasons.

First, there are many Muslim countries which have made it their policy to use the Palestinians as pawns and as distractions from the barbarism of their own despotic governments. They've been playing that sick little game since they first discovered the Palestinians in 1967.

It is telling that there were no cries for an independent Palestinian state from 1948-67 when much of the "occupied" land was part of Jordan. The UN never once censured Jordan for this and there were no demands for a "two-state solution" during that nearly 20-year period. Only after Israel secured the land following the 1967 war did we begin hearing self-serving drivel about the grave injustice done to the Palestinian people by not allowing them a state of their own.

Second, there are non-Muslim countries with progressive political structures which let them wallow in guilt-ridden, anti-Semitic, multi-culturalism. Oh, and they have oil deals with the sheiks.

Lately, the anti-Israel hue and cry have focused on Israeli settlements. These always are called "illegal" and the areas in which they are being constructed are called "occupied territories." The critics simply don't care that the land in question is Israeli land by virtue of the fact that that beleaguered nation, against all the odds, has managed, several times, to defend itself against Arab aggression successfully. Those places are "occupied territory" about like Texas is occupied by the United States or Alsace-Lorraine is occupied by France. They are Israeli land, paid for in blood.

Not long ago, the Washington Post wrote that President Obama (now exPresident Obama, oh joyful thought!) believes that the disputed Israeli settlements are "a key impediment to a peace deal." But in fact, there is one, and only one, "impediment to a peace deal" in that part of the world. That impediment is Islam; or, more specifically, the unwillingness, even inability, of Muslim jihadists to simply stop working toward another Final Solution.

And that is exactly what it would be. Hamas jihadist-in-chief Mahmoud Abbas once said, "In a final resolution, we would not see the presence of a single Israeli – soldier or civilian – on our lands." Imagine the indignant howls we would hear from Muslims and American progressives alike if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ever said that about Arabs.

Netanyahu, however, did once say, "If the Arabs put down their arms, there will be no war. If the Israelis lay down their arms, there will be no Israel." And he was absolutely right.

Obama's contribution to this mess was his despicable decision to have Secretary of State John Kerry (D-Iran), link arms with terrorists and produce a UN resolution declaring the settlements to be illegal and condemning Israel for them. Then he pretended to be neutral by having the US delegation abstain from the vote. Traditionally, we have vetoed these absurd resolutions; this time we wrote one. But Nobel Peace Prize winner Obama had a chance to slap our strategically in the face one last time before his departure. He just couldn't pass it up.

So, for the 63rd time in the last ten years, the UN has condemned Israel for … well, in fact, for nothing more than existing. Take a look at this two-minute video in which Netanyahu presents a clear statement on the absurdity of this latest UN action.

http://www.israelvideonetwork.com/pm-netanyahu-just-rocked-the-world-in-this-2-minute-speech/

You know, it really is a shame that Benjamin Netanyahu cannot be our president. Maybe we can find a way to get him a Hawaiian birth certificate.