Yes, indeed, and what a sad excuse of a foreign minister for
a country which has long strongly supported the UN.
But of course his purposes are other than what they might
seem from his obtuse words.
His first purpose, always and everywhere, is to support the
United States, echoing and mimicking its prejudices and excesses.
Recall, it was the “Baird faction” in the United States that
actually violated treaty obligations to refuse paying UN dues for a long period
of time.
And it has always been the United States that tries
manipulating what it wants out of the UN, giving American actions in foreign
policy the plausibility of world support,
But when it fails to achieve that support from the UN, as in
its infernal plots in Syria or its war crimes in Iraq, it grabs up its briefing
books and runs home yelling about backward forces and lack of American values.
Baird is simply a pipsqueak version of the same thing, and
he behaves in this appalling way to gain whatever little nods of approval he
may get from the people really in charge of every decision made in his office.
The second purpose is, always and everywhere, to be
blubbering support for Israel's outrageous behavior.
Israel has, and has long had, utter contempt for the UN.
Israel's attitude is actually bitterly ironic, because
Israeli leaders love to quote the various events in the past which supposedly
legitimate their current situation, UN actions being amongst them.
But, at the same time, Israel hates the UN for all its past
resolutions holding Israel responsible for acts it doesn't want to be
responsible for.
In effect, Israel's attitude is the same as that of the
United States towards the UN: it's just fine if it gives me what I want, and it
is hateful when it doesn't.
Precisely the attitude of a bully, one with no respect for
genuine democratic values or individual rights.
And John Baird is in eager pursuit of the kind of
campaign-finance support for his party that always comes from the Israeli lobby
when a leader appears to be putting Israel's interests on a par with, or even
sometimes beyond, those of your own
country.
