This is rich. I have long believed that the United Nations has outlived any usefulness that they may have once had, but this takes the cake. I am reminded of an old farmer in the Michigan thumb who has had a billboard in one of his fields along side the road that reads:

Get us out of the United Nations NOW!

The billboard has been there since at least the 1980’s (maybe longer.) I know it was there at the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, because the New York Times featured it in an article about the ‘terrorist groups’ in rural Michigan. It was part of their coverage of Terry Nichols. His brother had a farm five miles down the road from where my mother was living at the time. I passed the billboard many times when traveling to visit my mother, and it had nothing to do with terrorists. The last time I saw it was in 2012, and it is probably still there.

RedState reports:

Following the deadliest attack on Jews since the Holocaust, the Gaza Strip now faces the full wrath of the Israeli military. But despite starting the conflict by raping, torturing, and murdering people in the streets (and filming it) as part of a planned invasion of Israel, Palestinian leaders are falling back on an old mainstay: Begging the United Nations for help.

In a call with U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Abbas reportedly asked the U.N. to “immediately intervene” to stop the ongoing “Israeli aggression,” Palestinian news agency WAFA reported Monday night.

Abbas urged Guterres and the U.N. to “carry out its duties recognized by international legitimacy and provide international protection for the Palestinian people,” WAFA reported.

Abbas’s request comes after Israel’s defense minister ordered a “complete siege” on the Gaza Strip as Israel ramps up its counteroffensive against Palestinian militant group Hamas, which launched a deadly incursion into Israel over the weekend.

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What the Palestinian leadership wants is to be able to carry out grotesque terrorism and then call a time-out just before the total destruction of its offensive capabilities. They have gotten so used to the international community demanding “proportional” responses that they expect it to happen every time.

And it looks like that might happen. The first official UN response to the conflict was a moment of silence for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and those who suffered violence “elsewhere.”

The UN Human Rights Council couldn’t even bring itself to utter the name “Israel” during its acknowledgment of the violence even though more Israelis have been killed (to this point), and it was the Palestinians who were the aggressors. It’s absurd, and it’s another reason the UN serves no purpose whatsoever.

A reminder of what happened at just one location: