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Ban Ki Moon, Whatever it is You’re Trying to Do – Please Stop.

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October 20, 2015

Yesterday, we got a surprising news alert – The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki Moon, will stop by for a surprise visit to Israel. After almost three weeks of living under terror threats,“>As quoted on The Times of Israel, Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, said: “I expect the secretary general to come out with a clear call against the incitement to violence of the Palestinian Authority.” This, sadly, did not happen.  Ban released a video addressing Israelis and Palestinians about what he called “the dangerous escalation in violence across the occupied Palestinian territories and Israel and especially in Jerusalem.”

“I am dismayed – as we all should be – when I see young people, children, picking up weapons and seeking to kill. Violence will only undermine the legitimate Palestinian aspirations for statehood and the longing of Israelis for security…I know your hopes for peace have been dashed countless times. You are angry at the continued occupation and expansion of settlements. Many of you are disappointed in your leaders and in us, the international community, because of our inability to end this conflict.”

At first glance, this seems like a peaceful message, coming from an impartial person who only wants peace and quiet in the Middle East. At a second and third read, put together with his “serious review” last week, where he have claimed to find “the apparent excessive use of force by Israeli security forces” to be “troubling,” we get another disturbing case of anti-Israel incitement. The kind that leads to more terrorism, and to deaths of young Palestinians, who are “>The UN has a very clear anti-Israel agenda, with Israel being the most condemned country by the United Nations Human Rights Council. Not China, not Iran, and not even North Korea. Just last summer, only several days after it was discovered that Hamas had turned an UNRA school in Gaza into a terror cell, Ban Ki Moon himself condemn Israel for attacking it, and returned the missiles found in the school to Hamas. If that's not enough, Israel is being condemned and even being called a “war criminal” for similar actions done by other armies, including the US Army, in Iraq, Iran and Syria.

But unlike the UN's blunt bias, Ban Ki Moon himself attempts to hide his. Well, guess what, Mr. Ban – your bias is starting to show. When sending an insightful message, blaming the “Israeli Occupation” for the terror attacks against Israeli Jews, Ban Ki Moon ignores the real problem – deep networks of Islamic terrorists and their supporters, spending days and nights educating young children to kill as many Jews as possible and win glory in the afterlife. They receive messages from the media, from their families, from their schools and from their peers, about the “poisonous” western society and the “Zionist devil,” with a religious Islamic society being the best and only solution.

This is what leads to terror attacks, in Israel, in France, in the US and so on. But blaming it on the “Israeli occupation” is much easier than facing the worrying problem of rising Islamic terrorism, brainwashing more and more young Muslim (and non-Muslim) children. 

Thing is, while the western media easily ignore their responsibility to their consumers, providing bluntly biased reports, UN officials, the UN Secretary General specifically, simply cannot afford doing it. They're here to decrease chances of war, but with ignoring the real problem, they only lead the world into a new war, of extreme Islam against The West.

If that's not enough, there is so much wrongdoing in the world, and the United Nations, as an organization, must put itself back on track before it will completely lose all legitimacy.

Besides the Palestinians who thrive for a country of their own, there are the people of Syria, where a civil war has taken the lives of 170,000 so far. Since 2011, their streets are colored in blood red, and the UN is nowhere to be found. In Iraq, the ISIS has been executing Christians, taking over the country and doing as it pleases, and the UN stands aside. In Gaza, Hamas is spending money donated by countries and organizations worldwide on underground terror tunnels instead of its people's welfare, launching rockets from hospitals and schools and crowded neighborhoods – and the UN looks the other way. What about the rise of far-right movements in Europe, and the anti-Semitic violent actions against Jews there? Not to mention the famine in Africa aside the fast-pace spread of the Ebola virus there.

Ban Ki Moon's true intentions will probably forever be hidden from us. But whether he intends to strip Israel down from its global legitimacy, or to truly help making peace in the Middle East but doing so by blaming Israel for the Palestinian terrorism – someone needs to tell him he is only making things worse for the world.

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