United Nations And The New Age - Way of Life Literature

the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, stood anddelivered the following words of defiance:“The United States rises to declare before the GeneralAssembly of the United Nations, and before the world,that it does not acknowledge, it will not abide by, it willnever acquiesce in this infamous act” (Meisler, p. 215).One of the U.N. Secretary-Generals, Kurt Waldheim, wasa former Nazi German officer who committed crimesagainst the Jews and was listed by the War CrimesCommission as a war criminal. The information about hispast did not become public until after his term asSecretary-General, but it is not surprising that Waldheimcondemned Israel’s dramatic rescue of Jewish hostages inEntebbe in 1976. He also was at the helm when theUnited Nations passed the “Zionism Is Racism”resolution.HypocrisyThe United Nation’s gross hypocrisy has also beendocumented many times. For example, throughout the1970s and 1980s, it issued annual resolutionscondemning South Africa for its apartheid policies, whilecompletely ignoring Burundi’s official slaughter ofbetween one hundred thousand and two hundredthousand Hutus and Uganda’s brutality toward Ugandans19