The United Nations and Cognitive Dissonance

November 21, 2018 By Michael Curtis

The unholy war against the State of Israel never stops. Most nations in the world in discussing Israel suffer from mental disorder or discomfort, from cognitive dissonance, trying to hold two or more contradictory beliefs, both condemnation of Israel and tolerance or support of Palestinian violence, along with calls for a peaceful settlement.

Nowhere is this more evident than in the activities and personnel of the United Nations, the world's major international organization, which has been hijacked for purposes contradictory to its declared objectives of promoting and securing international cooperation and maintaining international order.

The exhibition on display in the visitor's lobby in the headquarters of the United Nations in New York City presents images of seventy years of the struggle for Palestinian human rights, lost in the nakba, catastrophe, the creation of Israel. In addition, the UN General Assembly on November 29, 2018, will commemorate, as it has done since 1978, the Annual Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people, pursuant to the Resolution of December 2, 1977, A/RES/32/40, marking the adoption of the UNGA Resolution 181 (11) of November 29, 1947, which called for partition of the disputed territory, with Jerusalem having special status. The fundamental irony in all this that the Arabs refused, while Israel accepted, that 1947 Resolution to create a Palestinian state at that time............ Read more