My letter to President Trump
Arutz Sheva ^ | 23/11/24 | Prof. Phyllis Chesler
Posted on 11/23/2024 1:11:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5
Dear President Trump:
Please, please, oh pretty please--pull America out of the United Nations. Tell them to take their hypocrisy, incompetence, corruption, and Jew-hatred, to the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland or to the golden deserts of Qatar. Maybe they can house their headquarters more appropriately in Afghanistan or Pakistan.
Let the anti-Western, anti-Israel, and anti-democracy tyrannies pay their own way. Perhaps Europe can either increase their funding for the UN--or pull out as well.
I can think of many better uses for the 17-18 acres in the luxe Turtle Bay neighborhood of Manhattan, right on the East River, that the UN headquarters currently occupies. I bet you can too.
I know that the UN is a colorful place that draws, for example, many women of many colors, who are often wearing colorful, native dress. Women come there because they hope to meet other women like themselves, or in the hope of finding employment. These are the members of NGOs which have absolutely no power whatsoever. But coming to Manhattan and speaking there looks good on their resumes, and it is also a way for them to mix with glamorized folk, get invited to yet another conference, impress their families.
Oh, what a good idea the UN once was! Read Australian-American, Shirley Hazzard, on how it had already failed its mission by the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Read her excellent short stories, based on her time as a clerical employee at the UN ("People in Glass Houses), and her superb non-fiction titles about the UN: "Defeat of an Ideal" (1973) and "Countenance of Truth" (1990).
I once also worked at the UN and saw, with my own naked eyeball, the sexual harassment and even rape that was rampant among some high-ranking employers.....
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TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs; US: New York; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: outof; realestate; un; us
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What she said.
1 posted on 11/23/2024 1:11:09 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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