UN ineffectiveness - Allowing tyranny to prevail

The United Nations Security Council yesterday called for an immediate end to hostilities in Gaza as the Palestinian death toll passed 500.

UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon, who is in the Middle East, condemned the killings as an “atrocious action” and called for an immediate end to the fighting.

It is another, ongoing tragedy of our world that those pleas will be, as they always are, blithely ignored — just as an identical plea made on July 12 was. Israel will continue its campaign of murder and terror and, unfortunately, the legitimacy and authority of the UN will be undermined again. The organisation set up to try to maintain world peace will be seen as utterly ineffective.