Egozi’s Fury – UN Security Council

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How many additional reasons would it take to shut the UN down, to have the New York high rise turned into a luxury hotel or office tower? Each dollar poured into this organization is a waste and an insult to intelligence.

Each day offers proof of this. Here’s the latest one, from only last week.

The UN Security Council issued a statement last week, condemning the death of a Spanish observer from UNIFIL, in the framework of the incident in Israel’s northern border. Its announcement did not refer at all to the death of two IDF soldiers from Hezbollah fire. No, not even a word about that. The reason the Security Council did not censure Hezbollah was the concern by some council members, including Arab countries, that this would cause a political crisis in Lebanon. Did you hear that? These are the considerations guiding the members of the UN Security Council. Do not confuse them with the facts.

Israel reacted strongly to the Council’s refusal to refer to Hezbollah’s opening fire on IDF soldiers, and said the Council’s statement amounted to surrender to terror. This too was redundant. Everyone knows the UN has no value. Another Israeli reaction or one less comment won’t change that fact.

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The disgrace, the shameful position, this indescribable state of Israeli Police’s top echelon, has been the subject of countless words. Nearly the entire organization’s top leadership is gone, or in the processes of leaving, due to suspicions of either sexual misconduct, offences, even, or breach of trust.

So now, they are looking for a new candidates to replace the incumbent Chief Commissioner as well as new commissioners. Should these candidates come from within the ranks of the police, this would not amount to a real solution.

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The next Police Chief Commissioner should be appointed from outside the police. Someone with proven leadership abilities, someone who ’owes’ no one in Israeli police anything, and who can give it a proper shake up.

There are those who claim an outsider would not be familiar with the workings of the police. True. Nevertheless, if you have an experience police officer shadow the new Police Commissioner, he or she will learn the ropes.

Only such a person, coming from the outside – say, a former IDF general with proven leadership record – could pull the police from its current mire, along with the bad reputation it is currently plagued by.

In many countries, it is customary to appoint civilians to head the police. Israel should appoint a former senior IDF officer.

The same applies to the position of police chiefs.

Only such a move could rebuild the public’s trust in the police.

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What else would it take for Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to realize two things? First, that his planned speech before the US Congress would not bring a halt to Iran’s nuclear program. Secondly – that his speech could conversely hurt Israel considerably, even among its friends in DC.

So why won’t he cancel? It is a matter of saving face? Is he being obstinate, or obtuse? I leave the reason to you. In this case, the damage far exceeds any benefit. The speech would in no way prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power within a few years. No, not a “nuclear threshold nation”, as some experts claim. Rather, Iran will have its own nuclear arsenal, which would pose a threat to Israel and the world at large. A dumb and oblivious world certainly deserves this menace.