In today’s news, I read that there is a kind of a union of Arab and non-Arab nations expressed in a voting bloc in the United Nations.  This entity is composed of faith-based Islamic lands. It is a formidable pressure group in the United Nations, whose capitol is located on the East side of New York City.  It is a brooding presence and, is perhaps, a dominant force in the United Nations.  It is clear that the United Nations formed out of the forces that ended World War II does not exist today, was not, and is not able to prevent war.  As a democratically inspired coalition against Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo, the UN urged participation of other existing nations and accepted newly created ones over the years as they broke away from former configurations of power.  As it is now, not fully democratic nations in the UN far outnumber the democratic ones and the Islamic bloc directs terrorist plots according to its own agenda of war against Israel and obstruction against the U.S.

I consider myself an advocate of the UN and a supporter of the idea of a World Federation of Nations as precursor to a real United States of the World.  It is good that nations act on their own behalf and join in efforts to sway other non-aligned states to follow their lead.  An Arab League still exists and is a prime example of nationalistic and religious fervor against the tide of democracy to sway western nations against Israel and the United States.  The inheritors of the Ottoman Empire, mostly disunited shells of once vaunted Islamic masters of regions and a continental size empire, are present and working in the United States – on the East side of New York City. The Islamic Jihad and Hamas may not have representatives in the UN but their ideas are represented and defended by current members of that old and needy organization.  The UN really needs redefinition.

The Islamic bloc cannot be counted upon to accept the United States as the de facto leader among the nations of the world.  There is too much history, too much umbrage and too much nursing of revenge for Palestine, Afghanistan, Somalia and now, Iraq. The wounds to Islamic pride are raw and festering and the non-Muslim world waits for cues from nations sitting on a sea of oil. Many have gone to extremes in throwing support over to that bloc. A large sector of poor non-aligned nations go along with the designation of the U.S. as the great Satan that supports the lesser Satan, Israel.  Throw in the Jews of the world and stir in anti-Semitism and the democracy that exists in the State of Israel and you have the line-up in an on-going conflict.

I think the UN with its Islamic obstructionists does not think there is any thing wrong with this picture.  It is time to give the UN a Constitution that will provide equal representation of nations and of all the peoples of the world and firmly suppress all faith-based agendas.