End of civilisation

The end of civilisation has come and it seems the world was too quick in forgetting the lessons of the two World Wars and disasasters such as the Panama.
By enacting the United Nations Organisation after the Second World War, there seemed to have been a consensus among the world's emerging powers that law and order was the only way towards peace and that a higher body was needed as a mediator between countries on international level, the exact role that the League of Nations had failed.
The exact failures of the League of Nations are now plagueing its relative, the UN. The same way the members of the League acted on interest rather than on the laws and regulations they had retified, now the UN members propagate. Its is no wonder that disasters such as the Rwanda massacre happen under the watchful eye of this organisation when countries such as US or France first take into consideration the profit from influence or weapons trade.
But probably the worst case that shows the failures of UN as an international mediation body is the creation of Israel. In 1948, when Israel was declared, nobody spoke out and after the first row of Israel - Arab wars, Israel received recognition as a state with borders drawn by UN in the Partition Act.
Taking advantage of sponsorships from Europe and US, Israel grew fast and soon began expanding, paying no attention to its neightbours or the UN who refrained from action, satisfied with enacting resolution after resolution, just like the League of Nations before it, less than potent in enforcing its decisions. What we have left from that time are over 700 of the General Assembly's resolutions asking Israel to stop the persecution of its arab population, renounce the service of terrorists group Irgun and Lehi, stop territorial expansion and return properties to expropriated arab inhabitants. Then there are over 400 of the Security Council's resolutions, again not enforced. Of course Israel ignored them and went on, blatantly ignoring international laws and the Geneva Convention. Any voice that dared to speak out against injustice was promptly dismissed with an accusation of antisemitism.
Today, the world reaps what's been sown 68 years ago. Two countries that seem to be above the law and the concept of human rights. Two countries that put dreams of conquest above values such as life or peace. These countries are, obviously, US and Israel.
The first gave us proof of this in 1991, the beginning of its war against Iraq. The destruction laid against a country whose only fault was that it chose to be paid in euros instead of dollars and that refused for a while to export oil to US in protest against US interference in arab politics. A country that never threatened the US or ever developed military capability against US. Yet that country burned and is still burning now with internal turmoil fueled by US' decision to break it apart piece by piece. The war was patched with the distruction of the Geneva Convention, massacres and rapes by US military, leaving millions of Iraqis dead and many others rotting in US prisons around the world, neither charged, not prosecuted. Just interrogated for years.

Israel in the meantime has went a long way in the same direction: breaking down the Middle East. After two uprisings from the arab population, Arial Sharon (yes, the guy responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacres) finally saw the solution. Now Ghaza is the world's largest prison and even has a wall being built around it. All crossings are controlled by Israel, not to mention the airspace. Arab officials aren't allowed to travel outside, only those who have a pass issued by Israel. At the same time, Israel is allowed to kill as it pleases under various pretexts. The first is the famous 'buffer zone', a several kilometers area inside Ghaza that's constatly sweeped by Israel tanks and artillery, officially ment to prevent illegal border crossing. In practice, it's a land grab by Israel, despite the fact people own land there and there are even a few farms. Of course, those who dare go out and work in their garden, just die. Despite all the evidence and promises of inquiries, thousands of recorded cases of bombings, shootings and rape by Israel military against arabs never produced a single conviction.
Today we witness another act of the allmighty entity, the distruction of yet another arab state. The official pretext of recovering two Israeli soldiers is just ludicrous as Israel itself keeps hundreds of lebanese citizens in jails, some for the only guilt of having land near the border. But this seems enough for Israel to take power in their own hands and sistematically massacre the lebanese populace. For some this word might seem harsh but it's a fact that until this weekend no asset of Israel's arch-enemy Hizb'Allah was targeted, only civilians.

Of course, UN is as always reluctant to take any action. Perhaps Sharon was right claiming a few years ago (on radio) that Israel own too much of US to fear it. But even if it wasn't the case, Israel has nothing to fear. The only european powers that are in a position to do anything are France and Russia, but any action by Russia will be countered by US, who has a direct interest in the conflict to go on (as it might draw Iran into it and Israel combined with US will surely break the arab world) while France doesn't have the capability to go in alone. Given all this, we have ruled out any UN participant who could actually act in this crisis.
Other might include Spain, but Spain has lost the last train to being an international political presence. Italy has no interest in standing up to US and Israel or taming down the Middle East crisis, even more since much of its oil and natural gases come from Russia.
So we are left with China. China has yet to take a firm stance in the matter but it's doubtful it will ever take one since for China it would do better to trade Lebanon in order to protect North Korea and have the coreean arsenal as an ally in case the US/UK/Israel troika will continue to expand towards East.

Therefore, UN has failed. Utterly. Completely. And with it the last hope for civilisation. What we're left with is the troika that has become the new Inquisition, surround by a propaganda machine led by CNN that has mission to offer a single-sided view, that of the Inquisition.

So where are we heading, going like this? Is the world really incapable of multiculturalism? Why can't civilisations live together in peace? Why security for oneself means that the other has to vanish, has to suffer, has to give up? Will the world ever give up the militaristic way of thinking ?