The UN lost its credibility when it started appointing countries like Libya and China to “human rights commissions.” It’s long past time we got the US out of the UN, and the UN out of the US. Let them set up shop somewhere like Nairobi where they’re still relevant.

As for the situation in Israel, in my mind the Palestinians in Israel are exactly like the Catholics in northern Ireland: yes, they were the original victims, but they’ve long since thrown away that moral high ground by attacking noncombatants, and the only “road map” that either place needs is for someone to compel a complete and permanent stop to the fighting, NOW, even if it means preserving an unfair division of land.

I am not yet sure whether some Muslims can still be trusted to make a peace treaty and keep it, but there are certainly quite a few who can’t, and the world needs to take that fact into account when assigning blame for any incidents like this one.