Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West [Hardcover]

Alex Grobman (Author)

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Publication Date: November 17, 2006

Rising from the ruins of World War II, Israel and the United Nations have been on a collision course ever since, as radical Islam, left wing agendas, and European meddling have undermined democratic efforts to topple totalitarianism. In a fascinating bit of research that doubles as critical analysis and gripping narrative, Alex Grobman shines a light on the radical agenda of the United Nations to weaken Israel s security, foment anti Semitism, and by extension, hurt the Jewish state s chief ally, the United States. Grobman traces the UN's efforts to coddle radical regimes, and shows in shocking detail the harmful effects of the infamous Zionism equals Racism resolution that put air under the wings of terrorists threatening Western values.

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Grobman's work is both invaluable and definitive. His excellent research, clear writing style, and use of photos make the work easy to follow. His argument is balanced and therefore forceful. The United Nations is the largest Naked Emperor of our time. It is a union of dictatorships against democracies, an institution in which mediocrity and bureaucracy triumph over genius and creativity, and where issues are not diplomatically resolved but rather fomented and allowed to fester. I recognize Grobman's United Nations because once I worked there. Human rights violations of every kind are allowed to flourish under its aegis, both at Turtle Bay and in the world at large. The UN has proved ineffective in every single area including that of genocide and preventable disease save one. Its single (diabolical) accomplishment has been in legalizing and internationalizing Jew hatred. Grobman makes this very clear. This work is an essential weapon in the cultural war against propaganda and Big Lies that currently dominate university life in the West. Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D. Author, The New Anti-Semitism and The Death of Feminism --Phyllis Chesler, Ph.D.

"This is the most comprehensive and informative assessment of Zionism=Racism I have seen. May it enlighten a naive and insufficiently Jewishly educated student constituency." Shoshana Cardin, Former President Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, Former President of JTA and Former Vice Chairman of United Jewish Communities and United Jewish Appeal. "Dr. Alex Grobman's book, Nations United, presents historical and intellectual analyses of a pivotal moment in Jewish, Israeli, and world history as impacted by the United Nations. We learn why the ideals of Zionism are now interpreted as racism throughout much of the world. Jews and Christians, students and scholars, thinking people of all ethnic groups, religions and moral perspectives will now understand how pure ideals can be made derogatory. This is a book that you will want to read!" Marlene Post, President, Hadassah International; Chair, birthright Israel North America; Past National President, Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America --Marlene Post, President, Hadassah International

Fact by fact, Nations United builds an irrefutable case against the UN for disseminating virulent antisemitism aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel. By explaining each stage in the development of this process, Dr. Grobman shows us how lies and half-truths can once again cause the destruction of the Jewish people. For those who want to understand why Israel finds little support from the rest of the world, and to refute the Left's prevarications and distortions about Israel, you will find this book indispensable. Gary Bauer, president of American Values --Gary Bauer, president of American Values

About the Author

Alex Grobman is an historian with an MA and Ph.D. in contemporary Jewish history from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is president of the Institute for Contemporary Jewish Life, a think tank dealing with historical and contemporary issues affecting the Jewish community. He is a contributing editor for Together, a publication of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants. He is a member of the academic board of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies and a contributor to the Encyclopedia Judaica and the Partisan website. Dr. Grobman established the first Holocaust center in the U.S. under the auspices of a Jewish Federation in St. Louis, Missouri and served as its first director. He also served as director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angles where he was the founding editor-in chief of the Simon Wiesenthal Annual, the first serial publication in the United States focusing on the scholarly study of the Holocaust. Dr. Grobman edited Genocide: Critical Issues of the Holocaust, a companion to the Center's Academy Award winning film Genocide. The book can be found on the Simon Wiesenthal Center website. Dr. Grobman is the author of Rekindling the Flame: American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors of European Jewry, 1944-1948, and editor of In Defense of the Survivors: The Letters and Documents of Oscar A. Mintzer AJDC Legal Advisor, Germany, 1945-46. His book with Michael Shermer, Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It? was published by University of California Press in Berkeley in 2000. In 2002, it was published in Italian and in paperback. He has also edited three guides for educators: Anne Frank in Historical Perspective, Those Who Dared: Rescuers and Rescued, and a guide to Schindler's List. "Holocaust Denial: A Global Survey - 2003, 2004, and 2005" were written with Dr. Raphael Medoff. In April 2004, he and Rabbi Jack Bemporad, Professor of Interreli

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Balfour Books; imprint (November 17, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892216743
• ISBN-13: 978-0892216741
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars United Abominations, October 24, 2007

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This review is from: Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West (Hardcover)

This well-researched work chronicles the founding of the United Nations, its role in the recognition of Israel in 1948 and the subsequent history of relations between the two. Unfortunately the world body's attitude towards Israel started to deteriorate soon afterward as Grobman's analysis reveals. This change was brought about by the USSR in alliance with Arab states, later joined by the so-called Non-Aligned block of nations. The book explores the origins and development of the transformation in detail.

The UN became a hotbed of Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism; this strategy culminated in the disgusting 1975 resolution equating Zionism with racism. Although the US finally managed to have it revoked in 1991, the sinister forces behind it were not stopped by the end of the Cold War. The hostility towards Israel and the West did not cease and these agendas are more active than ever, with a majority of member states issuing an unending stream of condemnations against Israel while ignoring the murderous acts of terrorist groups and criminal states.

One of its more loathsome "achievements" was the World Conference Against Racism, the unrestrained Anti-Israel hate-fest which took place in Durban in 2001. The author shows that the organization thrives on Antisemitism while remaining willfully blind to atrocities in places like Rwanda, Chechnya and Darfur. It is obsessed with the deligitimization of the Jewish State and continues to disseminate anti-US and anti-Israel propaganda through its plethora of agencies and associated non-governmental organizations.

The book provides answers on why the UN has failed so miserably with almost every single crisis that it was intended to solve or ameliorate. One of the main reasons is projection: the hatred of successful societies deflects attention from the abject failure of the accusers' own miserable countries. Another is that the privileged UN bureaucrats are in it for themselves, forming part of the set of parasites called "transnational progressives." These fat cats pursue their self-serving agendas by using the money of Western taxpayers.

Another illuminating book covering some of the same ground is Tower of Babble by Dore Gold, whilst Global Deception by Joseph Klein and The Beast on the East River by Nathan Tabor show how the UN has become a threat to the security and sovereignty of the USA. Dominated by power-hungry bureaucrats, shady billionaires and special interest groups, Turtle Bay is nothing else but a pestilential swamp of corruption, nepotism and even drug dealing, as revealed in The UN Gang: A Memoir of Incompetence, Corruption, Espionage, Anti-Semitism and Islamic Extremism at the UN Secretariat by Pedro Sanjuan. Finally, the collusion of the mass media and the details of the Oil-for-Food scandal are brilliantly covered in Eric Shawn's The U.N. Exposed.

Nations United provides detailed information on the history of the Middle East conflict and on the nature of the UN. Copious notes at the end of every chapter plus an extensive bibliography provide an impressive collection of sources for further investigation. The book makes a valuable contribution to the literature on this corrupt and criminal organization.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A stinging indictment of anti-Semitism, June 10, 2007

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This review is from: Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West (Hardcover)

Written by Jewish historian Alex Grobman, Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West is a stinging indictment of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, and anti-Israel speech and action, especially as seen in the United Nations in modern history and the present day. Chapters briefly summarize the origins of Zionism, decry the UN's 1975 Z=R resolution that declared Zionism to be "a form of racism and racial discrimination" (this resolution was repealed in 1991, yet Grobman maintains that repercussions remain), discuss the reprehensible usage of Holocaust denial as a weapon and its consequences, describe modern anti-Semitism in the context of Z=R, and much more. The final passage, "Is the UN Worth It?" crystalizes Grobman's doubts about the failings of this international institution. Part history, part ardent defense of Israel and its practices, part political manifesto, and entirely critical of the UN, Nations United is heavily researched with an extensive list of articles and an index, and worth reading for its insights into the conservative Zionist perspective regardless of whether one agrees entirely with its claims.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ for Western Survival!, January 7, 2007

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This review is from: Nations United: How the United Nations Undermines Israel and the West (Hardcover)

As far as I am concerned, any book that exposes the United Nations as an apostate organization bent on the erosion and even destruction of Israel and its western allies is well worth reading. That puts Alex Grobman's book, NATIONS UNITED: HOW THE UNITED NATIONS UNDERMINE ISRAEL AND THE WEST, on my short list of `must reads'. Grobman glaringly illustrates how the U.N. consistently betrays its own charter by failing to support the Jewish state; a nation created in part, by the United Nations.

Dr. Grobman begins his work at the conclusion of WWII, giving a precise analysis of the groundwork surrounding the establishment of Israel. He then takes the reader through the progression of events that have caused support of Israel, by the U.N., to deteriorate to the point of implacable antagonism and opposition. Such events are detailed as the former Soviet Union's disdain for Israel and the mounting dissent of the increasingly more powerful Middle Eastern Muslim countries, whose U.N. membership currently outnumbers Jewish membership by 23 to 1.

You will also glean valuable insight as to how the finances of the U.N. (which comes largely from the west) are being used to promote an anti-Semitic and anti-Western worldwide agenda; how the U.N uses primarily anti-Israel and secondarily anti-Western propaganda to mask the truth of oppression and fanatical leadership of many of the Muslim member states.

Dr. Grobman goes on to illustrate the plethora of ways in which the U.N has aided and abetted atrocious behavior and mishandling of funds by the Palestinians. The reader's attention is also directed to the June, 2006 U.N. Human Rights Council meeting where the primary focus was human rights violations against occupied Arab peoples (Palestinians), but human rights violations in places such as Darfur, Uzbekistan, Mexico and Sri Lanka went completely ignored.

The summary conclusion of Dr. Grobman's brilliant and critical work here is that the United Nations is like a cancer to world society whose time for dissolution is long overdue. The corruption (Oil for Food) and consistent pressing of political agendas has gone on for far too long and it is critical to the future of western civilization that this spurious organization designed to protect human rights be brought to justice for its corruption and terminated from existence for its failure to hold itself to its own charter laws.

This is a must read for anyone who has as much as a minor concern for the future of our world.

Monty Rainey
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