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Harris O. Schoenberg

A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the Plo Hardcover – July 1, 1989

by Harris Okun Schoenberg (Author)

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The author reveals how the PLO manipulated the international organization and the principles of the UN charter to legitimize its own efforts to destroy Israel and impede the movement by the Arab states toward peace while continuing to develop its worldwide network of terror. Provides a vivid exposé of the inside story and a provocative analysis of the consequences for the UN. Winner of the National Jewish Book Award!

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570 pages
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English
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S.P.I. Books
Publication date

July 1, 1989
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5.98 x 9.06 inches
ISBN-10

093350361X
ISBN-13

978-0933503618
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M. D Roberts

A Warrant For The Pursuit Of Jewish Genocide.

Reviewed in the United States on October 3, 2002

Read how the exploitation and manipulation of the UN by the PLO and it's Arab colleagues has lead to the UN's moral decline and allegations of being nothing more than a �sister organisation' to the Arab League.
A shocking but true account of how the UN has itself strayed from it's original mandate and how an organisation of terror has subverted the high ideals of the UN by fanning the flames of anti-Semitism and legitimising terrorism against the Jewish state of Israel.
This is a penetrating study of what goes on behind the scenes of the UN and reveals scandalous procedures which most of the public have no awareness of.
Without the documentation of the author, it is difficult to fathom the depths of hatred and hypocrisy emanating from the UN towards the Jewish state of Israel.
Since joining the UN in 1949, Israel has been largely ostracized at the forum. It is too often the object of condemnatory resolutions, usually sponsored by an overwhelmingly Arab-based majority that, together with an ever present army of supporting nations, is nearly always successful in passing any and all resolutions that vilify or condemn Israel.
Israel is the ONLY nation still not allowed to belong to one of the five regional groups in which much of the closed-door realpoliticking takes place. Admission to any group requires unanimous consent of the group's member nations and to date Israel has not been able to obtain this despite it's 53 year long membership of the UN.
Membership of the UN Security Council has ALWAYS been denied to Israel, yet Arab nations frequently sit upon the Council, often two Arab nations at a time. Syria recently being the head of the UN Security Council, despite being a sponsor of state terrorism, the base of countless terrorist organisations and publicly sworn to the eradication of the state of Israel !
Again, UN Security Council resolutions are always swayed against Israel before voting even begins. Without the occasional US veto, virtually any anti-Israeli resolution would be passed.
The UN's predecessor, the League of Nations failed to prevent the rise of Hitler, the outbreak of World War II, of policies of genocide that slaughtered six million Jews. Revelations here show the same impotence in the face of the same racial hatred which could again see the same policies resurrected.
This book has received rave reviews from those who are knowledgeable about the UN and I would highly recommend that this book be re-printed and amended to include recent events, corroborating the revelations of the author, which are occurring at an alarming rate.
It can be seen from the facts outlined here that compliance with any UN Resolutions pertaining to the Arab-Israeli issue was of absolutely no concern whatsoever to the Arab world when it sought the genocide of the Jewish people/state from their midst in 1948, 1967 and 1973. Yet, having been successful in now obtaining UN Security Council Resolutions against Israel through the manipulation so well outlined herein, the Arab world is now beginning to demand military and political implementation of these UN Resolutions very much on a par with the attitude now being shown against Iraq.
Without books such as these and the courage of the authors to make the truth known, we risk being swept away on a new tide of anti-Semitic fervour, whose end does not bear thinking about.
Very highly recommended.....as is a re-release and update of this book. Publishers take note please.

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Jill Malter

The United Nations as a terrorist support group

Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2004

This is an amazingly detailed study of how the United Nations has submitted to terror, allowing diplomacy to become, in a horrifying reversal of what Clausewitz said, war by other means.

The book shows the adoration the United Nations has had for Arafat, which has included allowing him to address that organization in 1974 and even applauding him. It left me wondering what kind of species could do such a thing to itself. And it convinced me that the United Nations is not merely useless, but is an extremely counterproductive organization.

But this book does not stop there. It continues for well over 500 pages to describe United Nations legitimization of terror. It describes the UN view of the terrorist as a martyr, and how it ruled against taking action against Ziad Abu Ain, who murdered two boys and injured 36 other people with a bomb.

Schoenberg then shows how the terrorists have co-opted many UN elements and forums: the General Assembly, the Security Council, Secretariat, the specialized agencies, the peacekeeping agencies. Here we see the extent to which anti-Israeli slanders have dominated the UN agenda, crowding out many real issues the UN ought to attend to.

The author shows the flip side of the coin: in addition to lionizing terror, the UN undermines, delegitimizes, and defames both Israel and Jews in general.

Still, there is an obvious question: what sort of precedent is this support for terror? Is it part of a larger problem? Here, the author discusses the concept of a "national liberation movement" (NLM). He asks what an NLM is, and whether the anti-Israeli terrorists actually constitute one (they don't). And he mentions the implications for supporting anything that calls itself an NLM.

Schoenberg then discusses the history of the political left with Arab terrorism. After all, until the mid-1960s, Arab antisemitic terror had been politically aligned with fascism. That had been true of Mufti Amin al-Husayni. And Israeli relations with Cuba had been good. But in the late 1960s, the Soviet Union pressured Castro into siding against Israel. This was a key step in obtaining support for genocidal antisemitism from the Left.

I think the most interesting part of the book were the descriptions of how the UN supports and disseminates terrorist propaganda. And how it gets some otherwise intelligent people to feel that negotiating with terrorist groups and supporting at least some of their warlike demands is a means to achieve peace.

Schoenberg concludes by explaining that if the United Nations were to represent the decent opinion of Mankind, the smaller and weaker nations of the world would have a genuine forum. However, it doesn't do that, and thus these smaller nations are losing an opportunity to have their views listened to seriously.

This book was written 15 years ago, but it ought to be reprinted. What it says is at least as valid today as it was then.

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