If Muslim nations have any sense of respect, they must immediately start this campaign of mass exit from the UN. Otherwise, they should remain ready for recurrent destruction at the hands of the Big-5 or their stooges
THE whole world kept watching humanity crying in Gaza. Around 80,000 innocent lives were lost, but none had the guts and the courage to interfere. Men and women, old, young and children were and are still being massacred, yet the biggest body of the world is in no position to act.
Now, America and Israel have attacked Iran, decapitating its Supreme Leader and other leading figures in the government. Schools, hospitals and streets are being hit, killing more than a thousand. And again, no international organisation is in a position to act against the aggressor.
The United Nations is hardly an organisation of the nations of the world. It is just an organisation of the Big-5, without whose support, nothing can happen, even if the rest of the members are unanimous on an issue. The Big-5, holding veto powers, can do anything in the world, can kill any number of people or can protect any nation involved in genocide, if it suits the global designs of even a single one of them.
What was happening in Gaza and now in Iran is the sheer massacre of innocent people. But the UN cannot even call for a ceasefire because one of the Big-5 is not interested. It is determined to protect its interests by safeguarding a terrorist state, which is killing people in the name of self-defence. Be it Bush or Obama, be it Trump or Biden, when it comes to the Israel-Palestine question or the larger issues of the Muslim World, they all tend to behave similarly. They can see the “Right to Defence” of Israel but not that of Palestinians or Iran. America has killed hundreds of thousands of innocents in the world during the last 100 years and yet it has the audacity to call Iran a terrorist state rather than accepting that America itself is the biggest terrorist state of the world. What to speak of punishment to Israel, which is forcibly occupying Palestinian territories for more than 70 years, UN cannot even pass a resolution asking for a ceasefire. Why should then the non-veto nations remain members of this toothless organisation? Why should they not quit it without delay? Why should Muslim nations not take the lead in this regard? They must combine with like-minded countries to have a mass exodus unless the United Nations removes the Veto power of the Big-5 nations.
Isn’t this strange that a world, which worships democracy, has its highest body run by an oligarchy of five countries? And this is continuing for more than 75 years. This is high time the countries of the world demanded equal rights in all matters, whether related to security or development. If Muslim nations have any sense of respect, they must immediately start this campaign of mass exit from the UN. Otherwise, they should remain ready for recurrent destruction at the hands of the Big-5 or their stooges.
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Dr Javed Jamil is an eminent Islamic scholar and author. The views expressed here are the author’s personal and Clarion India does not necessarily subscribe to them. His email address: doctorforu123@yahoo.com.
