Doing the Right Thing

The League of Nations accepted it lacked

the gravitas and influence to apprehend a

grisly annihilation of a people and stepped

aside in the greater interests of uniting nations

against future genocides. Its successor gravely

etched a pledge for the ages in human rights

entitlements and protection. When two fractious

tribes faced bloodbaths a plan for Partition

each accessing its own territory, sovereign and

free the Solomonic wisdom cleaving a baby

in two to settle two mothers' claims unseemly

soon collapsed. The people whose ancestral

land it was gained, its challengers lost and in

its compassion was born an agency of nations

united, charged with their welfare. A truly most

beneficent of agencies assuring those rejecting

their portion that their self-induced and so

comfortable victimhood was durable and as

such enduring. And so it has proved, from the

600,000 that fled a retaliatory conflict as a

strictly temporary phase in conquest, refugees

now number tenfold, demanding the entire

child, now a strong and mature adult able to

fend for itself as one of the wonders of the

ancient and the modern world of progress and

prosperity, yet one its erstwhile detractors

never tire of blaming and shaming, with

effusively damning slanders augmented by

psychotically-driven lethal assaults whose

purpose is to show the world how sadly

defenceless against tyranny victims can be.