🌍 How the UN Can Save Itself — and Stop The Genocide in Gaza
The General Assembly has the legal power to deny Israel’s credentials, impose sanctions, create a tribunal, and send a protection force. Will it act, or collapse like the League of Nations?
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The UN’s Test of Legitimacy
The United Nations was born from genocide. Its charter was written to prevent another Holocaust. And yet today, as Gaza starves, burns, and bleeds, the UN faces its greatest test: will it act to stop a genocide in real time, or collapse into irrelevance like the League of Nations?
Craig Mokhiber, who resigned in protest after a long career as a human rights attorney inside the UN, has laid out what can and must be done. It is simple. It is legal. And it requires only courage.
The Power of “Uniting for Peace”
Most people believe the United States can block any UN action with its Security Council veto. That’s true in the Council. But in 1950, a new mechanism was created: Uniting for Peace.
It allows the General Assembly to act when the Security Council is paralyzed. And with a two-thirds vote, neither the U.S. nor Israel nor any single nation can stop it.
What the UN Could Do Tomorrow
The General Assembly could act immediately to:
Deny Israel’s credentials as a legitimate member state while it commits apartheid and genocide. And kills hundreds of workers from the UN itself.
Impose sanctions and a military embargo to choke off the bombs and bullets killing children.
Establish a criminal tribunal to prosecute Israeli leaders for war crimes and genocide.
Reactivate anti-apartheid mechanisms once used to isolate South Africa.
Mandate a UN protection force for Palestine to guard civilians, preserve evidence, deliver aid, and begin reconstruction.
Every one of these steps is lawful. Every one is within the UN’s power. Every one would save lives.
The Question of Legitimacy
This isn’t just about Gaza. It’s about the UN itself.
If the UN cannot act to stop genocide — when the evidence is overwhelming, when children are starved on camera, when hospitals are bombed daily — then what is the UN for?
This is about survival. About whether the UN is still a moral force in the world, or whether it dies as the League of Nations did: paralyzed, cowardly, irrelevant.
The Role of Ordinary People
Family, governments rarely act without pressure. They must be forced.
That means calls, protests, lobbying, embarrassment, and confrontation. Delegates must be made to feel the heat. Because when they vote in the General Assembly, they can stop this genocide.
This is how apartheid was ended. This is how South Africa was isolated. And this is how Israel can be confronted.
The Choice
My fear is that the UN will choose cowardice. That it will wring its hands and issue statements while Gaza burns. That it will go the way of the League of Nations.
But my hope is that enough nations — in Africa, Latin America, Asia, and even Europe — will summon the courage to act. And my hope is that ordinary people, you and me, will raise enough hell that silence becomes impossible.
Because the UN is not just buildings in New York. It is us. It is what we demand. And right now, we must demand that it act to save lives — and save itself.
Why Membership Matters
Family, you will not hear this on CNN. You will not read it in The New York Times. But here we name the truth: the UN can stop this genocide — if it chooses to.
My work exists to drag these truths into the light. I keep every article free, because genocide journalism must never be behind a paywall. But that means I depend on you.
We are at 2,696 members, just 304 away from 3,000. If you believe fearless journalism must hold the UN to account — must demand action to stop genocide — then I need you with me.
Please, right now, become a monthly, annual, or founding member. Together, we will keep telling the truth until power cannot ignore it.
Love and appreciate each of you.
Your friend and brother,
Shaun
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💯 UN GA must assemble and mobilize a peacekeeping force to protect Palestinians from Israeli genocidal maniacs. Time is of the essence so they must act now!