The UN helped to create Israel with the 1947 Partition Plan, Resolution 181, but that is not enough for Israel’s outgoing ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan. In an interview with Israel National News at the Jerusalem Conference in New York, Erdan embarked upon a tirade on the dangers that the UN poses to the world. He’s not wrong in terms of the UN being a threat; aiding a settler-colonial ideology to establish a state on ethnically-cleansed land was, and still is, an ongoing threat to Palestinians. A threat to Israel, though? No debate is needed to establish that it is very clearly not. Erdan’s main argument, however, is that the UN does indeed pose an existential threat to Israel … Continue reading How Israel perceives threats to its existence when there are none