Book of the Week - Tower of Babble

Every week, I'll be highlighting a book I think is important. Last week, I wrote about "The Case for Democracy" by Natan Sharansky. If you haven't read it, please pick it up. It's got a very good history of the Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations that you shouldnt' miss.

This week, I'd like to talk about Dore Gold's "Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos".

Dore Gold is Israel's former ambassador to the United Nations, so he has a wealth of information to share. Gold is angry that the UN has eroded its standards, condoned terrorism, and its lack of moral clarity. He tackles the Arab-Israeli conflict, the 1991 Gulf War, the UN in Rwanda, the Srebenica Massacre, and the horrendous experience with the International Criminal Court.

Gold also includes a 30 page section of documents which he calles the Paper Trail. First is a coded cable from Major General Romeo Dallaire to UN headquarters asking permission to seize weapons caches. The UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations - headed by Kofi Annan - denied his request. He also had documents on the former Yugoslavia and the Oil-for-Palaces program in Iraq.

And to prove that the UN hasn't (and won't) stand up to terrorism, Gold has a long chart showing all the terrorist operatives who were educated in schools run by the UN Relief and Work Agency.

Please buy and read this book.