What to do when the UN decides to ignore Israel's Memorial Day and debates about Israel anyway?

light of  5 Iyar 5783 | אור ה' אייר ה'תשפ"ג

Yesterday was the 19th day of the Omer count... | אתמול היה יום ה-19 של ספירת העומר

 

NOTE: It was Yom haZikaron (Israeli Memorial Day) when I started this post...I finally posted it on erev Yom haAtzma'ut (Israeli Independence Day). Not quite what I would like to see for the long run, but at least I got to come home before the Great Day of G-d.

UPDATE BELOW: the words to the song on the video. Thanks, Neshama, for that great idea!

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... Watch what Israeli UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan does here. 

Watch till the end, it's only 1.5 minutes long. You can fill in the blank of what you think the UN initials should stand for.

Do you think it might be time for Official Israel to QUIT THE UNITED NATIONS, finally? 

How long does it take for the Middle East's "neighborhood bully*" to stand up for himself and stop complying with the "whipping boy" role the nations have given him?

Do you think Israel's political system — the sum total of all the governments we've endured these last 75 years — could do more to prevent casualties like the ones we've seen throughout the years? We need to see the present government respect us at home at least as well as Ambassador Erdan does internationally.

For all the Israeli fallen, military and civilians alike; "Israel proper" and "territories" alike.

G-D HELP US ALL.

 

*"Neighborhood Bully" is a Bob Dylan song from his 1983 album Infidels. Words are included in the link above, an article by Avi Abelow.

UPDATE: Neshama asked me if I (and if not I, then she, on her blog) would post the words to Neighborhood Bully here on the blog. Here they are:

NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY by Bob Dylan

Well, the neighborhood bully, he’s just one man
His enemies say he’s on their land
They got him outnumbered about a million to one
He got no place to escape to, no place to run
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully he just lives to survive
He’s criticized and condemned for being alive
He’s not supposed to fight back, he’s supposed to have thick skin
He’s supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in
He’s the neighborhood bully.

The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land
He’s wandered the earth an exiled man
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn
He’s always on trial for just being born
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad
The bombs were meant for him. He was supposed to feel bad
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, the chances are against it, and the odds are slim
That he’ll live by the rules that the world makes for him
‘Cause there’s a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he got no allies to really speak of
What he gets he must pay for, he don’t get it out of love
He buys obsolete weapons and he won’t be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Well, he’s surrounded by pacifists who all want peace
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease
Now, they wouldn’t hurt a fly. To hurt one they would weep
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep
He’s the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that’s enslaved him is gone
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon
He’s made a garden of paradise in the desert sand
In bed with nobody, under no one’s command
He’s the neighborhood bully.

Now his holiest books have been trampled upon
No contract that he signed was worth that what it was written on
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What’s anybody indebted to him for?
Nothing, they say. He just likes to cause war
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed
They wait for this bully like a dog waits for feed
He’s the neighborhood bully.

What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers? Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill
Running out the clock, time standing still
Neighborhood bully.