Mark Seddon exposes how for over a year now the UN has been effectively powerless at stopping Israel's genocide on Gaza, illuminating the limitations of António Guterres' leadership as Secretary General and also highlighting the UN's weak attempts to get aid into Gaza.
He also exposes Israel's ongoing war against UNRWA and explains the process of how Israel could well be expelled from the UN while offering his perspective on whether the UN is indeed a dying institution.
Mark Seddon is a former UN Correspondent for Al Jazeera English TV and Editor of Tribune magazine. He has also worked as a Speechwriter for former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He is now director of UN Studies at the University of Buckingham.
In 1947 the UN declared war on the Palestinian people. Without any legal precedent, it divided land between a colonial immigrant population and the Indigenous people and gave the invaders most of the land. There has never been a moment like it. A blameless population made enemies of the world's body for peace. The UN must revisit this outrageous crime and face its complicity.