Report Chronicles U.N.'s 'Most Ungrateful' Nations
by Chad Groening
March 21, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A United Nations "report card" issued recently by a conservative Internet news service reveals that most countries of the world have voted against the U.S. on key issues before the U.N. General Assembly. The survey found that Israel is America's most reliable ally at the U.N.The annual "United Nations Report Card" was released by Newsmax.com earlier this month. Contributing editor Kenneth Timmerman says his organization examined 12 key General Assembly votes on issues of critical importance to the United States. A vast majority of the time, he says, U.N. members sided against the U.S. For example, the tally shows that even Great Britain -- a staunch and close ally -- did not vote with the U.S. very often.
"Britain does vote with us 17 percent of the time," Timmerman notes. "You would think they are our best ally; in fact, they're not." Who is, according to the survey? "Israel is our best ally -- they vote with us 83 percent of the time."
Timmerman says besides Israel, the Pacific nations of Palau, Micronesia, and Marshall Islands are the only other countries that side with the U.S. on most of the issues. "Outside of those four countries, we don't have very many friends at the United Nations," he observes.
According to Newsmax.com, some of the nations voting against the U.S. on a regular basis include some of the biggest recipients of American foreign aid -- in some case amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars a year. Timmerman notes a few of those.
"Egypt [has] received over $10 billion in U.S. aid; they vote with us zero percent of the time," he notes. "Jordan still gets $224 million a year ... zero [percent]. Turkey, they get a billion dollars in U.S. aid -- they don't vote with us at all; zero percent." According to the report card, other nations benefiting significantly from U.S. aid that register zero percent support include Ethiopia (almost $600 million in aid), Colombia ($524 million), and Peru ($229 million).
Traditional U.S. allies France, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea all voted with the U.S. just 8 percent of the time. "So we have a real problem at the U.N. General Assembly," the Newsmax spokesman observes.
Many of the General Assembly votes, says Timmerman, were aimed at hurting the nation of Israel. "There's a huge percentage of votes at the United Nations which are all aimed at either de-legitimizing the state of Israel [or] imposing restrictions on Israel's ability to defend itself from terrorism and things like that," he notes. "There is no other nation on Earth that has this kind of condemnation."
The latest United Nations Report Card appears in the March 2006 issue of Newsmax Magazine.
Chad Groening, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
