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UM Schmu 'em: The UN and the Iraqi Question |
| Section: MODERN THOUGHT / FEATURE |
| Author: Stephen Blank |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 4,862 Words, 31,056 Characters |
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In Hebrew, UM represents the acronym for the words United Nations. As for "schmu 'em," that is obviously dismissive. The quote that titles this article came from David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founder and as tough-minded a realist as ever held power, though not a hawk. Reportedly, he uttered this phrase upon being told that the United Nations would guarantee Israeli security after 1956. Subsequent Middle Eastern history has confirmed the validity of this statement and the realism of his assessment.
Ben-Gurion's remark possesses particular validity and force today because of the controversy surrounding the UN-mandated inspection of Iraq. All the states that demanded the dispatch of inspection teams there are now demanding that we wait several months or even a year to hear the report before f...
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3.Victor H. Feske, "Suez: the British Foreign Office," in The Diplomats:1939-1979, ed. Gordon Craig and Francis Lowe (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1994), 193.
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