...it couldn't *ever* get worse than Kofi Annan.

During his visit Ban met with the parents of PA Arabs serving time in Israeli prisons for involvement in terrorist activity. The secretary-general also visited the grave of Yassir Arafat in Ramallah Sunday. He laid a wreath of white flowers on the site before closing his eyes in meditation. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121948

to see how the expelled Jews are living in third-world conditions these days. And they should also be required to visit Sderot and all the Jewish communities that live under attack and harassment. After the experience with the German bishops and this UN Sec Gen, no VIP should be spared the sight of real Jewish suffering in Israel, including meetings with grieving Jewish families.

He is not dancing Israel's Tone. Reality Check, world

The UN Sec-Gen should not be traveling at all especially to dangerous places. He should be planning how to get the world to vanquish the barbaric regimes of Sudan and Iran.

The UN is simply a political stage, and just like any political stage, the countries that wield influence there are the ones that are willing to display and use their political muscle, and the UN will always be anti-western so long as the west refuses to exert tremendous pressure there. Given the nature of its organizers and its charters, however, it is impossible, by any political means to make it a pro-western organization, but it is possible to make it irrelevant. Just look at Iran; even if it had no allies on the security council, the UN would stil not be able to do anything against it, because the UN is not a source of clout, it is simply source of talk, and the only way it gets any leverage on any one country is if that country allows it to do so. Ignore the UN, and it will not be able to hurt you.

From what I've seen and heard Ban Ki-moon will be an excellent replacement for the corruput Kof (monkey in Hebrew). Let's give him a chance and not attack him before even giving him time to get acquainted - like he did during his chopper flight today. People are not so dumb as Orly Azoulay would like to assume. Many nations, like the Chinese and Japanese etc are very polite but not at all weak. MIke

now i know why you put israil as formerly .. may be it hurts you but you can not ignor it /and the same is the un to me it hurts me many times by the vitoes agaianst my rights .. but i see that israil support the un when the un support israil ,but ignor the un when they feel it is not supporting israil .. but hurt will never let the one to ignor it .. it is not talks it is some thing of power talk .and something let its secretary to say it is only 4 years and i will be out of this miserable organization .. it is the power talk in the un .. it is not the fair // even there is some people with miserable life have the same philosophy as this life will be ended .it is about the time not about the miserable .. as our friend bush knows that his time as a presedent will be ended so let this miserable iraqu situation to be as it is .. simply it is an easy thing to ignor any problem