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I strongly reject any threat by any [UN] member state to destroy another, or outrageous comments to deny historical facts such as the Holocaust. Claiming another UN member state does not have the right to exist or describe it in racist terms is not only utterly wrong but undermines the very principles we have all promised to uphold

Jeffrey Goldberg is right to say that the UN has very little effective power here, but it’s still worth remembering the next time someone says “oom shmoom” and dismisses the UN completely out of hand.