Tel-Chai Nation

Barry Rubin at the Gloria Center writes about how the UN has once again shown why it's worthless and atrocious - they gave a Rafik Hariri memorial award to Tayyip Erdogan, who's not only already showing why he doesn't deserve it, but is a friend of Syria's, the very autocracy that had Hariri murderered in the first place:

The first winner is Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Of course, Erdogan is an Islamist who is an ally of Syria, the murderer of Hariri.

Why did Erdogan get the $200,000 award? According to the announcement, the reason is that he organized the first conference of mayors that led to the creation of a worldwide organization of mayors, thus creating another round of meetings so that the budgets of cities can be spent on plane fare and luxury hotels for mayors to travel around the world. How's that for making the lives of urban people better?

Apparently, the fact that Erdogan is closely cooperating with the people who killed Hariri, after whom the award was named, did not strike the panel as ironic.

And of course Erdogan has also taken Turkey into alignment with Iran and Hizballah, the other forces which are trying to control Hariri's country and against whom the late prime minister fought.

What they've done is to invalidate their own so-called award, and show it's all a sham and a joke. Such utterly disgusting people.

Labels: iran, Lebanon, syria, turkey, UN corruption