The Mausoleum of Shameless Sanctimonious Hypocrisy

"The UN Security Council dedicated a moment of silence in memory of the mass-murdering President of Iran, Raisi. What a disgrace."

"This council, which has taken no real steps to address the release of our hostages, bowed its head to a man responsible for the massacre and murder of thousands in Iran, Israel and around the world."

"What's next? Will the council dedicate a moment of silence to commemorate Hitler?"

"The Security Council has become a danger to global peace and security."

Gilad Erdan, Israeli's ambassador to the United Nations

The United Nations flag is lowered to half-mast at UN Headquarters to honor Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian president, who died in a helicopter crash on May 19, 2024. At right is Amir Saeid Iravani, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, on May 21, 2024. Credit: Mark Garten/U.N. Photo

Coincidentally to the Islamic Republic of Iran's President's helicopter crashing and all aboard perishing, a new video was released by families of the abducted Israelis taken to Gaza by Hamas terrorists. The video, as with all others previously seen, was taken by the terrorists themselves equipped with body cams for the specific purpose of recording their atrocities for posterity, for personal pride of accomplishment as they committed mass rape, unspeakable mutilations of helpless women, and as they went about southern Israel's farming communities killing children and infants, the elderly and setting family homes on fire where the inhabitants were burned alive.

This latest video was of the capture of five teen-age Israeli girls surrounded by terrorists, their blood-streaked faces and shocked, incredulous and fearful faces recorded by the cameras after their rapes and beatings. Not long before, the bodies of Shani Louk, the German-Israeli whose partially unclad body was paraded through Gaza on the back of a truck, Palestinian civilians happy for the opportunity to beat the corpse, was found by Israeli Defense Forces in Rafah. The 23-year-old Louks' discovery along with that of Amit Buskila, 28, and Itshak Gelernter, 47, and Ron Benjamin, 53, were brought back to Israel for burial.

"The return of their bodies is a painful and stark reminder that we must swiftly bring back all our brothers and sisters from their cruel captivity -- the living to rehabilitation, and the murdered to a proper burial", the families and friends of the hostages taken to Gaza by Hamas stated. Of the 130 hostages remaining in Gaza, it is believed by Israeli authorities that 30 are now dead.

There was never a ceremony held at the United Nations to express sympathy and sorrow at the horrors inflicted by Palestinian terrorists on innocent Israeli civilians, the young and the old, along with foreign farm workers who had been killed and also taken hostage. As were Muslim citizens of Israel. But a man who had served on a "Death Commission" represented by a four-member panel overseeing "trials" for political prisoners summarily sentenced to death, has been honoured at that august institution.

Iranian dissidents estimate that 30,000 Iranians were executed following the 1979 Islamic Revolution. And for his considerable part in that destruction of human life, Ibrahim Raisi was dubbed "The Butcher of Tehran". Raisi "led the arrests, torture and executions of members of political groups", a report titled The 1988 Massacre of 30,000 Political Prisoners by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, wrote.

As president, he oversaw 'morality police" arresting 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for the crime of failing to cover her hair adequately; "unacceptable acts of chaos", he characterized the mass protests that broke out following her death in police custody. It was he who ordered the crackdown that killed over 500 Iranians, and arrested another 22,000. 

"Since April, security forces have intensified their enforcement of compulsory veiling in public spaces through subjecting women and girls to constant surveillance, beatings, sexual violence, electric shocks, arbitrary arrest and detention and other harassment" in its "war on women", Amnesty International wrote of the Republic's actions under the man whom the UN honoured with two consecutive days of 'a moment of respectful silence'.

 

UN Security Council members observe a moment of silence in remembrance of Iranian President Seyyed Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and other officials who died in a helicopter accident on 19 May  Photo: United Nations