United Nazi-ons

No, that's not a misprint. I insist on that being the correct spelling.

Dave Barry has opined that the raison d'etre of the UN is to "denounce Israel for everything, including sunspots."

I suppose I betray my ostensible knee-jerk pro-Israel sentiment when I counter-"bash" the UN.

Never mind that its "Committee on Human Rights" has seated, in no particular order, China, Syria, Lybia, Cuba, Sudan, and other shining beacons of liberty.

Never mind that its troops just sat on their hands during the Rwanda massacres in 1994.

Never mind that there were pictures of the UN commander in Srebrenica drinking with Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic the night before Mladic's troops massacred at least 7,000 Bosnian Muslims.

Then there's the outright undisguised hostility towards Jews (let alone Israel), never more in display than during the Durban "Anti-Racism" Conferences in 2001.

But I don't need to burden you with the details. Pedro Sanjuan's The UN Gang and Dore Gold's Tower of Babble document all of the above in a more devastatingly effective manner than I ever could.

However, just when one thinks the UN can't outdo itself, comes this bit of news, courtesy of Michael Freund of the Jerusalem Post (forwarded from Naomi Ragen):

The war in Lebanon may have ended two years ago, but that hasn't stopped the UN from exploiting the conflict to besmirch Israel. In a move that harks back to the bad old days of UN hypocrisy and double standards vis-à-vis the Jewish state, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon is reportedly set to demand that Israel reimburse Lebanon and Syria for damage caused during the war against Hizbullah.
Yes, you read that correctly. The UN wants Israel to pay for having the gall to defend itself.

I'm trying to weigh historical parallels. It seems Ban is trying to draw an analog between 2006 Israel and 1918 Germany (not too farfetched, as the Nazi analog has been bandied about by Israel's enemies almost since the birth of the Jewish state.)

I would venture a different parallel--Ban has taken a page from Hermann Goering's playbook. Here's a retelling of the aftermath of Kristallnacht:

Following Kristallnacht, on November 12, 1938, Hermann Goering called a meeting of the top Nazi leadership to assess the damage done during the night and place responsibility for it. Present at the meeting were Goering, Goebbels, Reinhard Heydrich, Walter Funk and other ranking Nazi officials. The intent of this meeting was two-fold: to make the Jews responsible for Kristallnacht and to use the events of the preceding days as a rationale for promulgating a series of antisemitic laws which would, in effect, remove Jews from the German economy. It was decided at the meeting that, since Jews were to blame for these events, they be held legally and financially responsible for the damages incurred by the pogrom. Accordingly, a "fine of 1 billion marks was levied for the slaying of Vom Rath, and 6 million marks paid by insurance companies for broken windows was to be given to the state coffers." (http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/kristallnacht.html)

Yes, it is spelled United Nazi-ons.