The United Nations, which both in its current form and in its previous iteration as the League of Nations helped facilitate Israel’s national rebirth, has today become a house of lies dedicated to tearing down the Jewish state.

That was the message delivered on Wednesday by Gilad Erdan, Israel’s ambassador to the world body.

Erdan was arguing against a UN General Assembly vote on whether or not to hold a ceremony in honor of the 75th “Nakba Day,” when Palestinians mark the “catastrophe” (that’s what “nakba” means) of Israel’s establishment.

Needless to say, the vote passed easily (90 in favor, 30 against, 47 abstentions), the irony being that the United Nations has now officially chosen to see the very thing it voted in favor of 75 years ago – namely, recognition of a sovereign Jewish state in at least part of the Holy Land – as a catastrophe.

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And you will note that the Palestinians here aren’t talking about what the world today calls the “Israeli occupation,” which is confined to Gaza and the so-called “West Bank.”

Those territories came under Israeli control just 55 years ago.

No, they are talking about Tel Aviv, Haifa, Netanya, etc. All of it, the entire State of Israel, is a “catastrophe” in the eyes of our Palestinian “peace partners.”

Erdan did not mince words: “What would you say if the international community celebrated the establishment of your country as a disaster? What a disgrace.”

He also highlighted the clear double standard in commemorating the catastrophe experienced by local Arabs, but ignoring what befell the hundreds of thousands of Jews who at the same time were persecuted, slaughtered and expelled from surrounding Arab lands.

The Israeli envoy presented a copy of the May 16, 1948 edition of The New York Times, which was headlined: “Jews in grave danger in all Moslem lands.”

The international community seems to have forgotten that tragic episode in Jewish suffering, even as it has eagerly adopted the Palestinian “nakba” as a cause célèbre.

In short, the UN has become a den of duplicity and deceit when it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“Why does this house have to be a house of lies?” asked Erdan.

He also lambasted the UN for abandoning its primary objective of facilitating peace in the world by “passing an extreme and baseless resolution [that only] helps to perpetuate the conflict.”