Disparate views over the United Nations

Re “Rogues, despots, terrorists and shattered ideals -- the movie version,” Current, Nov. 6

The United Nations may have failed to stop many nations from violating human rights, but we know Ron Silver’s and David N. Bossie’s movie is propaganda because of the prominent complaints regarding the resolutions against Israel. The U.N. Charter indeed requires member nations to renounce aggression and respect international law, borders and human rights. Israel stands in flagrant violation of international law and borders in claiming parts of the West Bank in a war of conquest that it started.

Perhaps the U.N. merely recognizes that the 1947 partition plan that legitimized Israel, which was done against the wishes of the majority of the people who lived there and led to the massacre of thousands of Palestinians, was one of its first and worst mistakes.

LYN MCKUEN

Los Angeles

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Stanley Meisler (Current, Nov. 6) needs to read Silver’s and Bossie’s critique of the United Nations. How can a body that is complicit in the murders of 800,000 Rwandans and thousands of Bosnian Muslims be described as “works well”? Only in a world that awards the Nobel Peace Prize to Yasser Arafat could the relevance of the United Nations possibly be defended.

SANDY WHALING

Springville, Calif.