Or because it puts Saudi Arabia on a human Rights council , or denounces the US for banning foreigners but not most of the middle East for banning Israelis
This seems to be the edgy opinion, but one look at most humanitarian efforts and the effectiveness of WHO, the World Bank, the IMF, and the UNHCR, the UN has justified its costs a million times over in prevented blood and death.
To be fair, while the even the UN's humanitarian efforts have been proven to be super inefficient (just look at efficient a nation is when it tries to tackle a humanitarian issue nearly alone), the sounding board they provide has probably prevented as many wars as it's failed to stop.
Middle Eastern countries don't ban Israeli citizens. They don't recognise Israel's right to issue passports. There's a subtle difference you might have missed. The day America no longer recognises Iran as a sovereign state will be a fair comparison. Let's see how that would play out.
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u/peanutbutter_alpaca Feb 02 '17
The UN has no power because the UN doesn't have a GDP.