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-2- must be upheld", they say - and then proceed to bomb Iraq so as to enforce air exclusion zones that the United Nations has never proposed or endorsed, whilst remaining silent on the Unanimous demand of the UN security Council (that is to say, including even their own grudging vote) that the 415 Palestinian deportees be allowed to return to their homes. But why such disrespect for the UN and its resolutions? Things were not always this way. During much of the 1970s, a United front of Socialist and third world countries enabled the UN to take up a number of progressive positions - there were demands for the establishment of a New International Economic Order, a New International Information order and for the return of Cultural relics plundered from the oppressed nations in the heyday of colonialism; the status of liberation movements as representatives of their peoples, such as the PLO, the ANC and PAC in South Africa and the Puerto Rican Socialist Party, was underwritten in international law, and there was the landmark resolution branding Zionism as a form of racism. This is what Henry Kissinger described as the "tyranny of the majority" - and the USA piled up millions upon millions of unpaid dues to the United Nations, as well as, along with Britain, withdrawing from UNESCO

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