Israel will never leave the UN, and the reason is quite fundamental. The UN is the most critical implementation organ of the present International Order devised and nurtured by the U.S. and its Western allies after the bloodshed of the two world wars. The promotion and protection of this order has been a linchpin of U.S. foreign policy espoused by all the U.S. administrations as its prime responsibility.
The important question is what this international order really means and why it is so important for the U.S? Just briefly, this order revolves around promotion and protection of liberal democracies, free markets and personal liberties while the opposite formerly led by the U.S.S.R. and now by China is a negation of this order. The U.S. firmly believes that its order is of universal nature, especially after the demise of the former USSR, and the only way forward towards peace and prosperity in the world. The Chinese of course takes this Universalism as Imperialism and a tool by the U.S to maintain its hegemonic position on the world’ stage. When you look at the relationships of these two countries, the U.S. and China— and in former times U.S. versus U.S.S.R— the struggle for order and hegemony is, and will remain, the most important driver that defines and steers those relations.
It is not surprising that China is not the only nation that rejects this prevalent order. Iran is another example that openly flouts and resists the spread of liberal democracies and free markets in its immediate periphery. Again, this aspect is the main determiner of the foreign policy of these two hostile countries. North Korea, Russia, Venezuela and Zimbabwe are addition to the same list with authoritarian governments in place that reject the spread of liberal democracies and free markets. A close look into the mutual relations of these countries with the U.S. reveals that ideology—not the divergence of national interests— is the key factor defining those relations . If these countries somehow were to espouse the U.S. norms of democracy and free markets, the tension in relations would significantly be cooled down despite all other parameters remaining the same.
It would not be wrong to say that the present order and its symbolic organs (The UN, IMF, World Bank and the bunch of huge Multinational Companies) play an extremely important part in securing and maintaining the U.S. hegemonic role in the world, thereby giving it a legal credence and moral authority— no matter how questionable it is— on the world’ stage. By leaving the UN, Israel in all measures will not only undermine the much dreamed American World Order but will also put its weight behind those revisionists powers who are determined to overthrow it or change it as per their national aspirations. Of course, this would be the death of the cordial relations between these two countries.
For an insightful discussion please read World Order: Henry Kissinger: 9780143127710: Amazon.com: Books
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