Are we actually supposed to applaud the United Nations for giving Israel the time of day? And, at least, for not only acknowledging it to condemn it?

I would be less irritable about the NYTimes piece this morning if the second sentence went something like this: For any of the 190 other nations in the world organization–some of which include human-rights-violating tyrannical regimes who sit in judgment over other nations on the U.N.’s human-rights panel–those would be routine events. If the NYTimes conveyed a sense of the ridiculousness of the state of affairs.