Dismantle the United Nations

Here’s a Crazy Idea: Shut Down the UN and Make Israel the World’s Role Model

Harry Liberman

An honest international body wouldn’t condemn the Middle East’s sole democracy—it would hand developing nations the Zionist blueprint for turning human agency into prosperity.

In science and engineering, the standard for progress is unforgiving: when an invention fails repeatedly to perform its intended function, you do not endlessly pour billions of dollars into the broken prototype. You audit the data, expose the design flaw, and dismantle the apparatus to build something that works.

Yet in international politics, the world treats the United Nations as a sacred relic immune to empirical reality. Founded in 1945 to prevent war, protect human rights, and advance human prosperity, the UN has instead become an outdated, corrupt bureaucracy that answers to no one, subsidizes failure, shields tyranny, and enables poverty and conflict across the globe. As the saying goes, the buck stops at the top—yet the UN is accountable to nobody.

Nowhere is the UN’s moral and intellectual bankruptcy clearer than in its treatment of the Zionist Jewish State of Israel. Rather than serving as the perpetual scapegoat of UN voting blocs, Israel should be the exact benchmark an honest international organization holds up to the developing world to say: Look at the evidence. Stop making excuses. This is how you succeed.

4,000 Years of Suffering—And Still Giving to the World

Consider the extraordinary arc of Jewish history. Across nearly 4,000 years of civilization, the Jewish people have endured the worst persecution recorded in human history—from ancient slavery, the destruction of the Temples, and the Roman exile to centuries of European pogroms, the Spanish Inquisition, the Farhud, and the industrial genocide of the Holocaust.

Yet despite four millennia of relentless attempts to erase them, the Jewish people never retreated into permanent victimhood or blamed the world for their fate. Instead, they remained a people that never stops giving—producing over 20% of all Nobel Prize laureates despite comprising less than 0.2% of the world’s population, alongside medical cures, ethical laws, and technological breakthroughs that have lifted billions of non-Jews out of disease and poverty.

Indigenous Roots, 23% of the Land, and Zero Natural Resources

That resilience found its ultimate expression in Zionism—the national liberation movement of the Jewish people returning to their ancestral soil. The indigenous connection of the Jewish people to Judea and the Land of Israel is anchored in more than 3,000 years of continuous history, language, and archaeology.

Following the 1920 San Remo Conference and the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine, the Jewish people accepted a fraction of their historic homeland—roughly 23% of the mandated territory once Britain severed the eastern 77% to create Transjordan. What remained was a narrow strip of land devoid of oil, gold, diamonds, or mineral wealth—largely arid desert in the south and malaria-infested swamps in the Hula Valley.

Yet without natural resources—relying solely on human capital and individual responsibility—the Zionist Jewish state drained the swamps, made the desert bloom, and built a technological superpower that ranks #1 globally in R&D intensity.

Voluminous Contributions and Lifesaving Aid in Global Crises

Even while confronting relentless wars, terrorism, and existential threats to its survival from the day of its rebirth, Israel and the Jewish people have shared voluminous scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs with all of humanity:

Water and Food Security

Israel pioneered modern drip irrigation and large-scale seawater desalination, solving water scarcity and boosting crop yields across drought-stricken continents.

Lifesaving Medicine

From Jonas Salk’s polio vaccine and cardiac pacemakers to Israeli breakthroughs like the PillCam, Copaxone, ReWalk exoskeletons, and emergency trauma bandages, Jewish and Israeli researchers have saved millions of lives worldwide.

Computing and Daily Technology

Everyday tools—from USB flash drives, Intel processors, and Waze navigation to early computing, mobile phone tech, and search algorithms—stem directly from Jewish and Israeli ingenuity.

First Responders in Global Crises

Whenever disaster strikes, Israeli rescue teams are among the first on the ground. Through humanitarian organizations like IsraAID, Israeli medics and engineers have deployed to over 60 countries—delivering clean water, trauma care, and disaster relief across Ukraine, Nepal, South America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

Treating Even Their Enemies

Guided by the Babylonian Talmud’s timeless teaching in Tractate Sanhedrin 37a that “whoever saves a single life, it is as if he saved an entire world”, Israeli hospitals have repeatedly provided life-saving medical care to thousands of Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank—including the very leaders and families of genocidal terrorist movements openly dedicated to Israel’s destruction.

In 2004, Israeli surgeons at Soroka Medical Center removed a life-threatening brain tumor from Yahya Sinwar while he was imprisoned, saving the life of the man who would later mastermind the October 7 massacre.

Similarly, Israel permitted PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to leave his Ramallah compound for urgent medical evacuation and repeatedly admitted senior Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh’s daughter, mother-in-law, and granddaughter into Tel Aviv and Jerusalem hospitals for emergency care. [1]

Agency vs. Collectivism: Why Nations Succeed or Fail

Why did resource-poor Israel turn swampland into a global innovation hub while dozens of nations across sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East—sitting atop trillions of dollars in oil, gold, cobalt, and rare earth minerals—remain trapped in poverty, illiteracy, and conflict?

The answer is not geography or bad luck. Poverty is a policy choice rooted in the divide between individual agency and collectivism:

The Torah’s Principle of Moral Agency:

Inscribed in the Torah and the Five Books of Moses—the foundational ethical framework the Jewish people gave to civilization—is the doctrine of free will and personal agency: the truth that every individual is endowed with dignity, moral responsibility, and the duty to choose life, build, and repair the world. Coupled with the rule of law, property rights, and open inquiry, agency unleashes human potential.

The Tyranny of Collectivism:

Across the modern era, every major ideology of human misery—Marxism, communism, socialism, fascism, Nazism, and radical Islamism—has been built on collectivism. Collectivism erases the individual, subordinates human freedom to the state, tribe, or ideology, centralizes power in the hands of unaccountable rulers, and blames external scapegoats for internal failure.

Nations that embrace agency, free enterprise, and human capital—such as Israel, South Korea, Japan, Switzerland, and the remarkably young United States—generate unprecedented prosperity without relying on raw resource extraction. Nations ruled by collectivist strongmen hoard resource revenues at the top while keeping their populations dependent and impoverished.

How the UN Enables Poverty and Persecutes Success

An honest international body would confront failing regimes in Africa, the Middle East, and beyond with a simple truth: No one is making you poor. After 4,000 years of suffering, the Zionist Jewish state built a first-world economy out of malaria swamps with zero natural resources; you have vast oil and mineral wealth. End corruption, adopt the rule of law, and replicate what works.

Instead, the UN does the exact opposite. Under the fiction of “sovereign equality,” authoritarian regimes control the General Assembly and wage relentless diplomatic warfare against Israel. According to UN Watch, in 2026 alone the UN General Assembly moved to adopt 11 resolutions condemning Israel compared to just 8 for the entire rest of the world combined—continuing a pattern where the UN passed six resolutions singling out Israel and zero on Sudan despite mass slaughter and millions displaced.

Meanwhile, while approving a $5.38 billion peacekeeping budget for 2025–2026 alongside billions in agency spending, the UN Human Rights Council seats notorious abusers like China, Sudan, Eritrea, and Vietnam, prompting the United States to boycott its Universal Periodic Review in 2026. Worse, the UN’s aid bureaucracy turns permanent misery into a permanent payroll, pouring money into mismanaged states without demanding structural reform.

Repairing Democracy at Home While Replacing the UN Abroad

To lead a new global order grounded in empirical results, free nations must also repair two internal design flaws that weaken democratic accountability at home:

Mandatory Voting:

Every modern state legally compels citizens to participate in the national census so government data reflects 100% of the population. Yet most democracies treat voting as optional. Following Australia’s compulsory voting model—tracked by the International IDEA Compulsory Voting Database—every citizen should be required to cast a ballot (including a “none of the above” option) so governments answer to the entire nation rather than partisan fringes.

Independent, Non-State Media

As documented by the Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index, state-funded media inevitably becomes complicit with the government that funds it. State-sponsored media represents the government to the people, not the people to the government. Democracy requires a strict wall between journalism and the public treasury.

The Mandate for a New Global Body

Eight decades of evidence have rendered an unmistakable verdict: the United Nations is outdated, corrupt, and beyond repair.It must be dismantled and replaced with a new international body governed by a single binding mandate: empirical success across every member state.

Instead of subsidizing collectivist failure or persecuting the Zionist Jewish state—a nation that endured 4,000 years of persecution yet continues to bless the world with innovation and lifesaving aid—this new institution would measure every government by objective human outcomes: life expectancy, education, rule of law, innovation, and freedom, requiring struggling nations to replicate the proven models of Israel, Japan, South Korea, and the United States.

The numbers do not lie, and humanity cannot afford another century of excuses.

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