Сборник рассказов "Страсти" Зингер впервые опубликовал в 1976 году. Его герои - соплеменники автора, разбросанные судьбой по всему миру, пережившие Холокост исумевшие сохранить веру в добро и благородство - а также способность подсмеиваться над собой. Они любят и ненавидят, изучают Тору и грешат, философствуют и совершают глупости - в общем, живут, как все люди.Читать книгу можно здесь: "Страсти" online
From Publishers WeeklyFar from fulfilling its founding mandate to stop aggression and protect human rights, the U.N. "makes matters worse," argues Gold, Israel’s U.N. ambassador from 1997 to 1999. In this vigorous if one-sided polemic, Gold contends that the U.N. has proved unable to forestall or resolve international conflicts: its peacekeeping forces allowed genocide to proceed in Rwanda and Bosnia; it has failed to curb terrorism and nuclear proliferation; and it has allowed the General Assembly to become a forum for the anti-Western demagoguery of authoritarian regimes.
The U.N.’s rigid stance of "impartiality" leads it to accord "moral equivalence" to every party, no matter how stark the contrast between aggressors and victims—a lack of "moral clarity" that Gold finds particularly galling when the U.N. has criticized or obstructed Israel or the U.S. Gold covers many of the salient international crises, from the U.N.’s founding to the current war in Iraq, paying special attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict. His indictment is sometimes telling and sometimes tendentious. His criticism of the U.N. inspection programs and sanctions against Iraq, for example, obscures the fact that they succeeded in disarming Saddam. And his assumption that moral clarity alone should be sufficient to unite the world’s democracies behind American leadership will strike some as willfully naïve.“Dore Gold’s excellent book Tower of Babble documents the UN’s shortcomings.” —New York Sun
Using internal UN documents and classified cables, Gold presents stark evidence of how the UN ignores mass murder, emboldens terrorists, props up dictators, and otherwise betrays its mission to protect the world’s security. Tower of Babble reveals:• Why America can—and indeed must—go outside the UN to address the most serious threats to national security• How the UN jeopardizes the success of the war on terror—and how terrorist groups have actually penetrated UN organizations• How, in the space of a year, the UN turned a blind eye to two horrifying episodes of mass murder—and why the slaughters could have been prevented• How the oil-for-food scandal only hints at the UN’s repeated failures to deal with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq• How the UN’s new international criminal court threatens America’s sovereignty• How the UN’s startling record of failure has led Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, Clinton, and George W. Bush to bypass the UN Security CouncilAs this hard-hitting book reveals, it is, quite simply, a myth that the United Nations is a positive force for world order or the “sole source of international legitimacy.” And unless the United States and its allies recognize this now, they will continue to put themselves at risk."For anyone wondering what's wrong with the United Nations, this is the book to read. Providing both a concise history and an urgent warning for our own time, Dore Gold in clear and lively detail explains how and why the UN too often promotes not peace, but problems--and what we can do about it."--Claudia Rosett, columnist, the Wall Street Journal's Opinionjournal.com
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Сборник рассказов "Страсти" Зингер впервые опубликовал в 1976 году. Его герои - соплеменники автора, разбросанные судьбой по всему миру, пережившие Холокост и
The U.N.’s rigid stance of "impartiality" leads it to accord "moral equivalence" to every party, no matter how stark the contrast between aggressors and victims—a lack of "moral clarity" that Gold finds particularly galling when the U.N. has criticized or obstructed Israel or the U.S. Gold covers many of the salient international crises, from the U.N.’s founding to the current war in Iraq, paying special attention to the Arab-Israeli conflict. His indictment is sometimes telling and sometimes tendentious. His criticism of the U.N. inspection programs and sanctions against Iraq, for example, obscures the fact that they succeeded in disarming Saddam. And his assumption that moral clarity alone should be sufficient to unite the world’s democracies behind American leadership will strike some as willfully naïve.
