My apologies for not focusing on a positive message this week. Sometimes you just have to tell it like it is.

In the 15th and early 16th Century, the Roman Catholic Church was a globe-spanning endeavor. Under its umbrella were many priests, bishops, and cardinals, but it also was the spiritual and temporal underwriter of kingdoms, countries and colonies. The title ‘His Most Catholic Majesty’ was of common usage. The Church owned vast lands and fiefdoms, had revenue sources everywhere, and enjoyed the legitimacy that power bestows.

That Church destroyed cities and empires, and murdered millions across South America, while pillaging its vast riches.

That Church participated in the enslavement of millions and the trade in slaves from Africa to Brazil.

That Church operated the Tribunal of the Holy Office of the Inquisition, which over a period of hundreds of years arrested, tortured, tried, stole from, raped and burned alive Jews and others who didn’t fit its measurements of piety and heresy.

That Church produced cruel, bloodthirsty monarchs like Ferdinand and Isabella, and demonic torturers like Tomas de Torquemada.

Despite this, by the late twentieth century there seemed to be real, positive change, and that is to be celebrated. By then, the well meaning Pope John XXIII was still trying to wash the blood off of the hands of the Church, with limited success. And now, a Pope seen as ‘Progressive’ spreads the ‘genocide’ lie, once more using the horrific blood libel against the Jewish state.

Can we still possibly be surprised?

Today’s reflection of that globe-spanning adversary is the United Nations, its proxies, its agencies, and its lickspittle useful idiots who ‘lead’ countries like Canada, Spain, and Ireland.

Yesterday, the International Criminal Court, which has no jurisdiction, is led by an alleged sexual abuser and definite apologist for sadistic regimes, and has not issued a warrant for actual heads of state who have presided over the deaths of hundreds of thousands or millions, people like Xi Xin Ping, MBS, and Bashar al Assad (who weren’t responding to foreign invasion, rape, torture and pillage), issued warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Gallant.

The day before, the General Assembly of the UN voted on another in its never ending cycle of resolutions decrying Israel.

Hours before, the Security Council would have endorsed a call for ceasefire in Gaza not connected to the release of the hostages if not for the US veto.

The cretins at the UNHRC continue to malign and libel Israel, while the miscreants at UNESCO continue to deny Jewish peoplehood, indigeneity and connection to our roots.

UNRWA claims 240 of its employees have been killed by Israel, but refuses to release their names for fear of public disclosure of how many more of them were also Hamas operatives.

UNIFIL ignores UNGA 1701 for 18 years and then complains when Israel pursues the terrorists who have been firing rockets from underneath their watchtowers.

The entire edifice is rotten. You can find today’s Torquemada at the head of the ICC, today’s King Ferdinand in the Secretary General’s office, and a generous sprinkling of incompetent liars like Kofi Annan and vicious Nazis like Kurt Waldheim held up as paragons of international virtue.

I make the comparison above to assure you that what was once atop the world had to change and the jury’s still out on if it will fall as an institution. The UN, founded on high ideals but now corrupted by terror regimes, their supporters, their apologists, their fellow travelers, and their useful idiots, is no different. History teaches us that there’s one future for the enemies of the Jewish people. A short one.