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Unfashionable and hazardous as it is to say this, I’m with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Neetanyahu, who tweeted on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inaugural speech to the United Nations, “In over 30 years in my experience with the UN, I never heard a bolder or more courageous speech.”

Moi non plus.

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So refreshingly un-UN-like were Trump’s remarks that given the regularity with which he is parodied, I wasn’t sure if what I was hearing was actually his speech, or some spoof thereof. But it was the real deal.

I have little regard for the UN and its agencies, born of observation and some experience, though hardly as close up as that of this Israeli PM or any other.

Israel is, of course, the target of more vicious UN resolutions than any other country in the world. That Israel is also the only flourishing democracy in the Middle East has done nothing to militate against the routine denunciations against it.