If the U.N. appears to single Israel out, it is because the country owes its existence to that body and has repeatedly defied principles it agreed to when it gained membership at the U.N. “The failure to achieve an Arab-Israeli peace remains for the UN a deep internal wound as old as the organization itself, (…) a painful and festering sore consequently felt in almost every intergovernmental organ and Secretariat body,” Kofi Annan said.