Americans of most political persuasions tend to view the United Nations as corrupt and morally inverted. An organization supposedly dedicated to the “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” regularly overlooks abuses by the world’s worst actors (Cuba, North Korea, China, just to name three) while expending vast quantities of outrage at the efforts of one tiny democracy, Israel, to defend itself.

When the United States stands with Israel against the U.N. lynch mob, it restores ballast to the moral universe. What should be up is up, and what should be down is down. I kept a photograph of Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN in the 1970s, on my wall for many years. Scowling with disgust at the corruption of the idea of human rights in the UN, he held his hand high to veto the infamous “Zionism is Racism” resolution. Steady American diplomacy under later presidents got the foul thing revoked in 1991.