By Lucy Komisar
Jan 29, 2026

At a Council on Foreign Relations reception last night I met Therese Marie Postel, who told me she worked at the UN for the U.S. State Department. We were at a drinks table before a meeting. She said she wrote the Board of Peace (ie the U.S. seizes Gaza) UN Security Council resolution. (Three others heard the conversation.) I said, “But the Palestinians…” She grabbed her wine and beat a hasty retreat. But now history knows who wrote that imperialist decree: it was crafted by Therese Marie Postel. (Po******@***te.gov as posted by www.securitycouncilreport.org/). She smiles, Palestinians die.

The Council meeting that followed presented Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis interviewed by MSNOW anchor Katy Tur. The subject was Greece’s approach to evolving U.S. foreign policy, NATO, Middle East. An obvious first question should have been about Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s “rule of law” statement at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos that challenged U.S. hegemony and said “rule of law” was used against the Global South, not applied to the West.

Carney, a former central banker for both Canada and the UK, critiqued “rule of law” as a weaponized tool of geopolitical power rather than a universal principle. He argued that the “rules-based international order” is systematically enforced against the Global South but is not applied to the West or its allies. “Rule of law” rhetoric is used to maintain hegemony, an instrument used to uphold U.S. and Western dominance under the guise of neutrality and universal standards.

Carney’s critique directly undermines the legitimacy of actions like a U.S.-backed resolution to seize Gaza, revealing such a move not as lawful governance but as an exercise in the power politics Carney denounced. But Tur said not a word about this, asked no question about the application of Carney’s statement to the subject of the meeting: U.S. foreign policy, NATO, the Middle East. Then the foreign minister himself mentioned “rule of law.” Still no question, just pablum. (Which is why I have not watched the legacy broadcast media for years!)

After the Council meeting, I asked Tur why she didn’t ask the Greek foreign minister about Carney’s “rule of law” statement. She turned, grimaced and escaped. I asked FM Gerapetritis what he thought of Carney’s statement. He hemmed & hawed like the apparatchik he is. Alas, mediocrities all the way down.

Such evasive choreography among officials, journalists, and diplomats—where hard questions are dodged with a grimace and the language of “rule of law” is rendered hollow—brings us back to the foundational crime. The entire episode lays bare the corrupt machinery that seeks to normalize and facilitate Donald Trump’s planned takeover of Gaza, a flagrant and gross violation of international law. From the drafter of the resolution to the interviewer who won’t ask to the politician who fumbles his ethics, the system is revealed not as a guardian of order, but as a club of enablers, smoothing the path for lawless conquest while the world watches and the powerless pay the price.