Where's the UN when the Super Bowl needs it?

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With the NFL playoffs set to begin this weekend with teams playing their way toward the Super Bowl, Feb. 11, in Las Vegas, fans of the game should feel right to be ready for game stoppages along the lines of when 'streakers' were interrupting sports events in the 70s.

Those streakers are likely to be protesting the military engagement of Israel in Gaza.

Protesters stopped a campaign speech by President Joe Biden on Monday at the Mother Emanuel AME in Charleston, S.C., and have been getting in the way of traffic patterns across the U.S. for weeks. Large sporting events with large TV audiences are natural targets for protesters.

Those protesters are going to be directing a lot of attention toward the U.S and its place in the United Nations, and the lack of the UN to be any kind of resource for a nation involved in being militarily attacked by another. And, the US plays a key role in that within its place on the UN Security Council.

So, are any athletes, any NFL players, going to take a role in protesting what the US is and isn't doing within the UN and the UN Security Council?

The UN Security Council has produced resolutions to tell Israel to stop its invasion of Gaza on three occasions, but the US has vetoed those resolutions all three times. Now, the issue is in the UN International Court of Justice in a case brought forward by South Africa, which made its case today in the Hague in The Netherlands. Israel defends itself on Friday.

The potential streakers have an interesting case to promote in that it was three decades ago this month, in 1991, that the UN Security Council was in a similar situation when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990 and authorized the use of military force to get Iraq to leave. When Iraq did not leave, the US led an international force into Kuwait and defeated their Iraqi counterparts in 100 hours during Operation Desert Storm.

Desert Storm followed what the US labeled 'Operation Desert Shield' in the months after Iraq invaded Kuwait. That operation sent US forces to Saudi Arabia to defend it against any aggression by Iraq toward that nation.

Where's Desert Shield for Gaza? Naked people are probably going to be running across football fields this weekend to promote that question this weekend.

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