I once read a statistic that of all of the United Nation condemnations
in its history, an inordidornite amount were level against Israel. I
would like the know that amount and the source for this information

Hello.

The statistic that you read seems to be on the mark. Since 1947, a
disproportionate number of U.N. resolutions have involved the
Israeli-Palestinean conflict. In most cases, those resolutions were
critical of  Israel.
 
From the web page, "Arab-Israeli Conflict-Basic Facts":
"Of the 175 United Nations Security Council resolutions passed before
1990, 97 were directed against Israel. Of the 690 General Assembly
resolutions voted on before 1990, 429 were directed against Israel."
http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict.asp

From the article, "Blasting Headlines: U.S. Orders High Alert in
Mideast," by Emanuel A. Winston (23 June 2001)
"Of the 690 General Assembly Resolutions voted on before 1990, 429
were directed against Israel." Available on the web page of
Tzemach.org:
http://www.tzemach.org/fyi/docs/winston/june23-01.htm

A group calling itself "Christian Action for Israel" has additional
statistics on this issue on their web page:
http://christianactionforisrael.org/un/record.html

The same groups also has the text of some resolutions:
http://christianactionforisrael.org/un/resolutions.html

In an article entitled, "THE UNITED NATIONS: IRRELEVANT & MALIGNANT,"
Alan Caruba makes the following assertion:
"Between 1967 and 1988, there were 88 Security Council resolutions
passed against Israel and not one criticizing a single Arab nation or
the PLO. In that same time span, the U.N. General Assembly passed 429
anti-Israel resolutions."
http://www.geocities.com/way_leroy/PCVol4Is63UN.html

Additional information is available in the article, "Israel marks 50
tumultuous years at the United Nations," by Jula Goldman, on the web
site of Jewish San Francisco:
http://www.jewishsf.com/bk990514/iunitednations.shtml

Also see "A List of UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS against Israel" on
the web page of MiddleEastNews.com:
http://www.middleeastnews.com/unresolutionslist.html

On a web page called "Churh & Israel Forum," the following claims is
made:
"On the average, the UN still passes 30 anti-Israel resolutions each
year."
http://www.churchisraelforum.com/why_israel_distrusts_the_united_nations.htm

Also see the article, "What is the evidence that the United Nations is
biased against Israel?" on Palestinefacts.org:
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_faq_palestine_un_anti_israel_bias.php
Also see the article, "The 'United Nations', United Against Whom?
By Natalia Zawidowski,  14 May 2002, available from New Zealand's
"Scoop":
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0205/S00061.htm
search strategy: israel, anti-israel, "against israel," "general
assembly resolutions," "security council resolutions"

I hope this helps. Good luck with your research.

Thank you! This answer was excellent, exactly what I was looking for!
(I am amazed at how quickly and accuratly you responded. Thanks again.

Dear Barry, 

May I only add that in 1975, the UN declared Zionism, the founding
ideology of Israel, as racism. This decleration was annuled only in
1991, after the fall of the Iron Curtain, when these claims of the
Arab States had no support from other UN members (the ex-Communist
block).

However, several political analyst have lately remarked that the Arab
nations continue to use international platforms to advance resolutions
and decisions against Israel. It was apparent in the UN Conference
Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophia and Related
Intolerance (WCAR) in Durban, September 2001. In this conference, the
Arab countries tried to lobby a resolution labeling Israel/Zionism as
racist.
This site provides some (Zionist) insights on Durban:
http://www.jajz-ed.org.il/actual/zr/
Arab Net's opposing views http://www.arabview.com/article.asp?artID=90
(check out also the comments)
Why labeling Zionism as racism is viewed as anti-Semitism: Zionism as
Racism:  Anti-Semitic Slander 
http://www.adl.org/durban/adl_quotes.asp

[As you probably noticed, both in juggler's gerat answer and here,
there have been an attempt to put a balanced view. However, when you
search for yourself, you must use lots of critical thinking, and know
how to depict anti-Semite propaganda when you see it).

To examine the original documents, go to the source. The U.N. provides
a resource with original documents on the "Question of Palestine" at:
http://domino.un.org/unispal.nsf

For more information on the background to these issues than you can
easily read in a dozen sittings, see the resources listed in Google's
directory:
http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Warfare_and_Conflict/Specific_Conflicts/Middle_East/Israel-Palestine/

barrys-ga,

You'll notice that the sea change in the UN began after the Arab oil
embargo of 1973-1974, when Western Europe and many Asian countries
which had previously been friendly to Israel suddenly "discovered"
their error. Despite the recent increases in Russian oil exports, the
mid-size fields dicovered in South America and Africa, not to mention
the controversial Alaskan and deep ocean finds, the vast majority of
the worlds proven oil reserves are under Arab lands. The "oil weapon"
as it is frequently called, has dictated UN policy for the last
quarter century. Sadly, it suits the Arab petrocrats to forment misery
in the mid-east, as their ability to remain in power depends on their
ability to convince their populations that Israel is at the root of
all of their problems.

morris-ga

That's an interesting, somewhat novel, theory, but it overlooks the
prior decades, their associated resolutions, Israel's occupation of
the West Bank, Gaza, Golan Heights and the Sinai following its routing
Syria, Jordan and Egypt in the Six Day War, and, of course, The War of
Independence, The Yom Kippur War, and the Sinai Campaign. All of which
had more than a small impact on Israel's relationship with its
neighbors.

If anything, 1973 was a turning point in Israel's favor when,
pressured by the United States, it reached a peace agreement with
Egypt and normalized relations with that state. Since then it has also
made peace with Jordan.

(For the sake of clarity, the peace deal with Egypt occurred in 1978,
but as a direct result of the aftermath of the 1973 conflict and
associated U.S. pressure.)

Dear Expert Law, 

One can also say the opposite (as many historians actually do). After
the 1973 October war, Egypt realised that it would not be able to win
a military conflict against Israel. Saddat made a choice to turn to
the West considering the above fact as well as a deep economic crisis
(and indeed, Egypt received generous assistance from the US after the
peace accord and is actually today the second in foreign aid after
Israel).

I find Morris' analysis interesting, even if the theory is not
complete.