Empowering the UN vs. Israel?

I confess, this gets under my skin. In ideal circumstances, the UN would strictly be an organization that provides a forum for international dialogue and diplomacy. Instead, it is treated too often as an unelected higher authority to which all nations should be subjugated. I tend to live in the camp that the UN should not trump any national interests, and that the UN should not have any authority in policing its member states. There are pros and cons to this, of course, but simply put, I believe the UN itself should not have any legal or judicial authority to prosecute nations or individuals in civil, legal or military matters. To allow such power to reside in the UN is to surrender sovereignty.

In the most general sense, the president should be a defender of America and her allies. Despite numerous differences in opinion with regard to policy, I will support a president who seeks to represent the American ideals of freedom and liberty to the world. But I'm finding it difficult to stomach the continuing turn against Israel this administration appears to be taking (emphasis mine):

THE WEEKLY STANDARD has learned that senior Obama administration officials have been telling foreign governments that the administration intends to support an effort next week at the United Nations to set up an independent commission, under UN auspices, to investigate Israel's behavior in the Gaza flotilla incident. The White House has apparently shrugged off concerns from elsewhere in the U.S. government that a) this is an extraordinary singling out of Israel, since all kinds of much worse incidents happen around the world without spurring UN investigations; b) that the investigation will be one-sided, focusing entirely on Israeli behavior and not on Turkey or on Hamas; and c) that this sets a terrible precedent for outside investigations of incidents involving U.S. troops or intelligence operatives as we conduct our own war on terror.

Why on earth are we turning against such a key ally? How does such a step possibly benefit the security interests of America and the Mideast? Is the administration simply trying to curry favor with "the world"?

The world is indeed going mad ... and so, apparently, are we.

Update 4:17pm: According to the Jerusalem Post, the administration is denying any intent to support a UN investigation into Israel's role in the flotilla incident. We'll have to wait and see what actually happens. Here's hoping the original Weekly Standard report isn't accurate.