Kick UN to the curb
Time to de-fund the UN, send them packing
A Palestinian woman stands outside the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City in August 2015. AP photo Khalil Hamra via Times of Israel.
After the Hamas attack in Israel last fall, U.S. leaders are long overdue to strip all U.S. funding from the United Nations and kick it out of the U.S.
Get rid of these elitists who behave like an incompetent and corrupt international debate society, many with antisemitic leanings.
The billions of dollars can be better spent at home–it was $12 billion in 2021.
And perhaps Riyadh, Damascus, Amman, Cairo, Tehran, Moscow, Pyongyang, or Beijing would be a more suitable base for this bungling group of globalists.
That comes after the revelation Jan. 26 that 12 UN employees participated in the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Additionally, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has 12,000 employees tied to the terrorist groups Hamas or Islamic Jihad.
The reaction was immediate. Led by the U.S., at least 20 nations as far away as Japan, Australia, and New Zealand in the Pacific, and Scandinavia and the Baltics in Europe, suspended payments to UNRWA.
After the NYT and WSJ exposed this alarming information, the group UN Watch, whose sole existence is to uncover shocking UN details, reported that:
. . . UNRWA teachers in a 3,000-member UNRWA staff Telegram group cheered and celebrated Hamas’s October 7th massacre while at the same time asking when their UNRWA salaries will be paid. The UNRWA staff in the group shared photos and video footage of those events and prayed for the terrorists’ success and for Israel’s destruction, in clear violation of UN rules.
Over the years, the most prominent criticism was Gazan teachers instructing students to hate Jews. American taxpayers should not subsidize that repugnant behavior. Yet, we have been for years.
This comes on the heels of a UN controversy within three weeks after the Oct. 7 Hamas attack in Israel. This one stirred a diplomatic spat between Israel and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres. CNN reported the following after a UN Security Council meeting on Oct. 24. After calling the attacks “appalling,” Gutteres said:
‘It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum,’ Guterres said. ‘The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their land steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence; their economy stifled; their people displaced and their homes demolished.’
Israel called for Gutteres’s resignation.
After Christmas, UN Women Deputy Chief Sarah Douglas violated its code of conduct for her anti-Israel activity on social media, UN Watch also reported.
When the United Nations was formed in the early 1940s and just after World War II, it was recommended that “a postwar international organization based on the principle of collective security.” Its programs include the International Monetary Fund, the World Health Organization, which took much heat during the covid pandemic, the World Food Program, UNICEF, and about a dozen others.
When international conflicts arise, the UN has had Security Council debates, and in many cases, even established UN peacekeeping forces. It has done some good things over more than 70 years.
However, it’s the inconsistency with legitimate genocides.
It’s the grand hypocrisy of the nations on the UN Human Rights Council, which includes, China, Cuba, Algeria, Eritrea, India, Qatar, Somalia, Sudan, and Vietnam, among others. It’s more like the un-Human Rights Council. All of them violate religious freedoms or worse.
It’s the hyper-focus on climate change when the goal is socialism: give to the poorest nations by taking from the wealthy. This is the case after countless climate change predictions have been found wanting. Their apocalyptic worldview creates fear and not much else.
The UN logo comes from Wikimedia Commons.
An analysis of UN actions on genocides is woeful:
Former UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, acknowledged, for example, that UN troops were pulled out of Rwanda ‘when they were most needed’ and further acknowledged that the innocent at Srebrenica were ‘abandoned to slaughter’ in 1995.
Besides Rwanda and Srebrenica, the UN also had ugly situations with the Yazidis with ISIS, the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, Christians in Nigeria, and elsewhere.
The UNRWA getting exposed carries weight. However, this is not the only scandal involving the UN over time. The Oil for Food Program and scandal emerged in the dozen years between the end of the Persian Gulf War and war in Iraq in 2003.
There was much coverage of this scandal in the U.S. and worldwide. Two of the stories are here and here. The Denver Post report in October 2005 stated:
More than 2,400 businesses, including scores of international shell companies and major blue-chip European firms such as Siemens and DaimlerChrysler, paid nearly $1.8 billion in illegal kickbacks to the former Iraqi government through the U.N. oil-for-food program, according to a report by a U.N. committee investigating misconduct.
The 623-page report, presented Thursday by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, the head of the Independent Inquiry Committee, is the most detailed account of how Iraq persuaded almost half of its 4,500 trading partners in more than 60 countries to circumvent U.N. sanctions by secretly channeling kickbacks into Baghdad-controlled Jordanian banks.
The report also shows how French and Russian diplomats, executives, U.N. officials and anti-sanctions advocates, including a former Vatican official, either solicited oil trade from Iraqi officials on behalf of companies or benefited financially from the program.
More than a dozen people around the world were prosecuted for their role in the scandal.
Gutteres has called for an independent inquiry on UNRWA.
It took an international crisis to expose the UN’s ongoing hatred of Israel.
The U.S. has all of the justifications needed to kick the UN to the curb–although I won’t hold my breath.