Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
The report is “an embarrassment to the United Nations and a disservice to genuine human rights accountability,” Dina Rovner, of U.N. Watch, told JNS.
“These findings provide further evidence of attempts by terrorist groups to exploit civilian infrastructure for terrorist purposes,” said the military.
“A museum that purports to tell stories about history does not get to change history,” Mark Berlin stated.
The Jewish state, by contrast, absorbed Holocaust survivors, Jews expelled from Arab states and others who did not maintain their refugee status.
It’s “difficult to believe” anyone would look to the P.A. as a viable partner, said Maurice Hirsch, director of the Initiative for Palestinian Authority Accountability and Reform.
Mahmoud Abbas’s latest electoral reforms amount to political theater designed to appease international donors while leaving the P.A.’s anti-democratic and pro-terror culture intact.
Officials, watchdogs and victims’ advocates say the Palestinian Authority continues paying stipends to convicted terrorists and their families, and criticize loopholes in international donor funding and oversight mechanisms.
The international political and legal community traditionally attempted to impose ineffective and unrealistic third-party solutions.
The funding of the Palestinian Authority continues despite its violations of commitments to stop supporting terrorism.
The Trump administration has refused entry to a handful of delegates.
“The UN’s methodology is unreliable, as it has traditionally counted as ‘settler violence’ even incidents of self-defense by Jews,” international law expert Eugene Kontorovich told JNS.
NGOs abused the system to carry out political advocacy, and even justify cooperation with terrorists.
