United Nations
The Netherlands’s annual contribution will drop to €1 million within four years.
The United Nations is “voting itself into utter irrelevance,” human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky told JNS.
“The United States cannot be subsidizing an entity that unapologetically supports terrorist organizations like Hamas and works to destroy Israel,” a letter to House and Senate leaders stated.
Danny Danon, the Israeli envoy to the United Nations, stated that the Jewish state is taking “limited and temporary measures” to counter threats arising in the region.
“It’s very selective in the history it is trying to portray,” Jonathan Harounoff, international spokesman for Israel’s mission to the United Nations, told JNS.
A source familiar with the Israeli mission to the United Nations wasn’t aware of the U.N. agency offering the course to officials at the global body.
Some traditional allies of the Jewish state side with Palestinians as an Israeli diplomat slams “reckless disregard for the truth” in resolutions that have been floated this week.
The resolution also demands Israel cease all new “settlement” activities and evacuate all “settlers.”
“We know for certain there was sexual violence that occurred during captivity, and U.N. Women has done absolutely nothing,” said Dana Cwaigrach, of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum.
“On Nov. 29, 1947, our thousands-year-old dream became a reality,” stated the Israeli Foreign Affairs Ministry. “Since then, we’ve been through a lot, but we’ve only grown stronger.”
The arrangement is fragile, and Hezbollah’s intentions of keeping to it are in doubt, Professor Eyal Zisser tells JNS.
UNRWA is linked to terrorism, the U.N. Human Rights Council is a “clown show,” the Briton said.
