United Nations
“The U.N. has continuously betrayed Israel and betrayed America, acting as an apologist for Iran and their terrorist proxies,” the New York congresswoman said at an EMET event.
“We could not support an unconditional ceasefire that failed to release the hostages,” Robert Wood, the deputy U.S. ambassador to the global body, told the council.
In June, the United States shepherded through the council a resolution that called for both a ceasefire and the release of hostages.
Rockets launched by the Iranian proxy hit two UNIFIL bases in Southern Lebanon • Italy’s defense minister initially blamed Israel for one of the attacks.
A UNIFIL spokesman appeared to confirm reporting that Argentinian President Javier Milei decided to exit the U.N. mission on Nov. 1.
Israel’s foreign minister sent a letter to the U.N. Security Council warning that the attacks could “further drag the region in a very dangerous escalation.”
Language removed from the draft following U.S. pressure would have triggered Chapter VII of the U.N. Charter, which empowers the UNSC to take collective action, including the use of force.
The British foreign secretary reiterated the refuted claim that “famine is imminent” in the Strip.
“UNIFIL has a hard time saying who the armed people denying them freedom of movement might be. Hezbollah,” wrote Matthew Levitt, of the Washington Institute.
“We’re a team of about 25 people, and there are maybe 1,000 people that wake up every morning in New York to attack us,” Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon tells JNS.
Member states that really want peace “should seek to end the persistent bias within the United Nations against Israel,” said Nicholas Koval, a U.S. political adviser to the global body.
U.N. official Bertrand Ramcharan called her a “pillar of the human-rights movement.”
