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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres’s decision is “a moral disgrace that proves that Guterres has lost all credibility,” Danny Danon said.
“You can’t call yourself independent when you’re being funded specifically by a government,” Hillel Neuer of UN Watch told JNS.
Jerusalem provided evidence and invited U.N. officials to review allegations of sexual violence, but they declined and ignored facts, Danny Danon said.
“It is critical that we do not continue to rely on failed systems that have further entrenched the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,” the legislators wrote.
The U.N. rapporteur for the Palestinian territories had been sanctioned by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Removing sanctions on the anti-Israel United Nations adviser “will undermine important national security and foreign policy interests of the United States,” the Justice Department said.
“Reconstruction financing will not follow where weapons have not been laid down,” warned Nickolay Mladenov, amid a stalled peace process he largely blamed on the Gazan terror group.
A U.S. district judge ruled that sanctions imposed on Francesca Albanese likely violated her First Amendment rights, despite her not being a U.S. citizen or resident.
The measure is aimed at stopping the PLO ambassador from bidding for the General Assembly vice presidency.
“I would like to see something that says, ‘And here’s what’s going to be there instead,’” Rep. Adam Smith, ranking member of the House Armed Services Committee, told JNS.
In a report delivered to the U.N. Security Council, the board says the terrorist organization’s refusal to give up its weapons remains “the principal obstacle to full implementation” of the Gaza ceasefire.
“We must ensure this failed system doesn’t continue reinforcing the conditions that have fueled terrorism for generations,” the lawmakers wrote.