The UN’s War Against the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

Why does the United Nations do everything it can to make it more difficult for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to deliver food aid? It insists that UNRWA must be the only distributor of aid, but UNRWA, as the Israelis have shown, is riddled with Hamas members and sympathizers. Hundreds of UNRWA staff turn out to be members of Hamas; dozens of them took part in the atrocities of October 7, 2023. It is these people who in the past helped Hamas to steal, hoard, and resell aid, at exorbitant prices, to ordinary Gazans. Nor did UNRWA ever object to Hamas using its buildings, especially its schools, and hospitals, to hide both combatants and weapons.

The U.N. is a kangaroo court with the Jewish state perennially in the dock. Were it not for the American veto, the UN Security Council would have been able pass anti-Israel resolutions with real-world consequences, including the demand for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, that would include economic and other sanctions — for instance, an arms embargo — that could do great damage to the Jewish state’s ability to defend itself. Of the 193 members of he U.N. General Assembly, at least 140 have now declared their intention to recognize a “state of Palestine” at the September meeting of the General Assembly, but have said nothing about that Palestinian state’s borders, or who would govern it, and who would pay for it, and whether Hamas would have a role in its governance, and what would happen to the 700,000 Israelis now living in Judea, Samaria, and east Jerusalem. Nor have those UN members explained how they would force Israel to accept such an outcome, given that 80% of Israelis, including many former peaceniks whose minds were forever changed on October 7, 2023, now oppose the very idea of a state of Palestine carved out of Israel’s tiny territory. The Israelis are also keenly aware that Jewish history, over the past 3500 years, was made not in Haifa and Tel Aviv, but in Judea and Samaria. They know that the League of Nations’ Mandate for Palestine assigned all the territory from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean to be included in the future Jewish state. They know that UN Security Council Resolution 242 recognized that Israel must be allowed to retain any territory won in the Six-Day War that it needed for “secure and defensible borders.” The UNGA can pass all the resolutions it wants, but Israel will not give up Judea, Samaria, and east Jerusalem.

Clifford May suggests that the American government cease to provide the U.N. with the $13 billion a year it currently contributes to that corrupt and corrupting institution on the East River, that spreads worldwide its calumny of the Jewish state, accusing it of racism, apartheid, genocide and deliberate starvation. There is neither “racism” nor “apartheid” anywhere in Israel.

Nor does Israel commit “genocide,” which is the latest, and the most preposterous, of the charges leveled at the Jewish state. In 1967 when Israel took possession of Gaza, there were 345,000 Arabs in the Strip; today there are 2.2 million. In 1967, when Israel took over Judea and Samaria, the Arab population was 900,000; today it is three million. In 1949, there were 160,000 Arabs in Israel; today there are two million. Genocide? What genocide?

The U.N. has become the world center of anti-Israel animus and, concomitantly, of antisemitism. Appeals to morality, decency, history do not work, not with a Secretary-General such as Antonio Guterres and a “Special Rapporteur for the Occupied Palestinian Territories” such as the deep-dyed antisemite Francesca Albanese. The Trump administration should cut off all of the money that the U.S. has been sending to the U.N. — some $13 billion, or more than a quarter of the total funds received by that body — and use that money instead to improve the lives of Americans here at home. The U.N. has blotted its anti-Israel, anti-American, and anti-Western copybook too often; its largest bloc consists of the 57 Islamic states; it can’t be redeemed. Let that once-promising body, that has steadily declined in moral and political worth over the decades, be forced to fire at least one-quarter of its staff and to cut back on its programs. A much reduced and demoralized U.N. will continue to exist — though perhaps it will decide to move its headquarters out of the U.S. to Geneva, or Doha — but now with a much smaller staff and a consequently diminished ability to cause mischief, including providing a megaphone for antisemitism, on this, our giddy globe.