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Against the backdrop of a four-front war for Israel's survival, the United Nations, with the support of anti-Israel elected officials such as the United States, ensures that UNRWA continues to brainwash generations of Palestinian children. I am traveling around in a wagon for this purpose. Denies the 3,500-year-old connection of Jews to the Land of Israel and the legitimacy of the Jewish state.
A new bill introduced by anti-Israel members of Congress calls for the United States to resume funding for UNRWA, which is currently blocked under U.S. law. The initiative comes as the United Nations insists that all UNRWA personnel are legally immune from any prosecution.
This includes UNRWA personnel who are likely members of Hamas and who took part in Hamas' crimes against humanity in southern Israel on October 7, where 1,200 Israelis, including entire Jewish families, were killed. People were murdered and mutilated in large numbers. Young Israeli women raped in peaceful communities and Nova Peace concerts, hundreds kidnapped alive and dead, brutalized by Hamas in exchange for the release of thousands of Palestinian terrorists held by Israel and bartered with them.
Philippe Lazzarini, Director-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), will hold a press conference in Jerusalem on October 27, 2023. (Mostafa Alkharouf/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The audacity and hypocrisy of the new pro-UNRWA campaign is breathtaking. The United Nations has done less than zero to free the innocent hostages taken by Hamas on October 7th. Indeed, UN officials and special rapporteurs have remained eerily silent and, worse, condoned Hamas's brutal pogroms.
UN Secretary-General defends UNRWA, saying only “a small number of forces'' participated in October 7
And when it comes to the United Nations, words spoken and unspoken matter.
UN officials we met recently refused to classify Hamas as a terrorist organization. This policy has enabled UNRWA Director-General Philippe Lazzarini to argue that the United Nations “Hamas is not a terrorist group… it is a political movement.”
Lazzarini declined to say whether UNRWA even considers Hamas an “extremist or armed group.” He did not say that membership in an armed group was sufficient reason for UNRWA not to employ or terminate a person's employment.
Lazzarini has not taken any steps to enforce the ban on membership in armed groups, much less take steps to ensure donor countries identify and fire employees who are members of armed groups. Not taught.
Israel's UN ambassador accuses world body of UNRWA being taken over by Hamas terrorists in Gaza
He has not investigated, suspended or fired the 100 UNRWA employees whom Israel claims are Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad military operatives.
The bottom line is that the day after the war in Gaza ends, absent strong opposition from the United States, Hamas remains well-positioned to regain the reins of power over the lives, minds, and spirits of the Gazan people. The hearts of Palestinian children.
A few months ago, I had the opportunity to speak directly with Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the State Department. I told him that UNRWA cannot be part of a “next day” solution for Gaza, which has been a core issue for decades.
For now, US plans for the next day in Gaza remain unclear.
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Events on the ground, and the UN's blood-curdling indifference to Jewish lives and Jewish livelihoods, make us fear for the future of Palestinian children and Israeli children, from Sderot to the Golan Heights. It just strengthens it.
Will Americans support a return to business as usual in UNRWA and Gaza from both Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump, or will generations of Jewish and Arab children yet to be born? have a right to be heard about whether they choose to forge a new path towards peace. Without this failed United Nations agency.
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