When do we stop pretending that the United Nations (UN) is a serious organization dedicated to world peace and harmony, instead of a joke organization that has been co-opted by some of the worst people in the worst countries of the world?
Here is the latest dose of reality, via excerpts from Josh Christenson’s article in the New York Post:
More than 100 staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) for Palestinian refugees have been referred for suspension or debarment from taking US taxpayer dollars after a federal watchdog found they had helped Hamas carry out the Oct. 7, 2023, terror attack against Israel.
The US Agency for International Development’s Office of Inspector General (USAID) submitted 101 more names for debarment or suspension based on their “participation” in the attack that killed 1,200 in Israel — including 46 US citizens — or “affiliation” with Hamas’ military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades.
“Among the individuals referred were UNRWA school principals, teachers, security personnel, attendants, psychosocial counselors, and medical professionals,” the USAID OIG investigative summary stated.
One of the UNRWA staffers was a deputy school principal who also served as an al-Qassam deputy commander. Another deputy school principal was also a squad leader in a Khan Younis brigade.
Five employees of the UN agency had been teachers while simultaneously serving as military or intelligence officials in Hamas or its affiliated terror forces in the Gaza Strip. The report itself doesn’t ID the employees beyond their profession.
One of those teachers even moved anti-tank missiles to assist the terror group during the Oct. 7 massacre.
Does that look like a neutral, peace-loving organization to you? I assume the answer is no.
And this is just one of many, many examples showing how far this organization has fallen.
Bottom line: whatever the UN originally was, whatever it was intended to be, it is not any more.
When do we, as members of the Security Council with the ability to veto anything voted on by the organization, demand that either it acts responsibly or we will leave it — maybe to organize a new, different organization that will perform the way the UN is supposed to?
When do we at least threaten to do so? When do we do something/anything that might change the course of the UN from what it has become to what it was supposed to be? Will that day ever come?
I certainly hope so.
