Tag Archive for US UN

| June 20, 2018
No comments

U.S. quits UNHRC over “self-serving org that makes a mockery of human rights”

Blaming the ‘disproportionate focus and unending hostility towards Israel’, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley said, “We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights.”

By i24NEWS

 

Slamming the United Nations Human Rights Council for hypocrisy, and “unrelenting” bias against Israel, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley announced on Tuesday the US quits the international body

“We take this step because our commitment does not allow us to remain a part of a hypocritical and self-serving organization that makes a mockery of human rights,” she said. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News | Tags: , , , , ,
| January 8, 2018
No comments

Analysis: Trimming UNRWA aid will not initiate a humanitarian crisis

Shocking revelation from the Lebanese Bureau of Statistics expose how UNRWA radically increased the true number of Palestinian Arabs under its jurisdiction by more than double, for excessive funding.

By Yochanan Visser

 

Last week, both President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the U.N., indicated that the administration was considering completely cutting off US aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East (UNRWA).

On Friday, TV Channel 1 in Israel reported the US administration would freeze roughly a third of the American aid to UNRWA.

The decision was reportedly taken after the Israeli government asked the US to gradually reduce its contribution to UNRWA in order to force the organization to reform and to wean the Palestinian Arabs of the extensive aid the largest UN organization provides to roughly five million Palestinian “refugees” and their descendants. Continue Reading »

Category: Mid-East News | Tags: , , ,
| December 21, 2017
No comments

Former Israeli envoy to the US: ‘The era of American appeasement has ended’

Israel’s former ambassador to the US, Yoram Ettinger, says President Trump’s standing up to the United Nations shows America has returned as the leader of the free world.

By Benny Toker

 

Former Israeli ambassador Yoram Ettinger praised US President Donald Trump’s threat to cut off aid to any country which voted to condemn the US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel at the United Nations General Assembly today, arguing that under Trump, the US had regained its position as leader of the free world.

Speaking at the last Cabinet meeting of 2017, Trump said that the US would take note of the countries which receive hundreds of millions, and even billions, of dollars in US aid, yet still vote against the US at the UN over his acknowledgement of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Continue Reading »

Category: Israel News, Video's worth Viewing | Tags: , ,