The world is insane, but that’s its normal state. We now have al-Qaida leaders who are about to be released from prison, the United Kingdom, France, and Canada are about to recognize a Palestinian “state,” and a hostage held by Hamas was photographed digging his own grave.
In Inside the Asylum I specifically warned that the UN was employing terrorists, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
There is famine in the Gaza Strip but Israel isn’t the cause. Hamas’s sympathizers, including UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, French President Emanuel Macron, and Canadian PM Mark Carney, are supporting Hamas’s continued rule in Gaza by proposing to recognize a Palestinian “state” in the UN’s September session.
Ghazi Hamad, a senior member of the Hamas politburo, said the wave of Western nations moving to recognize a Palestinian state is the result of “the fruits” of Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre. That is one of the very few Hamas statements that is provably true.
The three so-called “leaders” are threatening Israel that if it doesn’t meet their conditions, they will recognize a “Palestinian state.”
Which raises a subsidiary question, to the effect of why is the United States a member of the United Nations? The UN doesn’t support the U.S.. It opposes most of our allies, Israel in particular. Yet we pay billions of dollars into UN pockets, most of which is wasted on corrupt and unproductive programs.
The answer to the question of why the U.S. is in the UN is that when the UN was established, the UN Security Council was empowered so that its resolutions were supposedly given the force and effect of international law. Every member, when it signs the UN Charter, agrees to accept and carry out the Security Council’s resolutions. We, among the “permanent five” UNSEC members, can veto any Security Council resolution. Thus the need for membership. If we are not a UN member, we can’t protect ourselves and our allies against the “international law” coming from the Security Council.
In 2024 I wrote a book about the UN titled, Inside the Asylum: Why the UN and Old Europe are Worse than You Think. In it, I explained many of the UN’s structural flaws including membership (any terrorist state or thugocracy can be a member). There is no accountability among UN members, and both the General Assembly and the Security Council are broken because the alliances upon which they were founded no longer exist.
In Inside the Asylum I specifically warned that the UN was employing terrorists, including Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
In the past 21 years, the UN hasn’t gotten better: it’s worse.
The UN and UNWRA — the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East — are now refusing to distribute aid in the Gaza Strip unless Hamas participates in the distribution.
As this column has written before, Hamas doesn’t care about the people of Gaza or anyone else: it is only concerned with the orders of its Iranian commanders and its own survival.
Most of us have seen the pictures of Evyatar David, one of the Israeli hostages kept alive by Hamas. He has been starved and, in the latest photos, was reportedly being forced to dig his own grave. He is emaciated, looking like a Holocaust victim. This is how Hamas treats its captives.
Instead of calling for the recognition of a “Palestinian state,” Starmer, Macron, and Carney should be calling for the release of all of Hamas’s hostages.
Hamas isn’t a victim. As Dutch politician Geert Wilders said, victims don’t take hostages or starve them.
A new State Department report has severely criticized UNWRA for what I exposed over 20 years ago: UNWRA employs a substantial number of terrorists. The new report says that UNWRA is beyond reform and should be dismantled.
A State Department spokesman told Fox News that, “As stated in President Trump’s February 4 Executive Order, ‘UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the Secretary of State (Secretary) as foreign terrorist organizations, and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.’ President Trump and Secretary Rubio have long stated that Hamas will never govern Gaza again. That includes institutions they have infiltrated to sustain their power and influence.”
As shocking as that report is (or isn’t), it’s long past time for us to eradicate our contributions to UNWRA and many other UN organizations. Our contributions to UNWRA were reportedly ended in January 2024, months after the Hamas attack on Israel in October 2023. But the European Union nations continue to support it.
There isn’t a lot more to be said about the UN. Hiring terrorists to work for it is probably the worst thing it has done. So far.
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