“Classifying the IDF, one of the most professional and responsible military forces in the world, alongside terrorist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram is an absurdity.”
And more than an absurdity: it’s a monstrous injustice, and it clearly demonstrates the perfidy of the United Nations, which at this point is little more than a tool of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The U.S. shouldn’t just slash funding to it, but defund it altogether, withdraw from it, and expel it from New York.
“Trump Admin, Congress Seek to Slash U.N. Funding in Wake of New Anti-Israel Action,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, March 2, 2017:
The White House and Congress are considering slashing U.S. funding to the United Nations in light of its most recent effort to declare the Jewish state’s fighting forces a chief violator of children’s rights, according to multiple conversations with U.S. officials.
The U.N. is working to add the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, to a list of entities such as terror groups that are responsible for inhumane acts against children.
The move would be just the latest anti-Israel salvo by the U.N., which caused controversy late last year when, with the backing of the Obama administration, it moved to condemn Israel for building homes for Jewish people in Jerusalem.
The latest action against Israel would add the IDF to the Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflicts, which would designate the Jewish state’s fighting forces as one of the worst offenders of children’s human rights in the world. Other groups and entities on the list include terrorist entities and forces that kill children en masse.
The move has prompted outrage in the White House and on Capitol Hill, where multiple U.S. officials told the Washington Free Beacon that they will no longer stand by as the U.N. singles out Israel for criticism. The effort to counter what they described as the U.N.’s anti-Israel bias is likely to include cutting a large portion of U.S. funding to the organization.
One senior White House official familiar with the Trump administration’s thinking on the matter told the Free Beacon that the president and his senior-most advisers are sick of seeing Israel treated as a pariah by the U.N.
“The Israeli Defense Forces are among the most humane, professional armed forces on the planet,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak on record. “Israel has been aggressively refining its protocols to minimize civilian casualties—so much so that after the 2014 conflict in Gaza the United States sent a delegation to study their best practices.”
The White House official signaled that the Trump administration would pursue a vastly different approach to the U.N. than its predecessor.
The Obama administration came under criticism from the pro-Israel community on numerous occasions for failing to defend Israel adequately in the face of international criticism. This culminated in a flurry of anger late last year when the Obama administration, in one of its final official acts, permitted the U.N. to officially chastise Israel in a break with decades of U.S. policy.
“In a region where the use of civilians, including children, as human shields is routine, singling out Israel for condemnation is, in a word, ridiculous,” the White House official said. “If the United Nations’ Watchlist on Children and Armed Conflict has nothing better to do with the United States taxpayer dollars that fund it than engage in a vendetta against our ally Israel, perhaps we should rethink that support.”
Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill.), a vocal defender of Israel, expressed disappointment in the U.N.’s latest action. He told the Free Beacon that Congress is prepared to reduce U.S. financial support for the U.N., which comprises a significant share of the organization’s operational budget.
“The United States Congress is already taking a serious look at United Nations funding levels in light of a number of recent actions unfairly targeting Israel,” Roskam said. “Classifying the IDF, one of the most professional and responsible military forces in the world, alongside terrorist groups like ISIS and Boko Haram is an absurdity.”
“If the U.N. goes through with this,” Roskam said, “the calls for reduced funding will grow even louder.”…
concerned canadian says
This has to stop.
Israel is in a no win situation.
Custos Custodum says
Israel has been doing pretty well throughout several decades in a “no win situation.”
Islam the religion of killers says
Israel is like a wound up spring, as soon as one of these 1/2 bit dictatorships think they can take over the world by starting with Israel they will get delt to..
The IDF is one of the best fighting forces in the world, properly funded, properly trained, well resourced ..
miriamrove says
About time! Trump should defund the UN altogether. Besides I don’t understand why we are responsible for 50/%60 of the UN budget while the French/Russins/british and Chinese have the same right to veto. M
Polk1970 says
Excellent point
gravenimage says
True, Miriam.
Paul says
What about Russia? Has it gone to great lengths to protect children in Syria? Yeah, right Oh, and China, that wondrous defender of human rights! What hypocrites!
John Hawk says
The UN needs to go the way of the dodo bird, preserving only tissue samples from a secretary general or two for future scientists to study.
Shmooviyet says
Ha ha– excellent idea.
In a future ideal world not overrun by islamic ‘organizations’ and various other haters of personal liberty.
Polk1970 says
Remember the NAZI War Criminal Kurt Waldheim who HEADED the UN
Emilie Green says
The Birchers started their “Get the US Out of the UN, and the UN Out of the US” campaign back in 1961.
Nigel GFF says
Of all the misnomers this ranks in the top 10.
United, bah.
Mr Spencer rightly points to this ‘tool’ as ripe for defunding and perhaps relocating – may I suggest the multi-lingual Brussels.
Carolyne says
Brussels would be about right. They can become part of the EU.
mortimer says
British Col. Richard Kemp called IDF ‘the most moral army in the world’.
https://youtu.be/tN1MkAGuVyY?t=157
Angemon says
Cutting funding to the UN? Go for it.
Westman says
No country with a well-behaved people and government needs the UN. There are trade organizations, military defense pacts, and banking institutions that can function on a world level, quite adequately, without the UN.
Like Congress, the UN has become a mainly do-nothing organization in which failing entities spend the money of the major contributors to blame their societies failures on those same contributors and manipulate the UN for political advantage. Frankly, it’s a den of too many parasites – an industry in itself.
The UN motto could be, “The world’s provider of political punching bags, money, and White Helmet targets”.
Tom W Harris says
Drone the UN!
Crusades Were Right! says
US taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to finance an outfit that these days is little more than a stage from which Third World barbarians spout their absurd lies about civilized nations.
To put it another way, one should only be required to buy a ticket for a show one wants to see!
David, Thailand says
The Left is on the march against Trump and everything he represents, which is the salvation of an America that has been severely weakened by decades of rabid liberal/socialist values.
The UN know they have clout, and are too big to fail. They are baiting Trump, and he shouldn’t allow his ego to get the better of him while under siege by an increasingly virulent media and the remnants of desperate Dems with much to gain and little left to lose. His administration is the target in a war of attrition and he should not open a new front, especially with ideological plants in the Oval Office and its precincts.
Back off, take stock, consolidate, and prepare for a head-on clash against some very powerful enemies. This is for real, not a computer game that can be reset when it starts going wrong, and the future of Western civilisation is at stake.
gravenimage says
Trump administration and Congress seek to slash UN funding in wake of new anti-Israel action
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*Excellent* news.
Matthieu Baudin says
“…The U.S. shouldn’t just slash funding to it, but defund it altogether, withdraw from it, and expel it from New York…”
Don’t agree, that would be too much movement too soon. The U.N. was on balance worth having during the Cold War period as it provided a forum where antagonists had to eye ball one another rather than hide away and fester in their own thoughts. At this stage the U.S. should reduce its funding to a reasonable level and use the forum to speak its mind on anything it chooses. The small number of nations that have consistently and faithfully supported Israel’s right to exist are to be applauded and it’s hard to see how their efforts could have been more effective in the absence of the U.N. or a successor organisation.
dumbledoresarmy says
Certainly a *cut* in funding would make sense.
gee says
The US government spends more on the UN than it does to build US Navy warships. Think about that for a moment.
The US could DOUBLE the size of the US Navy without spending a single extra nickel.
JIMJFOX says
Totally and idiotically FALSE__
U.S. Pays $3B for UN–More Than 185 Other Countries Combined . http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/us-pays-3b-un-more-185-other-countries-combined
Cost of ONE US warship- Gerald R Ford– $13 Billion
Since you are too lazy to do the most basic research, just SHUT UP. The world has enough imbeciles & does not need another one.
Creole Gumbo says
“The U.S. shouldn’t just slash funding to it, but defund it altogether, withdraw from it, and expel it from New York.”
I couldn’t agree more.
Geppetto says
“If the U.N. goes through with this,” Roskam said, “the calls for reduced funding will grow even louder.”…
How loud do they have to get before you useless, gutless politicos actually do more than beat your chests and make idle threats?
Lioness says
God, how I want to see the UN gone and the building flattened to the ground. What monstrosity this organization became, and the waste of money that goes into this islamic entity that exists solely to bash Israel.
Kay says
I think that any country that will not endorse the Universal Declaration of Human Rights should not be allowed a vote in the UN. They could appear as guests but without immunity for crimes committed on American soil and without voting rights in the UN. Otherwise the UN stands for nothing.
James Ray Poteat says
Did anyone realize that the UN is training there troops here in the U.S obama and john kerry signed a small arms treaty with the UN and they planned on using the UN troops to come in and take them from
us. If you refuse then they will be able to shoot you. If they do have UN troops here they need to leave.
obama was probably or was paying far there training and food and a place to stay.I have heard that the closed army bases are using them far training camps.All the Un trucks were being moved around the country. Somebody need’s to have this checked into. If true, then something
needs to be taken care of. Run them out of our country. The UN wants world order and are setting up to
carry it out. Right now we have a armed citizen army and they know it will be a fight You know people with guns can shoot back. The American people are well armed and will stand their ground.