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Another Look at the United Nations
Historian Niall Ferguson in his monumental The Square and the Tower argues that hierarchies ensconced in (metaphorically) high towers have claimed to rule over the globe and arrange for its affairs but that real change and innovation are the product of a network society living down below in the public square. Unfortunately, this distinction is no longer as feasible as it may sound. The tower continues to dominate, to exert its malign control, and one of its major battlemented segments is the United Nations which, as Thomas Sowell would say, is a citadel inhabited by the anointed class of global raptors.
A recent example of the UN’s reach for world hegemony is its much-ballyhooed Summit for the Future (alternatively, the Pact for the Future). As the Free Humanity movement argues, the pact represents a consolidation of power, concentrating global influence over critical issues like climate policy, digital governance, and human rights in the hands of an irresponsible few. With limited democratic oversight and no citizen involvement, it works to undermine the ability of nations to determine their own policy and seeks to advance the re-invention of the political world as a globalist autocracy. The emphasis will fall on the censoring of so-called “disinformation” and “misinformation” — completely nebulous categories intended to stifle public dissent — and the imposition of greater restrictions on free speech.
What else has this esteemed organization been up to lately? As Rick Moran reports for PJ Media, “Volker Türk, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, claims that [Israel’s] pager attacks using Hezbollah electronics not only ‘violated international human rights law’ but also appear to violate international humanitarian law’s key principles.” Of course, international law does not apply to Hamas, which slaughtered over 1,400 Israelis, mainly civilians, in its infamous October 7 attack, or to Hezbollah that has been raining rockets on Israel’s northern communities for years. UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) promised to enforce UN Security Council Resolution 1701, which barred Hezbollah from re-militarizing south of the Litani River in Lebanon yet refused to honor the Resolution while Hezbollah re-armed, restocking its missile supply via Iran and Syria. And, as we now know, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) has collaborated for many years with Hamas and even participated in the bloody incursion into Israel on October 7.
Jack’s Note: I was in Cyprus for six months in 1974-1975 as part of a UN Peace Keeping contingent (1 RCR) sent by Canada to help keep the peace. I felt so angry about what I saw there I damned near threw the UN decoration I received in the garbage. I still may. I’ve never liked being used, especially by a gang of incompetent idiots, and as David so capably points out it’s far past time this politically selected gang of kleptocrats were put out to pasture. They serve (as Oliver Cromwell pointed out so long ago) no useful purpose I can see and it’s time to end this charade.
Why they fear Trump…
U.S. Contributions The United States is the largest financial contributor to the U.N. system, providing 22% of the U.N. regular budget and 28.43% of U.N. peacekeeping budgets. In FY2017, it contributed more than $8.5 billion to U.N. entities through the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs (SFOPS) appropriations act. Congress usually authorizes the majority of U.S. contributions to the U.N. system as part of Foreign Relations Authorization Acts, with appropriations provided to the Department of State and U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to meet obligations. When authorization bills are not enacted, Congress has waived the authorization requirements and appropriated funds through annual SFOPS appropriations acts. The Trump Administration’s FY2018 and FY2019 budgets proposed significant reductions in U.N. funding.
When will enough ever be enough? That answer should be NOW! Suspend ALL western funding to the UN until it can prove unequivocally that it has NO terrorists or terrorist sympathizers on its payroll. Vigorous background checks. Polygraph everybody. It’ll take time, but it’ll be amazing how little time with the $$$ spigots turned off. ZERO tolerance.
UNRWA may not be a “terrorist body,” as Israel is (understandably) considering designating it, but there is no doubt that UNRWA is a terrorist enabler. That is true through the organization perpetuating the Palestinian “refugee crisis” in order to justify its continued existence. It is true through UNRWA’s headquarters housing an underground Hamas military compound (about which, again, UNRWA claims to somehow have had no idea). And it is true through the fact that it has once again been revealed that UNRWA was employing terrorists.
The U.N. should not get a single cent from America’s taxpayers for its litany of failures, and the chief failure among it is the employment of terrorists who killed and captured Americans as members of Hamas. Democrats are too cowardly to do anything here, but there is no doubt a Republican Congress and a Republican president should bring the hammer down on the U.N. and UNRWA.
The United Nation’s terrorist enablers don’t deserve American funding – Washington Examiner
People need to read this. David Solway is correct and far more able to spell out Israel’s position than I am. I despise the UN with a passion and I will never change my mind about this gang of lefty sychopants who managed to seize power over an organization which was created only to do good.
They have corrupted it and in the process they have destroyed it…just like they did with the League of Nations.
What’s that old saying?
“No good deed goes unpunished!”
“Yes”…That’s it!
And in the process Israel is going to ruin an organization that Canada should have left long ago. I support Paul Martin in that view. He felt (somewhere) that Canada should leave the UN and start something new. That was years ago but I still recall it and as time moves on Israel has proven him correct.
They are a gang of political idiots!
“Nuff said!”