Untenable: UN must stop protecting Israels terror foes in Gaza and Lebanon

Picture a United Nations worker.What do you see? A paper-pushing bureaucrat, perhaps, or an ineffective peacekeeper in a blue helmet?Perhaps you should imagine something more nefarious. On Oct.

7, 2023, members of one UN organization, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, actively took part in the Hamas terrorist massacres in Israel.Last week, the Israel Defense Forces confirmed that the terrorist who commanded the attack that led to the abduction of American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin and other hostages was an UNRWA employee.Meanwhile, in the months since Oct.7, members of another UN group, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, provided cover, intentionally or not, for Hezbollah terrorists as they rained down more than 10,000 missiles, drones and rockets on Israeli civilians.The only function UNIFIL performs at this point is to shield Hezbollah’s terrorist operation, which continues to threaten Israel from its northern border. “We were totally subject to Hezbollah,” a former UN peacekeeper told the Danish newspaper B.T.

last month.“We clearly had limited freedom of movement,” the soldier said.“For example, we never operated after dark for fear of Hezbollah.” The United Nations’ ineffectiveness and ineptitude is a long-running narrative among its critics.But this global organization can also be actively harmful.Nineteen UNRWA staff members were internally investigated for taking part in the Oct.

7 invasion and murder rampage that slaughtered over 1,200 innocents and dragged another 240 hostages into Gaza.A top Hamas commander killed in Lebanon turned out to be the principal of a UNRWA school — and the head of the country’s UNRWA Teachers Union.A Hamas command room was discovered inside UNRWA headquarters in Gaza.That’s why last week, Israeli lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve two bills essentially barring the UN agency for Palestinian refugees and their descendants from operating within Israel, and severely curtailin...