Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, delivered a hard hitting speech to Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East, questioning the fundamental commitment of Arab states to securing progress for the Palestinians.
Haley, unlike other Western leaders, is calling out the propaganda spread by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and accepted by the UN Security Council, which routinely slams Israel while expecting no accountability from the Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas, Fatah and the OIC itself. Instead of helping their Palestinian brothers and sisters, Hamas using them as human shields, while the PA pays money to the families of jihad terrorists.
Haley identified a well-used Islamic supremacist tactic: polite and seemingly intellectual loquaciousness to cause distractions and filibustering:
“No group of countries is more generous with their words than the Palestinians’ Arab neighbors, and other OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member states,” Haley told the Security Council. “But all of the words spoken here in New York do not feed, clothe, or educate a single Palestinian child. All they do is get the international community riled up.”
Kudos to Haley. And while these Muslim leaders rile up the international community, it is Western taxpayers who are pouring money into the Palestinian territories, with an unknown amount going toward inciting jihad terror against Israel. Haley also highlighted the 2017 figures on the financial support given to UNRWA of various Muslim countries as compared to the United States, which gave, of course, substantially more money.
Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Danny Danon, emphasized that “the time has come for the Security Council to recognize that Hamas is no different from al-Qaeda or ISIS. The Security Council must recognize Hamas as a terrorist organization.” Such recognition will likely never come, given that jihad appeasement is ever present in the UN and, in fact, worldwide.
“US Ambassador Haley Rips Arab, Islamic States for Posturing at UN on Palestinian Question,” by Ben Cohen, Algemeiner, July 24, 2018:
Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, delivered a hard hitting speech to Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East, questioning the fundamental commitment of Arab states to securing progress for the Palestinians.
Haley argued that if solidarity with the Palestinians was to be judged by the volume of words expended on the issue in the halls of the UN, “one would come away with an extremely distorted picture.”
“No group of countries is more generous with their words than the Palestinians’ Arab neighbors, and other OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member states,” Haley told the Security Council. “But all of the words spoken here in New York do not feed, clothe, or educate a single Palestinian child. All they do is get the international community riled up.”
Haley then highlighted the record of financial support from Islamic countries — radical and conservative states alike — for the Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA.
In 2017, Haley said, “Iran’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Algeria’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Tunisia’s contribution to UNRWA was zero.”
Haley then turned to those countries who did contribute to UNRWA in 2017 — on a scale from Pakistan at $20,000, through Turkey at $6.7 million, up to the United Arab Emirates with a $12.8 million donation.
“Last year, while Algeria was providing nothing to UNRWA, and Turkey was providing $6.7 million, the United States gave $364 million,” Haley continued. “That’s ten times the combined amounts from every country I just named.”
She added: “And that’s on top of what the American people give annually to the Palestinians in bilateral assistance. That was another $300 million last year, and it averages to more than a quarter of a billion dollars every year since 1993.”
The alleged preference among Arab states for solidarity speeches rather than practical action on behalf of the Palestinians was not limited to the funding issue, Haley said.
“Where are the Arab countries when it comes to encouraging reconciliation between Palestinian factions, which is essential to peace?” she asked. “Where are the Arab countries when it comes to denouncing Hamas terrorism? Where are the Arab countries when it comes to supporting compromises that are necessary for peace?”
Claiming that the “Palestinian leadership has been allowed to live in a false reality for too long because Arab leaders are afraid to tell them the truth,” Haley asserted that the “United States is telling them the truth because we care about the Palestinian people.”….