FIRST ON FOX: Greater than 100 bipartisan Home lawmakers are warning that the United Nations’ funding might be on the road if the worldwide entity retaliates in opposition to Israel over its warfare with Hamas.
“We write to express our deep concern about prospective efforts of the Palestinian Authority to downgrade Israel’s status at the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) and strip the State of Israel of its key privileges in the body,” a letter led by Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla, learn.
“Any downgrade in Israel’s status or standing at the UNGA will result in a corresponding downgrade of U.S. financial, material and political support to the U.N.”
The message, despatched to U.N. Secretary-Common António Guterres, was signed by 105 of their Republican and Democrat colleagues.
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Reps. Mike Lawler and Jared Moskowitz, proper, are main a bipartisan warning to the United Nations over Israel. (Getty Photographs)
Signatories embrace all of the Home Republican management, together with Home Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and 10 Home Democrats, along with Moskowitz – a testomony to the numerous assist Israel continues to obtain from Congress, significantly within the Home of Representatives.
The lawmakers stated they had been “outraged” by the UNGA’s current adoption of a decision demanding Israel return all land and property it settled within the Palestinian Territories since 1967. It additionally calls on nations to halt treaty and commerce relations with Israel the place Palestinian territories are concerned.
They warned the choice, significantly because it pertains to forcing Israel out of the West Financial institution, is “undercutting Israel’s right to defend itself” from Hamas after the Oct. 7 terror assault by the Palestinian militant group “with no recognition or consideration of Israel’s legitimate security concerns.”
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds indicators as he addresses the 79th session of the United Nations Common Meeting. (AP Photograph/Pamela Smith)
“Congress has taken note of the numerous U.N. actions aimed to delegitimize Israel’s right to self-defense, raising serious questions over the future of U.S. funding to the U.N.,” the lawmakers wrote. “We remind you that the U.S. is the largest donor to the U.N. Our contributions account for one-third of the body’s collective budget.”
The letter additionally accused the U.N. of getting “definitively taken sides against Israel,” reasonably than remaining a “neutral body.”
“We will not accept the U.N.’s ongoing hostility to our ally Israel,” they wrote.
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It comes as cease-fire talks are anticipated to restart after Israeli forces killed Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar, the architect of the Oct. 7 assault.
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Israel has loved a degree of regular assist in Congress all through its warfare in Gaza, whilst a rising variety of Democrats are criticizing the Center Jap nation for the scores of Palestinian deaths prompted as it really works to eradicate Hamas.
Roughly half of congressional Democrats skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handle to a joint session of the Home and Senate earlier this yr.
