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Why Israel Should Close Every UN Office in the Country
(Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs) Lt.-Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch - Last week, the UN Secretary-General included the Israeli security forces in a blacklist of bodies and countries guilty of "conflict-related sexual violence." The UN alleged that Israeli authorities continue to hold over 9,000 Palestinians in detention, never mentioning that the detainees are terrorists, that each is brought before a court, or that thousands of them are convicted offenders. In response, Israel announced that it was cutting all ties with the office of the UN Secretary-General. When it comes to the UN, Israel needs to take a much more aggressive response and should immediately and permanently close every UN office operating in the country. For decades, the UN actively engaged with a host of NGOs, many of which were either fronts for terrorist organizations or had close connections to them. The "evidence" provided by the terrorists was then presented by the UN to the world as legitimate and reliable. A new Israeli government report, Laundering Propaganda: How UN Actors Manipulated Information in the Gaza War (2023-2025), demonstrates how UN officials, with little basis or no basis whatsoever, were at the forefront of distorting reality and promoting blood libels against Israel. There are 22 UN organizations, devoted to the Palestinian cause of destroying Israel, that operate in Israel. 17 have a physical presence in Israel. Every UN organization should be permanently closed and all their UN staffers, together with the Personal Envoy of the Secretary-General, should be expelled. The writer, former director of the Military Prosecution in Judea and Samaria, is director of the Palestinian Authority Accountability Initiative at the Jerusalem Center.