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The UN Should Stop Funding the Palestinian Narrative

(Jerusalem Post) Daniel S. Mariaschin and Richard Schifter - In the aftermath of the infamous 1975 UN Zionism=Racism resolution, the General Assembly created the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR), each of which advances only one side of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The CEIRPP organizes conferences, exhibitions and other programs aimed at undermining, discrediting and demonizing Israel. It does so with the active cooperation of the UN's Department of Global Communications. The DPR sits inside the UN Secretariat, giving the Palestinians a UN home no other people or sovereign state has. Only in the case of the Palestinians has an infrastructure been established to perpetuate a crisis. The Palestinians have overplayed their hand, pressing for a zero-sum outcome to the conflict with Israel. It is the UN that encourages the Palestinians to hold out for their one-state solution: A "Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea." The CEIRIPP and the DPR are the chief proponents of this campaign. Eliminating the CEIRIPP and the DPR would send a clear message to the Palestinians that the free ride is over. Daniel S. Mariaschin is the CEO of B'nai B'rith International. Amb. Richard Schifter, who died on Oct. 3, was former U.S. ambassador to the UN in Geneva.
2020-10-29 00:00:00
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