Former ambassador: U.N. funds terror
Diplomat cites documents captured by Israeli forces
Posted: January 19, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern
2005 WorldNetDaily.com
The former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations says the global body,
through several of its agencies, is funding terrorist organizations.
Citing documents captured by Israeli Defense Force personnel, Ambassador Dore
Gold says funds flowed from the United Nations Development Program, or UNDP, to
two leading Hamas front organizations.
In a column slated to be published today in the Wall Street Journal, Gold said
donations of between $4,000 and $10,000 went to the Tulkarm Charity Committee
and the Jenin District Committee for Charitable Funds.
"Receipts and even copies of thank you notes to UNDP were discovered," he
writes.
Gold says in 2003 Israel asked UNDP to stop funding the organizations, but the
request fell on deaf ears.
"Timothy Rothermel, UNDP's special representative in Jerusalem, turned down the
Israeli request," he writes.
In his piece, Gold points out another U.N. connection to terror:
"Another disturbing connection revealed from captured documents over the last
two years is the support provided by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency
(UNRWA) for the Quran and Sunna Society of Kalkilya."
Gold says UNRWA is " heavily penetrated" by Hamas members.
Yet another U.N. agency has connections to enemies of the U.S., Gold claims.
"In October 2004, the Arab International Forum for Rehabilitation and
Development in the Occupied Palestinian Territory held a conference in Beirut
under the auspices of the U.N.'s Economic and Social Commission for Western
Asia (ESCWA)," he writes. "The conference announced a joint initiative between
ESCWA and the Coalition of Goodness, an organization led by one of the
spiritual heads of the Muslim Brotherhood, Sheikh Yusuf Qaradhawi. Who was this
U.N. partner? A year earlier, Qaradhawi appeared in Sweden and spoke in favor
of suicide operations against Israeli civilians. And two months before the
Beirut conference, he signed a communiqué calling on Muslims to support the
forces fighting the U.S. and the coalition in Iraq."
Gold believes President Bush should kick the U.N. out of the so-called Quartet
working toward Middle East peace.
Writes Gold: "The Bush administration, in its first term, gave the U.N. a
special status in the Arab-Israeli peace process by making it part of the
multilateral 'Quartet' along with the U.S., the EU and Russia. But because of
this behavior on the part of its agencies, the U.N. should not be granted this
kind of diplomatic standing by any of the parties to Middle Eastern
negotiations. How can the U.N. argue that it seeks to advance peace when it is
supporting those who seek to undermine it directly?"
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