Trump’s UN nominee calls for dismantling of UNRWA
President Trump’s pick for US ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, says the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, “must be dismantled”.
“UNRWA in Gaza, with its staff involved in the October 7 massacre, its schools teaching anti-Semitic hate, must be dismantled,” Waltz said during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing. “It simply not only needs to be defunded … but it should be dismantled.”
In August last year, the United Nations said that nine UNRWA employees who “may have been involved” in the October 7 attack on southern Israel by Hamas had been fired.
Waltz, a former US national security adviser, was removed from the post after accidentally adding a journalist to a private Signal chat discussing secret military plans.
He told senators that UNRWA cannot be trusted with a humanitarian role in Gaza. “We can have a conversation on who and what can take up those humanitarian roles, but it certainly should not be UNRWA.”
Addressing Israel’s war on Gaza, Waltz said: “If Hamas would lay down their arms… the fighting would stop today.” He also pledged to veto “one-sided anti-Israel resolutions” at the UN.
Lies, incompetence, delusional, fits for a Trump nominee.
Can Hague Group bring a halt to Israel’s war on Gaza?
According to The Hague Group, states meeting in Colombia will announce “concrete actions to enforce international law through coordinated state action – to end the genocide and ensure justice and accountability”.
Analysts say it’s not clear whether the conference’s participating countries have enough leverage over Israel to force it to change its policies in Gaza.
“The United States has so far failed to influence Israel’s behaviour… so it is naive to think that this group of countries can have any influence over Netanyahu’s behaviour or on the government of Israel,” said Sandra Borda, a professor of international relations at Bogota’s Los Andes University.
She said, however, that the conference will enable some nations of the Global South to clarify their position towards the conflict and have their voices heard.
Err USA has refused to stop Israel and is only further encouraging genocide and ethnic cleansing with more weapon shipments, bulldozer shipments, funding/defending/staffing the GHF and so on.
We don't need more voices, actions are needed. And the Global South is still profiteering from the genocide.
https://www.brasildefato.com.br/2025/06/17/despite-critics-brazilian-government-still-provides-petrol-for-israeli-tanks-and-airplanes-to-kill-palestinians/
Colombia and Brazil have indeed taken steps but it's not enough and the Global South can certainly do more.
The Global South can influence Israel's behavior with sanctions, breaking ties, stop the arms trade.
‘Extremely dangerous message to atrocity crime perpetrators’
Protests across Europe continue, including a small one outside the European Council, where foreign ministers discussed Israel’s devastating war and blockade on Gaza. Dozens of protesters in Brussels called for more aggressive EU action to stop Israel’s bloody military campaign.
Alexis Deswaef, the vice president of the International Federation for Human Rights, said the council must “agree on a package of sanctions for Israel to end the genocide and for humanitarian aid to enter Gaza”.
“It was able to do this for Russia,” he said.
Human rights groups have largely criticised the EU’s actions as insufficient.
“This is more than political cowardice,” said Agnès Callamard, the secretary-general of Amnesty International. “Every time the EU fails to act, the risk of complicity in Israel’s actions grows. This sends an extremely dangerous message to perpetrators of atrocity crimes that they will not only go unpunished but be rewarded.”
