Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, delivered a hard hitting speech to Tuesday’s meeting of the Security Council on the Middle East, questioning the fundamental commitment of Arab states to securing progress for the Palestinians.
Haley argued that if solidarity with the Palestinians was to be judged by the volume of words expended on the issue in the halls of the UN, “one would come away with an extremely distorted picture.”
“No group of countries is more generous with their words than the Palestinians’ Arab neighbors, and other OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) member states,” Haley told the Security Council.
“But all of the words spoken here in New York do not feed, clothe, or educate a single Palestinian child. All they do is get the international community riled up.”
Haley then highlighted the record of financial support from Islamic countries — radical and conservative states alike — for the Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA.
In 2017, Haley said, “Iran’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Algeria’s contribution to UNRWA was zero. Tunisia’s contribution to UNRWA was zero.”
Haley then turned to those countries who did contribute to UNRWA in 2017 — on a scale from Pakistan at $20,000, through Turkey at $6.7 million, up to the United Arab Emirates with a $12.8 million donation.
“Last year, while Algeria was providing nothing to UNRWA, and Turkey was providing $6.7 million, the United States gave $364 million,” Haley continued. “That’s ten times the combined amounts from every country I just named.”
She added: “And that’s on top of what the American people give annually to the Palestinians in bilateral assistance. That was another $300 million last year, and it averages to more than a quarter of a billion dollars every year since 1993.”
Thursday’s meeting of the Security Council — the 8,316th convened under the heading “The situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question” — also included contributions from Russia, China, Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Claiming that the “Palestinian leadership has been allowed to live in a false reality for too long because Arab leaders are afraid to tell them the truth,” Haley asserted that the “United States is telling them the truth because we care about the Palestinian people.”
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Seems to hit the nail on the head. Do the reps at the UN have to get their ears cleaned out for sound words of truth to penetrate???
What a remarkable woman, a true Oheivess Yisroel! She says it better than us! May Hashem bless her for her efforts on our behalf.
And Hillary B. wanted to be president. What a joke! and disgrace it would have been.
Unbelievable speech. Finally someone said the truth. G-d bless her and the president for picking such a courageous ambassador. She will be the next president after trump. Just watch.!
She should run for president after Trump’s second term! I definitely want to vote for her.
Well said
Nice job Mrs. Hayley! Arab nationalism is very competitive and her words ring true. (This is coming from someone of Lebanese-Syrian Jewish descent!)