WTH is the UN so anti-Israel and anti-American? Brett Schaefer Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 30 November 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Why is the United Nations siding with Hamas in its war on Israel? An exaggeration? Nope. The examples are endless. The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), devoted to the question of Palestinian refugees in name, but de facto a front for Hamas; leadership on the UN Security Council and Human Rights Council from China and Iran, setting the anti-Israel agenda; UN employees teaching antisemitic propaganda, promoting Hamas on their personal social media accounts, and blocking condemnation of terrorism. What’s more, all this is paid for, in large part, by the American taxpayer. It’s time to reform the United Nations, or, absent the necessary changes, to cut off their cash.
Brett D. Schaefer is the Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs at Heritage’s Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom. From 2019 to 2021, Schaefer was appointed by the U.N. General Assembly to serve on the Committee on Contributions, which advises the General Assembly on the scale of assessments for the apportionment of the expenses of the United Nations among member states. He worked at the Pentagon as an assistant for International Criminal Court policy from March 2003 to March 2004.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about? |
| 0:23.6 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Mark Tiesen. |
| 0:38.7 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:40.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:44.4 | I use that expression repeatedly throughout this podcast, Mark. |
| 0:45.9 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:47.8 | Well, let me turn it on you, Danny. |
| 0:48.9 | What the hell is going on? Because you've written an amazing essay in National Review, |
| 0:52.6 | the title of which is, |
| 0:54.1 | The U.N UN has been on full |
| 0:56.5 | display since October 7th. The UN, we all know, we're veterans of the UN wars going back to our |
| 1:02.9 | days with Jesse Helms on the Center of Foreign Relations Committee. Has the UN reached peak |
| 1:07.5 | UN at this point? Is this conflict brought out everything that we hate about the United |
| 1:12.9 | Nations on full display for the entire world? I think it has, actually. I just worry that it's not |
| 1:18.4 | going to have any consequences. I mean, we talk in the podcast about some of the problems that we've |
| 1:23.3 | seen over the last couple of months in addition to the problems we've seen over the last, |
| 1:27.8 | you know, 50, 60, 70 years. But thank you for the nice words about my piece. I wrote a piece |
| 1:32.8 | in National Review and just laid out sort of agency by agency what it was that people had been |
| 1:40.9 | saying, including the most senior human rights officials of the United Nations, |
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