The UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, was exposed, after the October 7, 2023 Hamas slaughter of innocents in Israel, as not only directly supporting Hamas and other Islamist terrorists but also having hundreds of terrorists on its payroll. Our media, and the world’s media did their best to obscure that readily available information, like this:
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And this:
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And who can forget this incredibly dimwitted statement from the stupidest and worst Secretary of State America has ever suffered, quoting the equally bad National Security Advisor (note the date):
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In the aftermath of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Nazi death camps of WWII, the UNRWA’s complicity was known, but the media largely chose to uncritically accept blatantly, ridiculously false Hamas propaganda rather than tell the truth about the UN.
Now, that truth is unavoidable:
The federal investigation into staff at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency—the U.N. Gaza relief organization that’s been closely linked to Hamas—will soon encompass at least 1,500 UNRWA-linked individuals suspected of terror ties. This unprecedented dragnet—reported here for the first time by the Washington Free Beacon—exposes an aid group brimming with Hamas operatives, and is generating momentum in Congress and the Trump administration for harsher sanctions on the embattled aid group, according to congressional staffers briefed on the matter.
The shuttering of USAID has not only dried up illicit funding sources for domestic Democrats, it has hampered terrorist-enabling organizations like UNRWA, but more is necessary:
The punitive measures up for consideration include stripping UNRWA of its diplomatic immunity under U.S. law, which would open it up to legal action from terror victims, and fully designating the aid organization as a foreign terrorist organization, according to three Trump administration officials and other sources tracking the matter in Congress.
These discussions have accelerated since the Free Beacon first reported in April that UNRWA and other U.N. agencies are stonewalling a federal probe into their ties to Hamas. The U.S. Agency for International Development inspector general’s office, a law enforcement agency separate from the largely defunct USAID, has spent months independently unearthing evidence that multiple UNRWA employees participated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attack. The probe will soon expand to at least 1,500 suspected militants with UNRWA ties.
This was the kind of story distributed at the time:
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It’s most likely Hamas stole nothing. UNRWA was Hamas, but it was advantageous to pretend otherwise, and the Israelis identified and eliminated many Hamas/UNRWA operatives. The Israelis certainly weren’t fooled, but it was in their interest to let the world know much of the aid they and others were providing never got to the residents of Gaza. The Trump Administration is getting serious about the UNRWA:
“The USAID inspector general’s cases, coming in droves, are corroborating the obvious parent-subsidiary relationship between UNRWA and Hamas in Gaza,” a senior State Department official familiar with the investigation told the Free Beacon. “If UNRWA was not a U.N. organization, it’d be undeniably facing terrorist sanctions based on what USAID IG has uncovered.” That ongoing USAID inspector general investigation, the source said, would logically lead to labeling UNRWA as a foreign terrorist group. If the probe “confirms that if it walks like an FTO and talks like an FTO and employs FTO personnel, a case exists that it should be an FTO.” [skip]
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While the Trump administration stripped virtually all remaining American funding to UNRWA in February, citing its established links to Hamas, the agency still enjoys diplomatic immunity, can access some funds from the larger U.N. budget, and has facilitated Hamas’s continued control over aid distribution in Gaza.
“Without immunities,” the source explained, “there is a potential exposure to an FTO [Foreign Terrorist Organization] designation and massive lawsuits, which would then be for the courts to adjudicate.” Additionally, UNRWA funding remains “a line item in the U.N. budget, and there’s still American taxpayer dollars going towards that, and that’s unacceptable.”
Congressional Republicans, but unsurprisingly, few if any Democrats, are also ready to deal financial and other death blows to UNRWA:
Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) and 24 of his colleagues, citing the USAID inspector general’s ongoing work, urged the Trump administration in a May 19 letter “to take decisive action to fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the UN budget.” On Wednesday, Rep. Mike Lawler (R., N.Y.) and 90 other lawmakers issued a similar call.
It’s long past time for America to withdraw from the UN and kick its corrupt agents out of the country. It’s also time to honestly and directly identify terrorists and work with the rest of the free world to eliminate every one of them. UNRWA is a good place to continue that vital work.
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Mike McDaniel is a USAF veteran, classically trained musician, Japanese and European fencer, life-long athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. His home blog is Stately McDaniel Manor.