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Another Reason To Leave The United Nations

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I have reported on parts of this story before, but the hindering of the investigation is a new twist.

Om Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported the following:

Multiple U.N. relief agencies continue to stonewall a U.S. probe into their ties to Hamas, withholding key documents and other information that could reveal their employees as affiliates of the terror group, according to U.S. officials and diplomats briefed on the matter.

The ongoing standoff between federal investigators and the United Nations is causing tensions at a time when the international organization is facing intense U.S. pressure to shutter the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the largest relief organization in Gaza, which critics say is fully infiltrated and controlled by Hamas.

…The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) inspector general’s office, a statutorily independent law enforcement entity separate from the largely defunct USAID, in December 2025 sent letters to six separate U.N. agencies that purport to do humanitarian work in Gaza. The letters asked these groups to name all their employees “who worked on U.S.-government funded awards” and provide their contact information and “date and place of birth.” The office also asked the agencies to detail their “interactions with Hamas,” among other requests that went largely unanswered, the Free Beacon first reported in April.

More than three months later, none of the six organizations have furnished the full list of documents requested by the USAID inspector general, a source briefed on the USAID inspector general’s investigation confirmed to the Free Beacon.

“This administration will not allow the U.N. to evade accountability in its handling of U.S. taxpayer dollars,” a senior State Department official told the Free Beacon. “The UN’s failure to cooperate with the USAID IG investigation into Hamas diversion and interference of aid to Gaza is totally unacceptable.”

Reports from the hostages taken into Gaza during the October 7th attack on Israel have stated that their captors ate food supplied by UNRWA while denying food to the hostages. October 7th should have shown us that there cannot ever be a two-state solution in the Middle East. Before October 7th, there essentially was a two-state solution. As long as the HAMAS Charter calls for the destruction of Israel and as long as the schools in the Gaza strip teach and encourage their children to become martyrs while killing Israelis, there will be no peace.

This Should Be Obvious And Should Have Been Done Already

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Senator Tom Cotton’s office posted the following Press Release on Tuesday:

Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), joined by 24 colleagues, sent a letter to President Trump requesting that his administration work with the United Nations (UN) to fully dismantle and eliminate the budget of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Numerous UNRWA employees have ties to Hamas and other terrorist groups, yet they continue to receive millions of dollars annually from the UN.

The letter is cosigned by Senators Jim Banks (R-Indiana), John Barrasso (R-Wyoming), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tennessee), Katie Britt (R-Alabama), Ted Budd (R-North Carolina), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Curtis (R-Utah), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Deb Fischer (R-Nebraska), Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina), Bill Hagerty (R-Tennessee), John Hoeven (R-North Dakota), James Lankford (R-Oklahoma), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming), Dave McCormick (R-Pennsylvania), Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota), Rick Scott (R-Florida), Tim Scott (R-South Carolina), Tim Sheehy (R-Montana), and Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi).

In part, the Senators wrote:

“We strongly urge your administration to take decisive action to fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the UN budget. Any aid organization in Gaza or otherwise must be demonstrably free of ties to terrorism and committed to transparency, accountability, and peace. We must ensure this failed system doesn’t continue reinforcing the conditions that have fueled terrorism for generations. The time to act is now.”

Please follow the link to read the entire letter. This should have been done as soon as we realized that UNRWA employees took part in the October 7 attack on Israel.