Israel has cut funding to UN bodies that operate against the Jewish state.
Israel announced on Friday that it will suspend about $ 6 million in funding to the United Nations (UN) in an “act of protest” against the recent UN Security Council vote that condemned Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria.
The Israeli government explained that the decrease in the country’s $ 40 million in total funding for the UN symbolically represents a cut to the portion of the UN budget that is allocated to anti-Israel bodies, including the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People; the Division for Palestinian Rights; the Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices, and the Special Information Program on the Question of Palestine of the UN Department of Public Information.
“It is unreasonable for Israel to fund bodies that operate against the United Nations,” Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said in a statement. “We seek to stop the practice where the UN is used solely as a forum for unending attacks against Israel. ”
Israel Cuts $6M in Funding to UN in Protest of Anti-Israel Vote
Israel’s announcement comes a day after the US House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a resolution condemning the Security Council’s anti-Israel vote.
The anti-Israel resolution stated that Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria, “since 1967, including East Jerusalem,” have “no legal validity.” It demands a halt to “all Israeli settlement activities,” saying this “is essential for salvaging The two-state solution. ”
以色列向联合国反对犹太国家的机构削减了资金。
以色列星期五宣布，将对联合国最近的联合国安理会表决谴责以色列在犹太和撒马利亚的存在的一次“抗议行动”中止约600万美元的资金。
以色列政府解释说，该国在联合国资金总额中减少4 000万美元象征性地代表了联合国预算中划拨给反以色列机构的部分，包括行使不可剥夺权利委员会巴勒斯坦人民;巴勒斯坦人民权利司;调查以色列行为特别委员会的工作以及联合国新闻部巴勒斯坦问题特别新闻方案。
以色列驻联合国大使丹尼诺在一份声明中说，“以色列向联合国提供资金的机构是不合理的。 “我们试图阻止这样的做法，联合国只是作为一个论坛不断攻击以色列。
以色列的宣布是在美国众议院压倒性地通过一项谴责安全理事会反对以色列投票的决议之后的一天。
反以色列决议指出，“自1967年以来，包括东耶路撒冷在内的犹太和撒马利亚的以色列社区”没有法律效力“。它要求停止“所有以色列定居点活动”，称这是“拯救两国解决方案必不可少的”。