The Jerusalem Post May 23, 2025
U.N. cannot dismiss grief and struggle of Israeli people.

The humanitarian crisis in Gaza can’t and shouldn’t be ignored. But neither should the cries of grieving parents of hostages.

Israel far and away had the highest level of enmity toward the organization, with no other country coming within 15 percent of Israel’s disapproval rating of the global body.

The reason for that large gap was showcased this week, when Tom Fletcher, the U.N.’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, went on the BBC. He said on Tuesday
1. “There are five trucks just sitting on the other side of the border right now,”
2. “They have not reached the communities they need to reach. This is baby food, baby nutrition.
3. There are 14,000 babies that will die in the next 48 hours unless we can reach them.”

Needless to say, 14,000 Gazan babies did not die in two days.

Israel has historically not felt adequately represented by the U.N.

Look no further than the infamous UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 which equated Zionism with racism, a bastardization of the concept from people who seemed not to understand its very roots and importance to an often marginalized and massacred people.

To be an effective international broker, the U.N. cannot dismiss the true grief and struggle of the Israeli people, as it has. The horrors of this war do not extend only to one side. The U.N. has no right to gaslight us about our history and our hostages.

The heart of Israel is and will remain with the hostages. We know what an attack is.