Defunding The UN: An Idea Whose Time Has Come

"The United States gives not millions but billions each year to the United Nations.

We are the most generous supporters of UNICEF, the U.N.'s educational and relief agency that just declared - against all logic, history, archaeology and anthropology - that Jews have no connection to Jerusalem, its Temple Mount or any other sacred sites in their homeland of four thousand years.

The money we give to UNWRA funds more than textbooks; the agency has been exposed multiple times for storing Hamas weapons in its Gaza facilities.

America provides the free use of prime Manhattan real estate and the buildings we built on it to house the U.N.; we supply one-quarter of the budget for this collage of some 200 nations who collectively supply the remainder.

The simple math is we give roughly 70 times the average assessment...

America's current government - administration and Congress - is signaling it has had enough...They see the United Nations turning a blind eye to honor killings and using children for soldiers and wives against their will at the same time they allow one party to a conflict to store weapons in U.N. facilities while denouncing the other side for protecting its borders and civilian population. They see that body catering to military dictators and totalitarian theocracies while ganging up on the only democratically elected government - the jury is still out on Iraq - in the Middle East.

The U.N. was conceived in great promise as a guarantor of peace on Earth.

Unfortunately for the believers in a secularized peace, the organization has come to symbolize not hope for peace but the rage of the biggest bully on the schoolyard..."