Israel Plans Additional Retaliatory Moves Against UN Over Resolution

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu added further retaliatory moves against the United Nations on Sunday night following the passing of a resolution that calls to halt settlement construction.

Israel plans to target the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which Jerusalem says is investing a great deal of manpower and resources in moves meant to undermine and harm the State of Israel.

According to the Israeli government, there is evidence to indicate teachers and other workers in the agency regularly incite the Palestinian population against Israel.

Israel will also seek to adjourn the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), which Jerusalem says is a UN body whose entire purpose to 'preserve the Palestinian narrative.' With this, Israeli officials claim, the UN is actually taking sides in the conflict.

CEIRPP often pushes anti-Israeli resolutions at the UN, accusing it of 'ethnically cleansing the Palestinians' and blaming it for the violence that has plagued Israel for over a year.

Israel will also work to cancel appointments of anti-Israeli officials at the UN who regularly make statements against Israel, at times using anti-Semitic language. So far, Israel's calls to dismiss these officials have fallen on deaf ears, but Jerusalem hopes the new US administration of Donald Trump would be able to assist on the matter.

Israel will promote a UN resolution that would set rules of conduct for UN employees, including employees of the UN's different agencies, so they would be made accountable for any statements that exceed their mandate, including ones that incite to violence or are anti-Semitic in nature. As a result of breaking the rules of conduct, the UN employees would be faced with personal sanctions, including dismissal.

Israel will work to cancel the funding for a March 2016 decision made by the UN Human Rights Council to compile a "black list" of businesses operating in Israel, which the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions Movement (BDS) could use for measures against Israel.

Finally, Israel will cut funding to different UN agencies..."