Look at how skewed the UN is. Some 216 million people are starving worldwide, and the UN Security Council talks almost exclusively about the Gaza Strip. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is active in 120 countries, including 17 officially classified as “emergency countries,” among them the “Palestinian Territories.” According to UN data, 5.5 million people live there, with around 640,000 facing acute hunger. But in the rest of the world, 216 million people in other crisis countries are on the brink.
For the Gaza Strip and the so-called “West Bank,” meaning Judea and Samaria, the WFP has allocated $334 million this year. The same issue preoccupies the UN Security Council; since November 2023, over 60 sessions have been held on the humanitarian emergency in the Gaza Strip—more than three times as many as for Sudan (19 sessions), where the situation affects 38 times more people (24.6 million affected). Israel’s UN Ambassador Danny Danon sums it up: “Sometimes there is more than one debate per week for the Palestinians.” Totally disproportionate attention. The UN focuses almost exclusively on the Gaza Strip. No other country or...
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