Critics Blast UN for Ignoring Longstanding Ties Between UNRWA and Hamas

That the United Nations fired a dozen employees of its Palestine relief agency for involvement in Hamas’s gruesome Oct. 7 massacre seems underwhelming to scholars and policy experts on the issue. They see it as a long time coming on a far deeper problem the U.N. consistently has refused to face, and use terms like “damage control” and “sweeping it under the carpet” to describe what’s happening. “It’s wonderful to see people finally waking up to this fact,” said Simone Ledeen, a high-ranking Defense Department official during the Trump administration. [epoch_component type=”related_posts” position=”column-right” section_title=”” width=”900″ items=””][/epoch_component]...