UN: patron of Palestinian terrorism. (Insider Report).(Brief Article)

On April 15th, the UN's Human Rights Commission -- an elevated name for a panel dominated by delegates from Communist and Arab dictatorships -- passed a resolution approving the use of "all available means, including armed struggle" to establish a Palestinian state. The body declined to condemn the most recent wave of terrorist bombings against Israelis. Thus the commission cannot claim to be neutrally observing the tragic and bloody Israeli/Palestinian conflict: It has endorsed using terrorism as a weapon of war against Israel, a UN member-state -- indeed, a member-state created by the UN itself.

For decades, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) has helped cultivate terrorism in the West Bank and Gaza. The agency went into operation in 1950 and provides relief services to people identified as "refugees" displaced by Israeli occupation of the disputed territories. However, as attorney Dov B. Fischer noted in the May 13th Weekly Standard, "the overwhelming majority of [the population ...