The United Nations is useless.
The United States is pouring more than $12 billion a year of our tax money down the UN rathole and squandering a better opportunity.
The dream behind the UN’s founding, to provide an international forum for peaceful cooperation and the prevention of war, doesn’t have to be discarded.
America should lead the democratic nations to establish a new forum and junk the UN.
Those two letters have come to stand for Useless Nations — or worse, Unethical Nations.
The UN lends legitimacy to ruthless, despotic regimes and even a terrorist organization, Hamas.
The Gaza crisis shows the UN’s true colors.
For years the body refused to label Hamas what it is — a terrorist organization like ISIS and al Qaeda.
In 2018, then-UN Ambassador Nikki Haley sounded the alarm about Hamas’ plans to attack Israeli communities, even alleging evidence of maps and raid plans.
Haley urged the terrorist designation, but the UN refused to act.
Last week, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned Hamas’ terror attack.
But Guterres has also aggressively criticized Israel’s impending invasion of Gaza to rout out Hamas.
That’s no surprise.
The UN has long been biased against Israel and captive of the world’s most despotic regimes.
What is surprising is how President Joe Biden kowtows to the UN, as if it merits respect.
In 2021, the year he entered the White House, Biden told the UN General Assembly America is “back at the table,” pursuing “relentless diplomacy” and embracing globalist goals.
And he came bearing money.
The United States provides a fifth of the international organization’s budget, the largest contributor.
Biden restored funding for UN agencies President Donald Trump cut, including more than $340 million a year for the anti-Israel UN Relief and Works Agency. America is its biggest funder.
UNRWA supports Israel’s annihilation.
Haley protested that UNRWA “uses American money to feed Palestinian hatred of the Jewish state.”
UNRWA pays for printed school materials that teach Palestinian children to kill Jews.
Maps for Palestinian children don’t even show Israel as a country.
Apparently that’s not a problem for the Biden administration.
In its eagerness to be “back at the table,” Team Biden is making the United States a patsy.
Start with COVID.
The UN’s own health agency, the World Health Organization, allowed China to wage the biggest coverup in history.
Trump suspended WHO funding, demanding “independence from China.”
Biden restored the money his first day in office.
For four years, as 7 million people died worldwide, the UN watched China block independent researchers from investigating the virus’ origin, almost certainly a leak at the Wuhan lab.
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On climate change, the UN fleeces wealthy Western countries while tolerating ever-increasing pollution from China.
In March, the UN announced richer nations — meaning the United States — would have to shell out three to six times their current expenditures on global climate action. It’s a heist.
As for human rights, Biden decided in 2021 that America would rejoin the UN’s 47-member Human Rights Council.
That’s some aspiration, to be in the company of hardened abusers like Cuba and China.
Meanwhile, the UN’s powerhouse — the Security Council — is a house of thugs with Russia and China both holding veto powers.
Russia bombs Ukrainian hospitals and kidnaps children with impunity.
No wonder Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called the UN Security Council useless.
This is the same council considering a resolution calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.
Haley, now a presidential contender, has long protested the UN’s anti-Israel bias and corruption.
Hers is a voice of moral clarity.
She tweeted, “Hamas is evil & must be eradicated. We must stand with Israel — not just when it is hit, but also when it hits back.”
Ever since the Holocaust, the world has vowed, “Never again.”
The UN is not up to keeping that promise.
The world needs a new international organization dominated by democratic leaders instead of thugs and despots.
Biden is incapable, but our next president should get it done.
Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York.
Twitter: @Betsy_McCaughey
This story originally appeared on NYPost
