40 Countries Just Boycotted the U.N. | The Brief
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Why did 40 countries just boycott the U.N.? Why does the U.N. receive billions from American taxpayers — and what does the U.S. actually get in return?
In this episode of The Brief: Insights From The Inside, Shabbos Kestenbaum sits down with Ambassador Jeff Bartos, U.S. Representative for U.N. Management and Reform, following the United Nations General Assembly in New York. They discuss U.N. waste, fraud, abuse, peacekeeping reform, anti-Israel bias, the Durban conference, and why American leadership still matters on the world stage.
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Bartos explains why the Trump administration is pushing what he describes as historic reform at the United Nations, including budget cuts, staffing reductions, changes to peacekeeping reimbursements, and efforts to refocus the organization on its core mission: international peace and security.
The conversation also turns to the U.N.’s treatment of Israel. Shabbos asks Bartos why U.N. bodies have adopted more resolutions condemning Israel than all other countries combined, why the Human Rights Council maintains a permanent agenda item focused only on Israel, and why some delegations walked out during Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s UNGA speech. Bartos argues that the U.N.’s human-rights system has become unserious and that the legacy of the 2001 Durban conference helped fuel decades of anti-Israel and anti-Western ideology.
If you’re asking “How much does the U.S. pay the U.N.?”, “Is the U.N. biased against Israel?”, “Why does the U.N. condemn Israel so much?”, “What happened at the U.N. General Assembly?”, “What was the Durban conference?”, “Can the U.N. be reformed?”, or “Should America still lead on the world stage?”, this conversation with Ambassador Jeff Bartos is for you.
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