On Wednesday, Russia <a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/24/russia-nuclear-weapons-space-un-resolution">vetoed</a> a UN Security Council resolution proposed by the United States and Japan reaffirming the obligation of countries that signed the Outer Space Treaty not to place nuclear weapons in orbit around the Earth. The resolution would ban member states from developing nuclear weapons specifically designed to be placed in orbit.
The Outer Space Treaty was signed in 1967. The treaty added new provisions to the Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, adopted by the General Assembly in 1963. Article IV of the Outer Space Treaty <a href="https://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/treaty_Princi_Gov_Acti_States_OST.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">states</a>:
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States Parties to the Treaty undertake not to place in orbit around the earth any objects carrying nuclear weapons or any other kinds of weapons of mass destruction, install such weapons on celestial bodies, or station such weapons in outer space in any other manner. The moon and other celestial bodies shall be used by all States Parties to the Treaty exclusively for peaceful purposes. The establishment of military bases, installations and fortifications, the testing of any type of weapons and the conduct of military maneuvers on celestial bodies shall be forbidden. 
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“We have heard President Putin say publicly that Russia has no intention of deploying nuclear weapons in space. If that were the case, Russia would not have vetoed this resolution,” National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2024/04/24/statement-from-national-security-advisor-jake-sullivan-on-russias-veto-of-the-un-security-council-resolution-on-the-outer-space-treaty/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>.
“Russia is developing a space-based military capability that members of Congress and U.S. officials worry could pose a significant threat to the United States and its allies, possibly by damaging critical intelligence or communications satellites with a nuclear weapon, according to officials familiar with the matter,” The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/02/14/national-security-threat-mike-turner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> in mid-February.
At that time, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2024/02/15/press-briefing-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-and-white-house-national-security-communications-advisor-john-kirby-3/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commented</a>, “This is not an active capability that’s been deployed. And though Russia’s pursuit of this particular capability is troubling, there is no immediate threat to anyone’s safety. We are not talking about a weapon that can be used to attack human beings or cause physical destruction here on Earth. That said, we’ve been closely monitoring this Russian activity and we will continue to take it very seriously.”
“Russia conducted a direct-ascent hit-to-kill anti-satellite (ASAT) test on November 15, 2021, striking a Russian satellite and rendering it into more than 1,500 pieces of orbital debris. Reacting to the test, U.S. Space Command commander Army Gen. James Dickinson claimed that Russia is ‘deploying capabilities to actively deny access to and use of space by the United States and its allies,’” the Arms Control  Association <a href="https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2022-03/features/russias-anti-satellite-weapons-asymmetric-response-us-aerospace-superiority#:~:text=Russia%20conducted%20a%20direct%2Dascent,1%2C500%20pieces%20of%20orbital%20debris." target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> in March 2022.

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An international organization working in partnership with the United Nations is hiring a “flight management” position to facilitate travel by migrants into the interior of the United States, according to a job posting.
The International Organization for Migration (IOM), an intergovernmental organization classified as a “related organization” in partnership with the UN, is hoping to hire people to function as the “operations focal point” for “flight management” to assist with the flying of foreign nationals throughout the country, the <a href="https://www.glassdoor.com/job-listing/operations-focal-point-flight-management-international-organization-for-migration-JV_IC1155583_KO0,40_KE41,81.htm?jl=1008940556470">job description</a> states.
The role appears to be to facilitate the entire process of migrating into the United States. Among the responsibilities associated with the role are to “brief arrivals on procedures,” “escort them to the immigration area,” and “assist arrivals through procedures and ensure Customs and Border Protection (CBP) stamps all relevant documents.”
Flight management personnel must also “communicate with US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and resolve issues as they arise in coordination with the Senior Operations Assistant” while also ensuring migrants are “escorted to their connecting flights, ground transportation or hotel.” IOM is hiring flight management staff in multiple locations, including <a href="https://fa-evlj-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/preview/10585/?locationId=300000000480126">Houston</a>, Texas and <a href="https://fa-evlj-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateExperience/en/sites/CX_1001/requisitions/preview/10482/?locationId=300000000480126">Atlanta</a>, Georgia for year-long terms at $5,500 per month.
The organization <a href="https://www.iom.int/mission">calls itself</a> “the leading intergovernmental organization in the field of migration and is committed to the principle that humane and orderly migration benefits migrants and society” before adding that it is “part of the United Nations system, as a related organization.” IOM specifically says that part of its mission is to help in “<a href="https://www.iom.int/who-we-are">facilitating migration</a>.”
IOM receives the bulk of its funding from the U.S. government, which gave the organization <a href="https://www.iom.int/donor-relations">$942 million in 2022</a>. More recently the State Department <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-united-states-announces-humanitarian-assistance-for-the-western-hemisphere-regional-migration-program/">granted the organization</a> another $16 million in taxpayer funds. The organization garnered another $241 million from United Nations Organizations. IOM recently requested a whopping $7.9 billion from member states to fund its activities, including migrant resettlement across the globe.
The IOM did not respond to a request for comment.
The Center for Immigration Studies <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Government-Admission-Biden-Parole-Flights-Create-Security-Vulnerabilities-US-Airports">discovered</a> through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit that 320,000 “inadmissible aliens” flew into the U.S. in 2023, taking advantage of U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s One mobile app. While it is unknown where exactly the migrants were sent, Bensman’s report found that they arrived at 43 different airports across the United States.
Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) recently proposed an amendment that would prevented federal funds from being used by the Biden administration to fly illegal immigrants into the interior of the United States. The measure was shot down, with every single Democrat in the U.S. Senate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/all-senate-dems-vote-against-stopping-taxpayer-money-for-illegal-immigrant-flights-into-u-s">voting against</a> it.
The United States also currently faces an unprecedented immigration crisis on the southern border, with officials recording about 9 million <a href="https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters">nationwide encounters</a> and 1.7 million <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-admin-may-have-lost-track-millions-of-migrants-crossing-southern-border-congressional-report">estimated gotaways</a> since President Joe Biden took office, as well as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/laken-riley">high-profile</a> violent crimes committed by illegal immigrants.

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United Nations-Tied Organization Hiring Coordinator To Facilitate Migrant Flights Into United States

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On Wednesday at the United Nations, UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer blasted the anti-Israel UN Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, for her vicious attack on Israel in which she called Israel’s attack on Hamas in Gaza a “genocide” and compared Israel to Nazi Germany.
Albanese intoned to the UN, “Following nearly six months of unrelenting Israeli assault on occupied Gaza, it is my solemn duty to report on the worst of what humanity is capable of and to present my finding: ‘The Anatomy Of A Genocide.’ The colonial amnesia of the West has condoned Israel’s colonial settler project from the violent history of the very birth of the State of Israel.”
Albanese then tried to turn the Palestinian slogan that calls for the eradication of Israel into a demand for equal rights, saying, “People around the world are taking to the streets, gathering, protesting, and demanding equal rights of all &#8216;from the river to the sea.&#8217;”
She then likened Israel’s defense of the state and its attack on the terrorist group Hamas that perpetrated the horrific October 7 massacre of more than 1200 people on Israeli soil to the Holocaust in which the Nazis murdered six million Jews in an attempt to wipe the Jewish people from history.
“The Israeli project is not only apartheid but aims at a final solution,” she claimed.
Neuer then fired back:
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Ms. Albanese, your report accuses Israel of genocide. Now, at page 2, you say your report does not examine the Hamas crimes of October 7, because they are “Beyond the geographic scope of my mandate.” Now, you went on a recent official trip to Australia, all expenses paid by the U.N. Could you explain how Australia is within the geography of your mandate but not the mass murder, rape, torture committed by Hamas terrorists on October 7, invading Israel from Gaza, kidnapping hundreds of hostages including babies and Holocaust survivors?  If you ignore the Hamas massacre that started the war, the 14,000 rockets fired against Israeli towns, 130 hostages now being tortured in Gaza, how can you possibly understand the war?
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He continued:
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Now, although you say it’s not in your mandate, you have commented. On February 10, you mocked the statement of President Macron that October 7 constituted the greatest anti-Semitic massacre of our century. You said the victims were “not killed because of their Judaism,” but rather “in reaction to Israel’s oppression.”
In response, for the first time in history, both France and Germany condemned a U.N. rapporteur for anti-Semitism. France replied to you that “The October 7 massacre is the biggest anti-Semitic massacre of the 21st Century,” and “to deny it is wrong.” France said it was, “scandalous” and a “disgrace” for you to “appear to justify it” by “dragging in the name of the United Nations.” Germany, Madame Rapporteur, said it was “appalling” for you to “justify the horrific terror attacks” and to “deny their anti-Semitic nature.” Germany said, Madame Rapporteur, your remarks were as “disgrace.”
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“We agree,” he concluded.
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Never before in the history of the United Nations did France or Gemany condemn a rapporteur for antisemitism. Francesca Albanese is now the first. She says “the Jewish lobby” controls America, Israel commits genocide, and cries out “From the River to the Sea.” I took the floor: <a href="https://t.co/P4H53c4EFa">pic.twitter.com/P4H53c4EFa</a>
&mdash; Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/1773060993746104727?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2024</a></blockquote>
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UN Watch’s Hillel Neuer Blasts Anti-Israel UN Rapporteur After She Likens Israel To Nazi Germany

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On Monday, in the wake of the Biden administration refusing to vote against a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate Gaza Strip ceasefire for the month of Ramadan, instead only <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/25/middleeast/un-security-council-gaza-israel-ceasefire-intl/index.html">abstaining</a> on the vote, the Israeli government canceled sending its delegation to Washington D.C.
The Biden administration had previously vetoed similar resolutions. By abstaining, the Biden administration permitted the resolution to be passed, a move that has prompted strong backlash from critics and heightened tension between the two governments. Israeli Prime Minister had warned the Biden administration Israel would cancel its delegation unless it vetoed the United Nations Security Council resolution.
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Breaking — Israel isn&#39;t sending Dermer and HaNegbi to Washington, a move that dramatically increased the tensions between the two governments. Netanyahu had told the US he would do so if it didn&#39;t veto the United Nations Security Council resolution on Gaza.
&mdash; Tovah Lazaroff (@tovahlazaroff) <a href="https://twitter.com/tovahlazaroff/status/1772280014949515302?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“At the last minute on Monday morning, the US asked for an amendment adding a condemnation of Hamas for its attack on Israel on 7 October, leading to urgent huddles of diplomats on the chamber floor, but dropped that demand when it became clear the amendment would be resisted,” The Guardian <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/25/un-gaza-ceasefire-vote">reported</a>.
“The Security Council just approved a long-awaited resolution on Gaza, demanding an immediate ceasefire, and the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages. This resolution must be implemented. Failure would be unforgivable,” UN Secretary-General António Guterres Guterres <a href="https://twitter.com/antonioguterres/status/1772271978293948899">tweeted</a>.
Israel is on the verge of targeting Rafah, the last stronghold of Hamas in Gaza. Although the resolution calls for cessation of hostilities during Ramadan, it is worth noting that the Yom Kippur War against Israel by Syria and Egypt in October 1973 was launched during Ramadan.
The Biden administration has been frantically trying to impede Israel’s efforts to enter Rafah. President Biden has reportedly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2024/02/11/biden-netanyahu-rafah-invasion-00140865">warned</a> Netanyahu not to proceed with Israel’s attack on Rafah. In early February, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/threat-of-israeli-offensive-hangs-over-packed-gaza-border-city-as-u-s-warns-of-disaster-53c801b4">threatened</a>, “Military operations right now would be a disaster for those people, and it’s not something that we would support.”
The Wall Street Journal editorial board <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/rafah-israel-hamas-gaza-biden-administration-49a1c188">noted</a> in mid-February, “Taking Rafah Is Essential to Defeat Hamas. It’s the terror group’s last stronghold. Why is Biden opposed to Israel capturing the city? Ever notice how it is always deemed a humanitarian imperative to let Hamas survive? The diplomatic pressure on Israel to stay out of Rafah, Hamas’s final stronghold, has become enormous.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu asserted in mid-February, “Those who say that under no circumstances should we enter Rafah are basically saying lose the war, keep Hamas there.”
At the end of February, fiercely pro-Israel Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) led a group of GOP senators who blasted President Biden in a <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1763584018807758991">letter</a> for “undermining Israeli operations against Hamas in Gaza.”
Biden issued a February 1 <a href="https://ofac.treasury.gov/media/932576/download?inline">executive order</a> in which he referred to Judea and Samaria as the “West Bank,” claimed there were “high levels of extremist settler violence, forced displacement of people and villages, and property destruction,” all while ignoring the violence perpetrated against Israelis in the area.
“These actions undermine the foreign policy objectives of the United States, including the viability of a two-state solution and ensuring Israelis and Palestinians can attain equal measures of security, prosperity, and freedom. They also undermine the security of Israel,” Biden declared in the order, adding, “These actions constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. I hereby declare a national emergency to deal with that threat.”
On February 8, Biden issued a <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2024/02/08/national-security-memorandum-on-safeguards-and-accountability-with-respect-to-transferred-defense-articles-and-defense-services/">National Security Memorandum</a> which stated that the United States had to “obtain credible and reliable written assurances from a representative of the recipient country as the Secretary of State deems appropriate that the recipient country will use any such defense articles in accordance with international humanitarian law and, as applicable, other international law,” thus leaving Israel vulnerable to “international law.”
“Both documents undercut our most valuable alliance in the Middle East,” <a href="https://twitter.com/SenTomCotton/status/1763584018807758991/photo/1">wrote</a> Cotton and the other senators, including Ted Cruz of Texas, Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and Ted Budd of North Carolina. “We call on you to rescind both documents and to sanction terrorists and their supporters instead of their victims. Your February 1 EO grants the State Department broad authority to arbitrarily punish Israelis in Judea and Samaria, with no defined standards for determining when sanctions are warranted. Under the guise of ‘peace, security, or stability of the West Bank,’ it appears the State Department can punish arbitrarily any Israeli it wants.”

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U.S. Refuses To Vote Against UN Resolution Calling For Immediate Gaza Ceasefire. Israel Cancels Its Delegation’s Visit To Washington.

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The United Nations has <a href="https://reduxx.info/uk-trans-identified-male-selected-as-un-women-delegate-has-history-of-stealing-sisters-underwear/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">selected a man</a> who identifies as a woman — and has also spoken about stealing his sister’s underwear —to work as a U.N. Women U.K. delegate with the U.N.’s Commission on the Status of Women.
Martin “Katie” Neeves <a href="https://twitter.com/cool2btrans/status/1763272298356760714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1763272298356760714%7Ctwgr%5Eaa6eb89aac19f8ad97e6349f561f57e512d8911e%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Freduxx.info%2Fuk-trans-identified-male-selected-as-un-women-delegate-has-history-of-stealing-sisters-underwear%2F">tweeted</a>, “I’m happy to announce that I’ve been accepted as a UN Women UK delegate to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, which is the principal global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.”
In 2022, footage <a href="https://reduxx.info/trans-educator-describes-arousal-at-wearing-womens-clothes-denies-biological-sex/">emerged</a> of Neeves from a diversity training webinar where he stated, “My earliest memories were of my mum catching me trying on a pair of my sister’s knickers. I remember when I did it, it felt so right. But then my mum came in, and she caught me and told me off &#8230; In my childhood, I used to secretly dress in my sister’s clothes whenever I had the opportunity. And whenever I did it, it felt so right. But then those feelings of being right were very quickly overtaken by feelings of guilt, shame, and self-loathing. Because what I was doing was wrong, it was dirty, it was naughty, and not what respectable people did.”
In September, the East and West Midlands Women’s Awards <a href="https://reduxx.info/uk-male-trans-ambassador-presented-with-outstanding-female-prize-at-womens-awards-gala/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bestowed</a> its Outstanding Female LGBTQIA+ Champion award on Neeves. The organization’s website states the purpose of the Women’s Awards is “to raise awareness, recognize and honor the hard work and valuable contribution women of all cultures, communities, races, and beliefs, in all sectors make.”
In January, after a biological male was chosen by U.N. Women U.K. as their first &#8220;Champion,&#8221; 17 British organizations fired off a <a href="https://fairplayforwomen.com/a-letter-to-un-women-this-male-does-not-represent-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> slamming the U.N. for ignoring actual women in their selection.
The letter <a href="https://fairplayforwomen.com/a-letter-to-un-women-this-male-does-not-represent-us/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that Munroe Bergdorf, appointed U.N. Women’s U.K. champion in November, had &#8220;resigned as an adviser on LGBT+ to the UK Labour Party after previous homophobic and racist posts on social media were revealed. These included saying that &#8216;all white people&#8217; are &#8216;violent racists and &#8216;f*** you, stupid dirty and smelly n****&#8217;. There are numerous examples of homophobic messaging, using expressions like &#8216;f*****&#8217; and &#8216;old poof,&#8217; &#8216;hairy barren lesbian&#8217; and &#8216;barren…hairy d****.&#8217;”
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“In a separate incident, Bergdorf was dropped as an ambassador to a children’s charity, Childline, because of inappropriate messages which were counter to safeguarding norms,” the letter added.
“This person has objected to women making references to our female bodies,” the letter stated. “Yet many issues affecting women, such as FGM, child marriage and forced marriage, reproductive rights, male violence against women and girls, rape as a war crime, pregnancy and maternity healthcare, and more, are inextricably linked with our female biology. How can this person be a champion of women if these issues are deemed unmentionable?”
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-n-womens-group-chooses-male-for-its-u-k-champion-17-womens-organizations-blast-the-decision">U.N. Women&#8217;s Group Chooses Male For Its &#8216;U.K. Champion.&#8217; 17 Women&#8217;s Organizations Blast The Decision.</a>

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A group of middle schoolers in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/new-york" target="_blank" rel="noopener">New York</a> were taught about “equity” versus “equality” using resources from the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/united-nations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">United Nations</a>, according to lesson plans obtained by a parental rights group. 
Fifth graders from Herricks Middle School in Long Island were instructed on the differences between equity and equality while on a field trip to Herricks High School in December. The lesson was heavily based on materials from the U.N., according to a <a href="https://defendinged.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Equity-Lesson-Resources.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">document</a> obtained by Parents Defending Education and shared with The Daily Wire
“The theme of Educational Equity is taken from the [U.N. Sustainable Development Goal 4] in providing educational equity across the developing world,” a document from the school with links to U.N. resources said. “Using the goals of the UN to evaluate the steps thus far to achieve their goals the following research was explored for students to create their own projects to showcase what is being done across the developing world to meet the UN goals and how the UN is supporting the achievement of those goals.”
Parents Defending Education obtained the document after it filed a public records request for documents on the lesson after the <a href="https://defendinged.org/incidents/herricks-public-schools-provides-lesson-from-united-nations-to-fifth-grade-students-promoting-equity-over-equality/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school posted</a> on its Facebook page that some fifth-grade students had learned about the difference between equity and equality while on a trip to the high school. 
While some of the materials address the plight of education in places like Africa, the concept of equity in education has been utilized by some teachers to push <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/beyond-allyship-to-anti-oppression-california-school-district-spends-170k-on-critical-race-theory-teacher-training" target="_blank" rel="noopener">politically charged activism</a> in the classroom. As highlighted by Parents Defending Education, one of the aims of the U.N.’s <a href="https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal4#targets_and_indicators" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sustainable development goal four</a> is to promote “global citizenship education” around the world, and many of the materials focus on climate change. 
“Equity and equality are not the same thing. Equality means providing the same resources to everyone. Equity signifies giving more to those most in need. Countries with greater inequity in education results are also those in which governments distribute resources according to the political pressure they experience in providing education,” one of the U.N. <a href="https://www.un.org/en/un-chronicle/recognizing-and-overcoming-inequity-education" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resources</a> referenced in the lesson plan says. 
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Caroline Moore, the vice president of Parents Defending Education, said that using U.N. concepts put traditional education in danger of being politicized. 
“UN standards are contrary to American exceptionalism and merit-based principles,” Moore told The Daily Wire. “No one should be looking to the UN for anything, let alone so-called ‘equity’ standards. Herricks Public Schools should be embarrassed they are teaching students that they are either ‘oppressed’ or ‘oppressors’ and have preconceived outcomes because of their race. All students have the ability to achieve their academic goals, especially when districts prioritize academics over activism.”
The Daily Wire reached out to Herricks Public Schools for comment.

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New York School Turns To United Nations To Teach 5th Graders About ‘Equity’

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Martin Griffiths, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, insisted that Hamas is not a terrorist group, but rather a “political movement.”
“In terms of Israel’s plans to eliminate Hamas and have them never be part of any future negotiation when it comes to Gaza, do you think that’s realistic?” a Sky News anchor asked him.
“I think it’s very difficult, and as you say, I’ve worked with many, many, many different terrorist and insurgent groups. Hamas is not a terrorist group for us, of course, as you know. It’s a political movement,” Griffiths answered, <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-787084">adding</a>, “But, I think it is very, very difficult to dislodge these groups without a negotiated solution; which includes their aspirations. I cannot think of an example offhand of a place where a victory through warfare has succeeded against a well-entrenched group, terrorist or otherwise.”
“According to @UNReliefChief Hamas is not a terrorist organization. They are a political organization, who from time to time murders, rapes and kidnaps civilians to let off steam. What an abomination the [UN]  has become,” the state of Israel’s X feed declared.
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According to <a href="https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNReliefChief</a> Hamas is not a terrorist organization.
They are a political organization, who from time to time murders, rapes and kidnaps civilians to let off steam. 
What an abomination the <a href="https://twitter.com/UN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UN</a> has become. <a href="https://t.co/E6cEFjgMmd">pic.twitter.com/E6cEFjgMmd</a>
&mdash; Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1758050724649247047?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Martin Griffiths, @UNReliefChief, denies Hamas is a terrorist organization. No wonder he is abusing his power to save Hamas&#8217; skin after the deadliest terror attack since 9/11 instead of demanding its surrender,” Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy snapped.
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Martin Griffiths, <a href="https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNReliefChief</a>, denies Hamas is a terrorist organization. No wonder he is abusing his power to save Hamas&#39; skin after the deadliest terror attack since 9/11 instead of demanding its surrender. <a href="https://t.co/0FIA3fmtDU">pic.twitter.com/0FIA3fmtDU</a>
&mdash; Eylon Levy (@EylonALevy) <a href="https://twitter.com/EylonALevy/status/1758034722481938694?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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In an attempt to defend himself later, Griffiths tweeted, “Just to clarify: Hamas is not on the list of groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United Nations Security Council. This doesn&#8217;t make their acts of terror on 7 October any less horrific and reprehensible, as I&#8217;ve been saying all along.”
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Just to clarify: Hamas is not on the list of groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United Nations Security Council.
This doesn&#39;t make their acts of terror on 7 October any less horrific and reprehensible, as I&#39;ve been saying all along.
&mdash; Martin Griffiths (@UNReliefChief) <a href="https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief/status/1758177347969106311?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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“Just to clarify: @UNReliefChief  you’re a Hamas apologist and your statements are an insult to every single victim of October 7th. Pathetic,” the State of Israel’s X feed responded.
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Just to clarify: <a href="https://twitter.com/UNReliefChief?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@UNReliefChief</a> you’re a Hamas apologist and your statements are an insult to every single victim of October 7th. 
Pathetic. <a href="https://t.co/blfZgLHyzl">https://t.co/blfZgLHyzl</a>
&mdash; Israel ישראל 🇮🇱 (@Israel) <a href="https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1758184040169971911?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Griffiths did not explain why he called Hamas a “political movement.”
The German Foreign Office X feed took issue with Griffiths, noting, “To make it crystal clear: The EU has listed Hamas as a terrorist organization and so have many others.”
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To make it crystal clear: The EU has listed Hamas as a terrorist organization and so have many others.
&mdash; GermanForeignOffice (@GermanyDiplo) <a href="https://twitter.com/GermanyDiplo/status/1758183400265908286?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 15, 2024</a></blockquote>
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UN Official: Hamas Not a Terrorist Organization, It’s A ‘Political Movement’

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In an attempt to buy Muslim support in the swing state of Michigan, President Biden reportedly told Israeli Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday that Israel should not go ahead with a military operation in the Gaza border town of Rafah without a credible plan to protect civilians.
What exactly does that mean? Israel, which has complete air superiority, has been attempting to protect civilians this entire time of the war against Hamas because they have no wish to kill two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
I know Israeli soldiers who are literally going house to house and door to door in the most densely populated areas in some of the most densely populated places on planet Earth so as to not kill civilians. In fact, I met with an Israeli soldier last Friday whose buddy was gunned down right in front of him as he was going into an apartment complex in Gaza last week. The reason the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is even on the ground there is to preserve civilian life while they try to save Israeli hostages held by Hamas.
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Meanwhile, Biden apparently told Israel not to go into Rafah, which is the only major stronghold Hamas has left; they have four battalions in Rafah that Israel needs to finish off.
This would be like Biden saying to the American military during World War II, “Guys, once you get around Berlin, stop.”
Every Hamas official is now in Rafah. Everyone knows this and the additional fact that the hostages are in Rafah.
Miraculously, Israel <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-daring-operation-idf-rescues-two-hostages-held-by-hamas-in-rafah" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rescued</a> two hostages alive in Gaza on Sunday night. It is an amazing, miraculous story.
There are roughly 100 hostages currently held by Hamas. We don&#8217;t know how many are dead. Nobody knows how many are dead. But Israel actually rescued two hostages alive in Rafah while the Biden administration was telling them not to go in.
I have spoken to people who are serving in Gaza right now and attest that the embedding is insane. The line between civilians and the military in Gaza is incredibly thin. Huge percentages of civilian households in Gaza contain weaponry. Huge percentages are hiding terror tunnels. Over the weekend, the <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/hamas-military-compound-found-beneath-u-n-agency-headquarters-in-gaza-7e29c758" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wall Street Journal</a> reported, saying, “Hidden deep below the headquarters of the United Nations’ aid agency for Palestinians here is a Hamas complex with rows of computer servers that Israel’s armed forces say served as an important communications center and intelligence hub” for Hamas.
The compound is directly below the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) buildings in Gaza City, and they&#8217;re running on electricity drawn from the U.N. So whenever people talk about the vaunted U.N., remember, the UNRWA is Hamas. They&#8217;re indistinguishable in the Gaza Strip.
But Biden is trying to tell the Israelis not to go in and rescue their own people.
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Asked on Sunday how Israel would know when Hamas was eliminated, Netanyahu <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/week-transcript-2-11-24-pm-netanyahu-sen/story?id=107128294" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>:
<blockquote>When you eliminate their organized fighting formations, and as I&#8217;ve said, we&#8217;ve taken 18 out of their 24 terrorist battalions out of commission. You&#8217;re mopping up the remaining individual terrorists, and when they release the hostages, of course, and ensure that Hamas, that Gaza is no longer a threat to Israel.
You don&#8217;t have to kill every last terrorist. You don’t have to kill every last ISIS terrorist, but you make sure that ISIS was finished as a military force. You have to dismantle. Hamas is a military force — a military force that controls territory. We&#8217;re well within reach, and we shouldn&#8217;t stop.</blockquote>
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Israel Rescues Two Hostages From Gaza, Whilst Two IDF Soldiers Killed In Overnight Fighting

Biden Tells Israel To Stop Attack In Hamas Stronghold. Israel Goes Ahead, Miraculously Rescues Two Hostages.

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Hamas terrorists hid a top-secret intelligence center underneath the U.N.&#8217;s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) in Gaza that was uncovered by the Israel Defense Forces, the Israeli military said on Saturday.
The Hamas intelligence center included an electrical room, industrial battery power banks, and a living space for the terrorists, The Times of Israel <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/directly-beneath-unrwas-gaza-headquarters-idf-uncovers-top-secret-hamas-data-center/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. The IDF&#8217;s discovery comes after <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/u-n-aid-group-pleads-for-more-money-after-workers-linked-to-hamas-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revelations</a> that at least a dozen of the agency&#8217;s workers were connected to Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel, according to an Israeli intelligence dossier.
The controversial U.N. aid group — which <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/what-we-do" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says</a> it is &#8220;committed to advancing the human development of Palestine refugees&#8221; — <a href="https://twitter.com/unlazzarini/status/1756377920254218556?s=46&amp;t=o-U3qwC25WnWaylJ0oeG7Q" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> having any knowledge that Hamas was housing terrorists and a data center right underneath its feet, according to UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
&#8220;UNRWA is made aware of reports through the media regarding a tunnel under the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza,&#8221; Lazzarini said. &#8220;UNRWA staff left its headquarters in Gaza City on 12 October following the Israeli evacuation orders and as bombardment intensified in the area. We have not used that compound since we left it nor are we aware of any activity that may have taken place there.&#8221;
The UNRWA commissioner-general added that the agency cannot confirm or comment on the reports that the &#8220;Israeli Army has deployed troops within the UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza City.&#8221;
The Times of Israel reported that interrogations of captured terrorists helped Israeli forces pinpoint Hamas&#8217; subterranean intelligence center, which was finally located under the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City’s upscale Rimal neighborhood.
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“The IDF was here previously, the first time was to destroy the enemy, but when we were here the last time we collected a lot of intelligence documents and findings, a lot of prisoners, and thanks to this we reached here. Now we carried out a targeted operation to take this capability away,” said Col. Benny Aharon, the commander of the 401st Armored Brigade, while giving a media tour of the newly discovered tunnel.
“We had a basis of information, but not enough to be able to dig down 20 meters and find it, we needed a bit more. There’s information we get from prisoners we capture, from computers we find, from documents, maps,” he said.
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After it was reported that 12 UNRWA employees were tied to Hamas&#8217; brutal 10/7 attack on Israel, at least nine countries and the European Union suspended or cut back funding for the agency, which prompted U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to plead with countries to continue supporting the UNRWA.
“[Two] million civilians in Gaza depend on critical aid from UNRWA for daily survival but UNRWA’s current funding will not allow it to meet all requirements to support them in February,” Guterres said in a <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-01-28/statement-the-secretary-general-unrwa#:~:text=While%20I%20understand%20their%20concerns,staff%20members%20must%20have%20consequences." target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by these accusations – I strongly appeal to the governments that have suspended their contributions to, at least, guarantee the continuity of UNRWA’s operations.”
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Top-Secret Hamas Intelligence Center Discovered Beneath U.N. Aid Group’s Gaza Headquarters, Israeli Military Says

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The United Nations aid agency in the Gaza Strip says it has only weeks of funding remaining after multiple sponsor nations suspended their support.
At least nine countries and the European Union have suspended or cut back funding for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) following revelations that at least a dozen of its workers were connected to Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. About 10% of its 12,000 employees in Gaza were found to have links to terror groups across the Middle East, according to an Israeli intelligence dossier reported by <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/at-least-12-u-n-agency-employees-involved-in-oct-7-attacks-intelligence-reports-say-a7de8f36" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
Israeli officials say the problems inside the UNRWA are more extensive than a few bad actors. Roughly half of all UNRWA workers in Gaza have close relatives with ties to terror groups, especially Hamas. The WSJ cited the dossier in its report which said six UNRWA workers &#8220;were part of the wave of Palestinian militants who killed 1,200 people in the deadliest assault on Jews since the Holocaust.&#8221;
“The institution as a whole is a haven for Hamas’ radical ideology,” a senior Israeli government official told WSJ.
Since the revelations, the U.N. aid agency has bled funding. Many of its top donors, including the United States which gave more than $340 million to the UNRWA last year, have suspended funding over concerns that aid money is being redirected to Hamas. U.N. officials are pleading for a return of funding, saying that its coffers will run dry by the end of February.
“[Two] million civilians in Gaza depend on critical aid from UNRWA for daily survival but UNRWA’s current funding will not allow it to meet all requirements to support them in February,” U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/sg/statement/2024-01-28/statement-the-secretary-general-unrwa#:~:text=While%20I%20understand%20their%20concerns,staff%20members%20must%20have%20consequences." target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a>. “While I understand their concerns – I was myself horrified by these accusations – I strongly appeal to the governments that have suspended their contributions to, at least, guarantee the continuity of UNRWA’s operations.”
Guterres said that action is being taken against the 12 workers, some of whom participated directly in the terror attack, with connections to October 7.
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Along with the United States, other countries that have suspended or reduced funding to the UNRWA include Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom, according to <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-shares-dossier-spelling-allegations-12-un-employees-allegedly-involved-hamas-attack" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
The European Commission of the European Union has also announced a pause on funding the UNRWA, calling for a quick investigation. The commission said it would make a decision to restore funding no sooner than the end of February.
“The European Commission will determine upcoming funding decisions for UNRWA in light of the very serious allegations,” the commission said in a statement, according to <a href="https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-784169" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Jerusalem Post</a>. “The Commission will review the matter in light of the outcome of the investigation announced by the UN and the actions it will take.”

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U.N. Aid Group Pleads For More Money After Workers Linked To Hamas Terrorists

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) <a href="https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/official-statements/serious-allegations-against-unrwa-staff-gaza-strip">announced</a> Friday that it would launch an investigation into information provided by Israeli authorities regarding the alleged involvement of several of the agency&#8217;s employees in Hamas&#8217; terrorist attack on Israel on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of over 1,200 Israelis.
&#8220;The Israeli Authorities have provided UNRWA with information about the alleged involvement of several UNRWA employees in the horrific attacks on Israel on 7 October,&#8221; Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA&#8217;s commissioner-general said in a statement. &#8220;To protect the Agency’s ability to deliver humanitarian assistance, I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these staff members and launch an investigation in order to establish the truth without delay.  Any UNRWA employee who was involved in acts of terror will be held accountable, including through criminal prosecution.&#8221;
The State Department also issued a statement Friday announcing that it would pause additional funding for the agency due to the allegations. The department&#8217;s statement noted that 12 UNRWA employees so far have been accused of involvement in Hamas&#8217; attack.
&#8220;The United States is extremely troubled by the allegations that twelve UNRWA employees may have been involved in the October 7 Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.  The Department of State has temporarily paused additional funding for UNRWA while we review these allegations and the steps the United Nations is taking to address them,&#8221; the <a href="https://www.state.gov/statement-on-unrwa-allegations/">statement</a> from department spokesperson Matthew Miller said.
The UNRWA has a well-documented history of anti-Israel bias.
UNRWA facilitates the spreading of anti-Semitic propaganda via many avenues, the most troublesome of which is perhaps its production of educational materials for children inciting hatred of Jews. Other examples include Nazi-like cartoons <a href="https://unwatch.org/himlaj-mohammad-selmi-unrwa-tv-presenter-posts-anti-semitic-cartoon/">shared on social media by its staff</a> and <a href="http://www.ngo-monitor.org/reports/the_role_of_john_ging_unrwa_director_in_gaza_in_political_warfare/">promoting terrorist-supporting flotillas</a> and violence against Israel. UNRWA has also allowed Hamas to <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/UNRWA-A-Palestinian-anti-Israel-non-territorial-government-374260">use its facilities</a> and has employed its members as staff.
<a href="https://chrissmith.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Hillel_Neuer.pdf">Hillel Neuer</a>, the Executive Director of UN Watch, told a <a href="https://chrissmith.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=411755#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTeachers%20and%20schools%20at%20the,incite%20antisemitism%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Neuer.">congressional hearing</a> back in November that &#8220;Teachers and schools at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which runs education and social services for Palestinians, regularly call to murder Jews, and create teaching materials that glorify terrorism, encourage martyrdom, demonize Israelis and incite antisemitism.”
“In 2022 alone, UNRWA received $344 million in U.S. funding,” Neuer continued. “Yet a March 2023 report by UN Watch and Impact-SE identified 133 UNRWA educators and staff who were found to promote hate and violence on social media, and an additional 82 teachers and other staff affiliated with 30 UNRWA schools who were involved in drafting and distributing hateful content to students.”
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Neuer previously <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/870674370984804352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E870674370984804352%7Ctwgr%5E061f2b4f726dc75c84029959f162c3ef57044916%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fanti-israel-un-agency-caught-pretending-picture-hank-berrien">pointed out</a> in 2017 that the agency had attempted to pass off a picture of a little girl standing amid rubble in war-torn Syria in 2015 as a girl living in the Gaza Strip.
&#8220;Left: UNRWA photo, Jan. 27. 2015, of girl in Syria Right: Same UNRWA photo, May 29, 2017, but now she&#8217;s &#8220;Aya from Gaza&#8221; oppressed by Israel,&#8221; he <a href="https://twitter.com/HillelNeuer/status/870674370984804352?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E870674370984804352%7Ctwgr%5E061f2b4f726dc75c84029959f162c3ef57044916%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailywire.com%2Fnews%2Fanti-israel-un-agency-caught-pretending-picture-hank-berrien">posted</a> on Twitter.
&#8220;No organization exemplifies the UN’s nurturing of Palestinian grievances at the expense of Palestinians better than UNRWA,&#8221; Jonathan Schanzer, the Senior Vice President for Research at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, said during the same hearing in November.
&#8220;The agency has over 30,000 employees. UNRWA doesn’t screen them for ties to terrorist groups, meaning that many employees are members of or affiliated with Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or other violent groups,&#8221; Schanzer pointed out.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee had already scheduled a hearing for Tuesday to examine UNRWA&#8217;s links to Hamas terrorists as well as the attack on Oct. 7, <a href="https://jewishinsider.com/2024/01/us-suspend-aid-unrwa-hamas-israel-terrorism/">according</a> to Jewish Insider.

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U.N. Agency Announces Investigation After Israel Provides ‘Information’ On Its Employees’ Alleged Involvement In Hamas Terrorist Attack

U.N. Agency Announces Investigation After Israel Provides 'Information' On Its Employees' Alleged Involvement In Hamas Terrorist Attack

Iran, the leading state sponsor of terror, is scheduled to lead the United Nations Conference on Disarmament from March 18-29 and May 13-24, the U.N. announced last week.
Each year, the U.N. disarmament conference is presided over by one of the 65 member countries. Each country serves as conference president for four working weeks. The presidency rotates among the members in alphabetical order. Other countries to <a href="https://www.ungeneva.org/en/news-media/press-release/2024/01/la-conference-du-desarmement-tiendra-la-premiere-seance-publique" target="_blank" rel="noopener">serve</a> as conference presidents this year are India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, and Israel.
The Conference on Disarmament is the U.N. body in charge of negotiating nuclear disarmament treaties and a slew of other weapons agreements. Concern over Iran’s nuclear ambitions has grown in recent decades, especially as the Iranian regime has grown more aggressive in the Middle East through a network of terror groups.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a U.N. nuclear watchdog organization, warned last year that Tehran has likely stockpiled enough enriched Uranium to make several nuclear warheads. IAEA inspectors have for months attempted to gain access to Iran’s stockpiles of nuclear material for inspection, but Tehran has barred them.
“Though it may be drowned out due to all the other bad news out of the Middle East involving Iran, the regime is getting closer and closer to establishing itself as a threshold nuclear state,” Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, told <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/world/bidens-iran-nuclear-containment-policy-failing-un-warns-regime-has-enough-material-several-warheads" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fox News</a>.
“If anything, Iran seems to be capitalizing on all the mayhem in the Middle East, mayhem which Washington has failed to curb or manage well, to press ahead in what appears to be a quest for the ultimate deterrent,” he added.
On October 7, the terror group Hamas, backed by Iran, invaded Israel from the Gaza Strip, leading to the death of roughly 1,200 Israelis and the capture of hundreds more in the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust. In recent weeks, Iran has stepped up direct attacks on its neighbors in Iraq, Syria, and Pakistan.
Iran’s strikes, carried out by the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, <a href="https://abcnews.go.com/International/iran-pakistan-airstrikes-middle-east-tensions-explained/story?id=106509031" target="_blank" rel="noopener">led</a> to an unprecedented exchange of fire between Tehran and Islamabad. After an Iranian airstrike killed at least two children and wounded three others, according to Pakistan’s foreign ministry, Pakistani forces launched an airstrike of its own in Iranian territory.
According to Iran’s foreign ministry, the Pakistani airstrike killed at least nine people, none of whom were citizens of Iran. Tehran said that four children, three women, and two men died in the strike. Both sides justified their airstrikes saying that their attacks were directed at insurgents inside the other country aiming to attack their own.

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