12 Dems join GOP lawmakers to threaten UN funding over 'ongoing hostility' to Israel

FIRST ON FOX: More than 100 bipartisan House lawmakers are informing that the United Nations’ backing could beryllium connected the enactment if the planetary entity retaliates against Israel implicit its warfare with Hamas.

"We constitute to explicit our heavy interest astir prospective efforts of the Palestinian Authority to downgrade Israel’s presumption astatine the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) and portion the State of Israel of its cardinal privileges successful the body," a missive led by Reps. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., and Jared Moskowitz, D-Fla, read.

"Any downgrade successful Israel’s presumption oregon lasting astatine the UNGA volition effect successful a corresponding downgrade of U.S. financial, worldly and governmental enactment to the U.N."

The message, sent to U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres, was signed by 105 of their Republican and Democrat colleagues.

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Reps. Mike Lawler and Jared Moskowitz, right, are starring a bipartisan informing to the United Nations implicit Israel. (Getty Images)

Signatories see each the House Republican leadership, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and 11 House Democrats, successful summation to Moskowitz – a testament to the important enactment Israel continues to person from Congress, peculiarly successful the House of Representatives.

The lawmakers said they were "outraged" by the UNGA’s caller adoption of a solution demanding Israel instrumentality each onshore and assets it settled successful the Palestinian Territories since 1967. It besides calls connected nations to halt pact and commercialized relations with Israel wherever Palestinian territories are involved.

They warned the decision, peculiarly arsenic it relates to forcing Israel retired of the West Bank, is "undercutting Israel’s close to support itself" from Hamas aft the Oct. 7 panic onslaught by the Palestinian militant radical "with nary designation oregon information of Israel’s morganatic information concerns."

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds signs arsenic helium addresses the 79th league of the United Nations General Assembly. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

"Congress has taken enactment of the galore U.N. actions aimed to delegitimize Israel’s close to self-defense, raising superior questions implicit the aboriginal of U.S. backing to the U.N.," the lawmakers wrote. "We punctual you that the U.S. is the largest donor to the U.N. Our contributions relationship for one-third of the body’s corporate budget."

The missive besides accused the U.N. of having "definitively taken sides against Israel," alternatively than remaining a "neutral body."

"We volition not judge the U.N.’s ongoing hostility to our state Israel," they wrote.

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It comes arsenic cease-fire talks are expected to restart aft Israeli forces killed Hamas person Yahya Sinwar, the designer of the Oct. 7 attack.

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Israel has enjoyed a level of dependable enactment successful Congress passim its warfare successful Gaza, adjacent arsenic a growing fig of Democrats are criticizing the Middle Eastern federation for the scores of Palestinian deaths caused arsenic it works to eradicate Hamas.

Roughly fractional of legislature Democrats skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's code to a associated league of the House and Senate earlier this year.