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 nan United Nations’ backing could beryllium connected nan statement if nan world entity retaliates against Israel complete its warfare pinch Hamas.

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

"Any downgrade successful Israel’s position aliases opinionated astatine nan UNGA will consequence successful a corresponding downgrade of U.S. financial, worldly and governmental support to nan 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 nan United Nations complete Israel. (Getty Images)

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

The lawmakers said they were "outraged" by nan UNGA’s caller take of a solution demanding Israel return each onshore and assets it settled successful nan Palestinian Territories since 1967. It besides calls connected nations to halt pact and waste and acquisition relations pinch Israel wherever Palestinian territories are involved.

They warned nan decision, peculiarly arsenic it relates to forcing Israel retired of nan West Bank, is "undercutting Israel’s correct to take sides itself" from Hamas aft nan Oct. 7 panic onslaught by nan Palestinian militant group "with nary nickname aliases information of Israel’s morganatic information concerns."

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

"Congress has taken statement of nan galore U.N. actions aimed to delegitimize Israel’s correct to self-defense, raising superior questions complete nan early of U.S. backing to nan U.N.," nan lawmakers wrote. "We punctual you that nan U.S. is nan largest philanthropist to nan U.N. Our contributions relationship for one-third of nan body’s corporate budget."

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

"We will not judge nan 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 leader Yahya Sinwar, nan designer of nan Oct. 7 attack.

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Israel has enjoyed a level of dependable support successful Congress passim its warfare successful Gaza, moreover arsenic a growing number of Democrats are criticizing nan Middle Eastern federation for nan scores of Palestinian deaths caused arsenic it useful to eliminate Hamas.

Roughly half of legislature Democrats skipped Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reside to a associated convention of nan House and Senate earlier this year.