Quote:The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East is about to experience "negative cash flows" in April, according to the head of that agency.

Cashflows at the UN agency for Palestinians, UNRWA, will turn negative next month and its financial problems will accelerate in April if funding suspended by a number of countries does not resume, the head of the agency says.

“We will hit a negative cashflow as from March and then it will be accelerated in April unless this frozen contribution is unlocked,” UNRWA head Philippe Lazzarini tells Irish national broadcaster RTE before a meeting in Dublin with the country’s foreign minister.

Several nations halted funding for the agency amid accusations that at least 12 of the UN agency’s workers actively participated in the Hamas terror group’s October 7 massacre and hostage-taking in Israel.

While the United Nations has, arguably, outlived its usefulness, the UNRWA has downright collaborated with terrorists and deserves to die on the vine.

The nations that are halting funding for UNRWA are doing so after an Israeli investigation uncovered that at least a dozen UNRWA employees provided support for or actually participated in the Oct 7th attacks by Hamas against Israel.

An Israeli intelligence document shared on Monday with CBS News and a number of other Western news outlets spells out allegations against a dozen U.N. employees whom Israel says participated in Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack. The document claims seven staff members of UNRWA, the U.N. humanitarian agency that helps Palestinian refugees, stormed into Israeli territory during that attack, including two who participated in kidnappings.

Ireland, however, appears to be willing to throw a lifeline to this agency which has been so compromised by Hamas.

Ireland announced 20 million euros ($21.46 million) in support for the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) on Thursday and urged countries that have suspended funding to resume and expand support to the agency.

The last few years have been rife with stories of misbehavior and outright criminal activity by UN peacekeepers and other personnel, including solicitation of prostitution in the Democratic Republic of Congo, sexual exploitation and abuse in the Central African Republic, and a host of other infractions for which it is proving difficult to hold the malefactors accountable.

This begs the question, "What good is the United Nations doing?"

The United Nations has been in place for nearly 80 years; member nations have spent nearly a trillion dollars keeping that doddering, corrupt institution up and running. It may have seemed to fill a vital role in the years immediately following the Second World War and all the horrors that were suffered in that conflict. Today, though, it is nothing more than an enormous international bureaucracy and money sink. The UNRWA's actions are just the latest in a long list of outright crimes committed by UN personnel, as noted above.

Maybe it's time the free nations of the world kick the UN to the curb and try something new.