Palestinian NGO may regret its UN ‘victory’ | The Jewish Chronicle

Palestinian NGO may regret its UN ‘victory’ | The Jewish Chronicle

…But PRC now faces unintended consequences. Its UN bid has turned a global spotlight on Hamas’s growing efforts to penetrate influential political and legal circles in Europe, under the innocent-sounding banner of “the right of return”.

Moreover, the fact that Israel’s motion to reject the group won an unprecedented amount of support for a UN vote concerning the Jewish state will be lost on no one. Co-sponsored by Canada, Australia and the US, Israel’s preemptive move to block the PRC won the support of 13 countries on the 54-nation ECOSOC, including Austria, Botswana, France, Germany, Greece and Italy….