“The United Nations and the secretary-general cannot compel Israel to change course,” Brett Schaefer, of the Heritage Foundation, told JNS.
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With a pair of laws, which the Knesset passed in October, slated to go into effect on Jan. 30 shuttering the U.N. Relief and Works Agency office in Jerusalem, reporters asked at a United Nations press briefing on Wednesday whether the U.N. agency would comply with the Israeli laws.
“Let’s see what happens when the sun rises over Jerusalem tomorrow,” Stéphane Dujarric, spokesman for António Guterres, the U.N. secretary-general, told reporters.
