Alex Winston
Jerusalem Post, Feb. 24, 2024
“What will happen in Gaza, at the end of the day, will depend on if Hamas is destroyed and who is in control afterward. In an ideal world, there shouldn’t be any UN agency. The Palestinians should run it [Gaza] themselves, the world should help them, and they should develop like a normal society.”
“Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4,” character Winston Smith writes in his secret diary at the beginning of George Orwell’s dystopian masterpiece 1984.
As we see in the novel, the Party – the established order – can decide that 2+2, in fact, equals 5, despite all evidence pointing to the contrary. Hillel Neuer must feel, at times, like Winston Smith. He knows the truth despite the best efforts of the Party and its associates to keep him in line.
Neuer, the prominent lawyer and human rights advocate who is the executive director of the nongovernmental organization UN Watch, has spent nearly 20 years at the helm, and pours his efforts into holding UN member states accountable for their actions and promoting transparency and accountability within the UN system.
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