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MARLBORO-I truly appreciated the Jeff Potter's sincerity in the recent Editor's Notebook column. It put a human face on the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making The Commons available each week. First and foremost, I want to appreciate Jeff for making the Voices section of the paper possible.
With that established, I would like to challenge his example of the United Nations as a reputable source of information.
The U.N. has a well-documented history of corruption, including (but not limited to) the Oil-for-Food Scandal, the John Ashe bribery scandal in the 2010s, and most recently, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) scandal in Gaza.
Ironically, for over a decade, a nonprofit, UN Watch, attempted to sound the alarm on UNRWA's misuse of humanitarian aid for the funding of terrorism. Year after year, the U.N. stubbornly refused to address the problem, leading to the Oct. 7, 2023 massacre. If it wasn't an intentional oversight, it sure looks like one.
