Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

[RocketJSquirell]

It is an absurd world in which tiny Israel pays more dues to the UN - an institution primarily devoted to the deligitimization and demonization of Israel - than any Arab country, any Muslim coutnry and even more than some European countries.

Believe It or Not: Israel is the 31st Highest Dues-Paying Country at the UN

I know that this is hard to believe, and it’s absolutely ludicrous, but nevertheless true: Tiny and much-besmirched Israel is the 31st highest dues-paying country – out of 192 member countries – at the UN!

Israel pays over $40 million a year in membership fees to the United Nations, which is more than any Arab or Islamic country, and much more than any of the Third World (and some European) countries who spend a tremendous amount of the UN’s time and budget bashing Israel.

This outrageous and never-before-reported fact was recently revealed at a conference in Israel by Meirav Eilon Shahar, Director of UN Political Affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. People in the audience gasped and then guffawed when they heard her mention this.

. . .

For its money, Israel gets a tremendous amount of UN “love.” Some 20 General Assembly resolutions routinely pass condemning Israel. Three special UN entities with enormous bureaucracies and budgets continue their dedicated work on behalf of the Palestinian cause (the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and the Division for Palestinian Rights within the UN Secretariat – which alone has a sixteen-member staff).

The UN Human Rights Council continues to fund the viciously anti-Israel Flotilla and Goldstone follow-up committees that it established this year, along with a special rapporteur on Israel’s “crimes,” and it habitually devotes most of its time to criticizing Israel (33 of 40 resolutions since its establishment in 2006, and 7 out of 10 emergency debates).

So as the annual General Assembly of the United Nations again readies itself to ritually hammer Israel, this is the situation: Israel will cover about 0.4 percent of the UN’s budget, which is more than 160 nations pay, and in return get the lion’s share of the UN’s collected umbrage, ire, censure, condemnation, demonization and vilification.

A good deal, huh?!
http://davidmweinberg.com/2010/10/02/israel-is-the-31st-highest-dues-paying-country-at-the-un/

 

[Terrywoodenpic]

31st seems fairly well down the list to me. But it is difficult to know what they should be paying.
No one it seems pays more than they are due.
perhaps more important is how much of their apportioned dues, each country actually pays.
And why they don't pay what they should.

As yet the USA have not paid their 2015 contributions in full.
Those that have are listed here http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/honourroll.shtml

Israel paid $10,745,716 on the 24 April 2015 Rather less than the $40 million you mention above.

Payments are not some sort of a bribe against due condemnation in other matters.. there is absolutely no connections between payments and resolutions.

 

[dust1n]

Israel pays over $40 million a year in membership fees to the United Nations, which is more than any Arab or Islamic country, and much more than any of the Third World (and some European) countries who spend a tremendous amount of the UN’s time and budget bashing Israel.

That's all? That's not even a noticeable fraction of the free aid we give to Israel every year, let alone the UN.

 

[columbus]

Israel pays over $40 million a year in membership fees to the United Nations, which is more than any Arab or Islamic country,

You do realize that 40m is a drop in the UN bucket, right? And that funding such an organization is a giant shell game?
I don't know the real figures, this is just a hypothetical. Suppose that 40m were Israel's total contribution. At the same time Jordan spent 80m on foreign refugee camps, administered by the UN. Whose contributions are greater?
I am not bashing Israel here, just pointing out how little your post means in the real world.
Tom

 

[metis]

Just a reminder that Israel is a small country both in size and population, and it has major expenses that are typically much greater in proportion than undoubtedly most countries.

 

[RocketJSquirell]

Israel is smaller than the State of New Jersey Israel has a total population of @ 8.3 million. New Jersey has a total population of @ 8.9 million. Israel has a total GDP 305 billion NJ's GDP 475 billion (in 2008 and has gone up since then)

 

[dust1n]

Israel is smaller than the State of New Jersey Israel has a total population of @ 8.3 million. New Jersey has a total population of @ 8.9 million. Israel has a total GDP 305 billion NJ's GDP 475 billion (in 2008 and has gone up since then)

Just to be clear. 40 million is about .013 %. So for 10000 dollars in the economy of Israel, $1.30 will go to the UN.

Believe it or not, 16.77 trillion is the American GDP. So 3 billion of that is slightly less than .018 %. So we give $1.80.

We also give Israel the same in military aid every year...

That's not the to say the UN doesn't have annoying problems, but perhaps thou doth complain too much about how much more Israel is having to put in. And neither country actually gives troops for peacekeeping missions.

 

[Nietzsche]

Israel is smaller than the State of New Jersey Israel has a total population of @ 8.3 million. New Jersey has a total population of @ 8.9 million. Israel has a total GDP 305 billion NJ's GDP 475 billion (in 2008 and has gone up since then)

Germany makes up roughly 7% of the entire UN budget.

 

[David1967]

Paying dues to be part of a club in which much of its members are less than friendly toward you doesn't seem like a good trade off.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

It is an absurd world in which tiny Israel pays more dues to the UN - an institution primarily devoted to the deligitimization and demonization of Israel ...

Ah snap!

 

[Nietzsche]

Paying dues to be part of a club in which much of its members are less than friendly toward you doesn't seem like a good trade off.

If Israel wants to keep getting that sweet, sweet American money, they'll at least stay in the UN. It'd be nice if the tail didn't wag the dog as much, though.

 

[Godobeyer]

Israel is smaller than the State of New Jersey Israel has a total population of @ 8.3 million. New Jersey has a total population of @ 8.9 million. Israel has a total GDP 305 billion NJ's GDP 475 billion (in 2008 and has gone up since then)

believe or not , Israel had AIPAC

 

[dust1n]

believe or not , Israel had AIPAC

To be fair, all sorts of countries spend money to influence our political system... Israel is barely noticeable in this regard;

'Top 10 foreign governments paying for influence in 2013

1. UAE 14.2 million

2. Germany $12 million

3. Canada $11.2 million

4. Saudi Arabia $11.1 million

5. Mexico $6.1 million

6. Morocco $4 million

7. South Korea $3.9 million

8. Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic) $2.4 million

9. Georgia $2.3 million

10. Azerbaijan $2.3 million"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ies-spent-the-most-to-influence-u-s-politics/

 

[David1967]

To be fair, all sorts of countries spend money to influence our political system... Israel is barely noticeable in this regard;

'Top 10 foreign governments paying for influence in 2013

1. UAE 14.2 million

2. Germany $12 million

3. Canada $11.2 million

4. Saudi Arabia $11.1 million

5. Mexico $6.1 million

6. Morocco $4 million

7. South Korea $3.9 million

8. Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic) $2.4 million

9. Georgia $2.3 million

10. Azerbaijan $2.3 million"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ies-spent-the-most-to-influence-u-s-politics/

Well, that kind of puts things into perspective...kinda depressing though.

 

[columbus]

To be fair, all sorts of countries spend money to influence our political system... Israel is barely noticeable in this regard;

Unfortunately, under the Citizens United Act, even those numbers are questionable. Other countries and foreign concerns can now give essentially unlimited funds to purchase influence. And it needn't be reported.
Tom

 

[dust1n]

Unfortunately, under the Citizens United Act, even those numbers are questionable. Other countries and foreign concerns can now give essentially unlimited funds to purchase influence. And it needn't be reported.
Tom

Some of the numbers I included as present PR numbers, contact with journalists as well, but yes, it's a bit unsettling that through the use of Super PAC's foreigners can channel large portions of money into the country for support of government leaders.

 

[columbus]

Some of the numbers I included as present PR numbers, contact with journalists as well, but yes, it's a bit unsettling that through the use of Super PAC's foreigners can channel large portions of money into the country for support of government leaders.

Still, one would think buying solid influence would cost more than a measly $70m. I'll bet a dozen people in the UAE have boats that cost $14m. They may not even have gotten around to riding on them yet.
The real money goes to the real USA government. People like Goldman Sachs. I'll bet some manager of an account from UAE got a $14m bonus last year.
Tom

 

[Politesse]

For its money, Israel gets a tremendous amount of UN “love.” Some 20 General Assembly resolutions routinely pass condemning Israel. Three special UN entities with enormous bureaucracies and budgets continue their dedicated work on behalf of the Palestinian cause (the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, and the Division for Palestinian Rights within the UN Secretariat – which alone has a sixteen-member staff).
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A good deal, huh?!

Are you suggesting that the UN ought to hush up about human rights abuses because Israel gives them a lot of money? That doesn't sound like good governance to me.

 

[Godobeyer]

To be fair, all sorts of countries spend money to influence our political system... Israel is barely noticeable in this regard;

'Top 10 foreign governments paying for influence in 2013

1. UAE 14.2 million

2. Germany $12 million

3. Canada $11.2 million

4. Saudi Arabia $11.1 million

5. Mexico $6.1 million

6. Morocco $4 million

7. South Korea $3.9 million

8. Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb Republic) $2.4 million

9. Georgia $2.3 million

10. Azerbaijan $2.3 million"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blog...ies-spent-the-most-to-influence-u-s-politics/

Israel (AIPAC) not paying to USA , USA paying to support Israel throught AIPAC .

EDITED :

I found this interesting link , may should investigated

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stat/cost_of_israel.html

 

[dust1n]

Israel (AIPAC) not paying to USA , USA paying to support Israel throught AIPAC .

EDITED :

I found this interesting link , may should investigated

http://www.ifamericansknew.org/stat/cost_of_israel.html

Backwards... AIPAC is a lobby group on the state of Israel. They get money from Israel. They use it to lobby American politicians (this includes funding their campaign and buying them random stuff), including, send more money to Israel for aid, etc. Obviously, a portion of the money we send to Israel makes it way back to AIPAC which uses to lobby for more money, etc.