EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Darrell Issa wants the UN to “formally designate Hamas as a terrorist organization"
“In the simplest terms, it is time for the United Nations to formally designate Hamas as a terrorist organization,” Issa wrote.
Hours after President Donald Trump took the United Nations (UN) to task, one of the House’s top foreign policy experts wants the UN to “formally designate Hamas as a terrorist organization.”
In a letter obtained exclusively by the Washington Reporter, Rep. Darrell Issa wrote to UN Secretary-General António Guterres, demanding that he designate the U.S.-designated terrorist organization as a terrorist organization.
“In the simplest terms, it is time for the United Nations to formally designate Hamas as a terrorist organization,” Issa wrote.
“The reasons for this realignment are manifestly obvious,” Issa explained. “The world has witnessed Hamas’ decades-long and unceasing campaign of violence against civilians and murder of innocents — including suicide bombings, proliferating rocket attacks against neighborhoods, kidnappings, and the deliberate use of human shields.”
Issa, one of the staunchest defenders of Israel in Congress, added that Hamas’s “terror tactics culminated on October 7th, 2023, when more than 1,200 Israelis, Americans, and other foreign nationals — including women, children, and the elderly — were shot, tortured, and burned to death.”
“These are not the acts of a political movement, social service organization, or a legitimate governing authority,” Issa wrote — taking head-on the argument by some on the left that Hamas is merely a political movement. “They are all outrages against the rights of any citizen of the world. By any definition, Hamas stands in direct opposition to the principles of peace, stability, and human dignity that the United Nations was founded to uphold.”
The UN’s lack of a “formal designation” of Hamas as a terrorist organization “allows critical gaps to persist and they provide a daily path for its terror,” Issa caution.
“As long as this contradiction remains within the international system, streams of funding, material support, and undeserved political legitimacy cover will continue to flow to Hamas — only these resources are used to perpetuate violence, derail dialogue, and further destabilize the Middle East and even the broader region,” Issa explained.
On October 7th, 2023, there were multiple instances of UN employees partaking in massacres and kidnapping living and dead hostages into Gaza.
Issa wants the UN to send a clear message, as unlikely as it is that the UN will do so: “terrorism in all its forms will not be legitimized.”
Following Trump’s barnburner of a speech, Issa emphasized that his foreign policy and Trump’s are fully aligned.
“The Trump administration is making one foreign policy perfectly clear,” Issa said. “The United States is and will remain a leading light in the pursuit of peace. But as you surely understand, peace requires a unified international front. I urge you and the General Assembly to act with speed and resolve in labeling Hamas a terrorist organization and ensuring that the United Nations reaffirms a moral stand to reject terror and embrace coexistence.”
Read Rep. Darrell Issa’s full letter to the United Nations here.
