The US Permanent Representative to the United Nations accused the UN of “inordinately over-focus” on Israel, which has killed more than 41,100 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October, saying that “there is an unfair amount of focus on Israel”.

“I think that we have an Israel problem in the UN. And there is an inordinately over-focus on Israel – even before Gaza – in the UN. It’s something that we have raised on a regular basis,” said Linda Thomas-Greenfield during an event at the Council on Foreign Relations late Thursday, Anadolu reported. 

“There is no other country in the world that has a monthly meeting on the (Security) Council’s agenda going back decades,” the US envoy said, describing the “unfair amount of focus on Israel in the UN” as “problematic”.

Asked about recognizing the Palestinian State, Thomas-Greenfield gave an evasive response as she claimed that “a state has certain responsibilities for its people, and I do not believe the Palestinians, as they exist right now, have all of the elements to give it statehood.

She also bluntly responded to a question about the arrest warrant issued for Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor, Karim Khan, and said: “We have been clear that we have a problem with the Court’s ruling.”

“Well, let me be clear: We will not arrest him,” she stressed.

On 20 May, ICC Prosecutor, Karim Khan, announced that the court was seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his war minister  Yoav Gallant, on charges of committing war crimes.

If arrest warrants are issued, Netanyahu and Gallant would be unable to travel to any of the 124 member countries of the ICC, where its rulings are binding.

Israel is also accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah,

The US remains accused of complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaz through its unwavering military support for the apartheid regime. 

Over the past months, protesters in American cities have called on the Biden administration to stop arming Israel.