The Western/ Israel scandal to stop UNRWA

2024-02-11 -- 2024-01-29

To suspend funding to UNRWA in response to the alleged crimes of 12 employees is pretty much the definition of collective punishment.

U0 Western fury at the ICJ decision (UNRWA)
U6 Stop the Presses! Hamas Militants Have Day Jobs!
U5 Defunding UNRWA Is Collective Punishment
U4 Continuing the Genocide by Other Means
U3 Double Standards When Suspending UNRWA Funds
U2 After Bombing UNRWA, Isra-l Is Self-Victimizing
U1 17,000 Children - No Parents, over 100,000 dead/ injured!

V0 Israel's Plan to Starve 2 Million People (YT) 2024-02-09

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Western fury at the ICJ decision (UNRWA)

Norman Finkelstein

SIMPLE TRUTHS - In Gaza - ICJ

Behind the contrived hysteria at UNRWA lurks Western fury at the ICJ decision;

If Israel is plausibly guilty of genocide, then the “enlightened” West stands guilty of complicity in genocide;

They can’t lash out at the ICJ—that’s uncivilized! — so these cowardly sadists starve the children of Gaza instead.

The puke beneath the thin veneer of Western Civilization has yet again burst forth.

But rational hope springs eternal:
- South Africa’s sublime delegation at the ICJ;
- The foreign doctors who volunteered on a suicide mission to serve in Gaza’s inferno;
- The Gazan journalists who dared Fate by reporting the Truth as Israeli snipers methodically shot them dead;
- And the Houthis!, who don’t stop their ears and blind their eyes to the agonized cries in Gaza, but—moved by the natural faculty of pity, and lacking the gift of “reason” to rationalize away this pity—have instead thrown down the gauntlet to the barbarous West: No business as usual—No commerce, No trade—while Gaza is crucified!

“Men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature [God]^[1] had not given them pity to aid their reason.” (Rousseau)

January 30, 2024 [normanfinkelstein - simple truths]

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Stop the Presses! Hamas Militants Have Day Jobs!

Norman Finkelstein
Let’s assume the horrible, awful, godforsaken worst: several of the 3,000 Hamas militants involved in the October 7 attack worked in UNRWA. Others no doubt worked in hospitals, bakeries, banks, and schools.

So what? UNRWA employs 13,000^[2] Gazans. The miracle would be if none was in Hamas. This “story”—even were it true—was obviously contrived to distract from the ICJ decision and punish UNWRA (outspoken UNRWA head Philippe Lazarini was quoted twice by the American judge reading the decision).

The sadistic Western powers—led by the U.S. and including Germany, Japan, Canada, Netherlands, Britain, Australia, Austria, and Finland^[3]—have now suspended aid to the starving people of Gaza.

One hopes the great Houthi people, while carrying out their humanitarian mission, will take special note of ships from these countries.

Jan 29, 2024 [normfinkelstein]

Comment SH
How does it make sense that an accusation extracted under torture by a state that constantly lies to justify its crimes is taken seriously, while the ruling by the world highest court that states there is a plausible cause for genocide is just dismissed as meritless.
How is that acceptable or logical or humanely possible????
All these countries withholding funding from the UNRWA are complicit in genocide.

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Defunding UNRWA Is Collective Punishment

UNRWA was founded in 1948 by the United Nations, with the support of the United States to ameliorate the dire situation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees after the Nakba, when they were forcefully and violently ethnically cleansed from their villages and towns by the Zionist terrorist gangs.

Nicholas Coghlan
Comparison
25yrs ago, the response to catastrophe in southern #Sudan was the UN's Operation Lifeline Sudan. OLS was imperfect, inefficient, abused by warlords. But the show went on: such is the humanitarian imperative. Defunding = collective punishment. #Gaza 2024-01-28 @NicholasCoghlan

I'm shocked that many Western countries have suspended funding to UNRWA in response to the alleged crimes of 12 employees. This is pretty much the definition of collective punishment.
2024-01-28 NN

No all European countries stop the UNRWA funding.

MM
Excellent statement from Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs re: UNRWA. Here’s part of it:

Norway-remains-a-major-donor-to-UNRWA, 2024-01-28

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Continuing the Genocide by Other Means

MK
🇺🇦 Neonazi-Bataillone sind kein Grund, keine schweren Waffen zu liefern.
🇵🇸 12 von 30000 UNRWA Mitarbeitern, die von einer für Folter bekannten 🇮🇱-Stasi beschuldigt werden, sind Grund, den #ICJ zu umgehen und den Genozid mit anderen Mitteln fortzusetzen. 2024-01-28

hunger-2-kids-gaza

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🇺🇦 Neo-Nazi battalions are no reason not to supply heavy weapons.
🇵🇸 12 out of 30,000 UNRWA employees accused by an 🇮🇱-Stasi known for torture is reason to bypass the #ICJ and continue the genocide by other means.

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Double Standards When Suspending UNRWA Funds

Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt
Western governments have suspended #UNRWA funds due to serious ALLEGATIONS agst 12 staff.

Same governments have not suspended ties with the state [Isra-l] whose army has killed 26k people in Gaza in 3.5 months, though ICJ said it may plausibly constitute GENOCIDE.

The-Nazis-Made-Me-Afraid-to-Be-a-Jew-Israel-Shahak

Double standards? Yes, big time.
Jan 31, 2024 @FranceskAlbs

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After Bombing UNRWA, Isra-l Is Self-Victimizing

Pelham
Israel bombed UNRWA refugee camps..

Israel bombed UNRWA schools..

Israel blocked UNRWA food aid..

Israel bombed UNRWA warehouses..

Israel killed over 10,000 children registered with UNRWA..

Now Israel says UNRWA is the terrorists, and they are the victims… 🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇳
January 31, 2024 @Resist_05

Israel bombed UNRWA refugee camps..

Israel bombed UNRWA schools..

Israel blocked UNRWA food aid..

Israel bombed UNRWA warehouses..

Israel killed over 10,000 children registered with UNRWA..

Now Israel says UNRWA is the terrorists, and they are the victims…🇮🇱🇵🇸🇺🇳 pic.twitter.com/NzYuaTbptS
— Pelham (@Resist_05) January 31, 2024

When you see this destruction of Palestinian infrastructure, know that Israel still is the victim!^[4]

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17,000 Children - No Parents, over 100,000 dead/ injured!

UNRWA
Over 100,000 people in📍#Gaza are either dead, injured, or missing and presumed dead.

An estimated 17,000 children are unaccompanied or separated from their parents - 1% of the 1.7M displaced population.

#Gaza is being strangled and the world seems to have lost its humanity.
Feb 2, 2024 @UNRWA

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Source: World Health Organization (WHO) and 7 others

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Israel's Plan to Starve 2 Million People

By Peter Oborne, who is a columnist for Middle East Eye. 2024-02-09

"Not a single murmur of protest from the British / or any other Western/ government!"

"In any case, what Westerners call civilization, the others would call barbarity, because it is precisely lacking in the essential, that is to say, a principle of a higher order."
René Guénon, East And West, 1924

صلّى الله على سيّدنا محمّد و على آله و صحبه و سلّم

The blessings and peace of Allah on the Prophet, his Family, and his Companions, ( sallAllahu `aleihi wa sallam ) .

{Allah (God) is Able to do all things} 2-109, and {Allah is aware of the evil-doers.} 2-246, {And He does what He wills.} 2-253, and {Truly, Allah is full of kindness, the Most Merciful towards mankind.} 2-143
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UNRWA has 30,000 staff across Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. 13,000 of these work in Gaza to distribute aid, save lives and ensure the population's essential needs and rights.
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and Sweden…
Norway did not cut its support to UNRWA, and Spain increased it threefold !
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The WSJ article
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Intelligence Reveals Details of U.N. Agency Stall's Links to Oct. 7 Attack

SUBTITLE
Around 10% of Palestinian aid agency's 12,000 staff in Gaza have links to militants, according to intelligence dossier.

By Carrie Keller-Lynn and David Luhnow
Updated Jan. 29, 2024 at 8:27 am ET

The article was co-written by Carrie Keller-Lynn, .

Sana Saeed
Seems @wsj’s Carrie Keller-Lynn’s service with the IDF and her years of advocacy for Israel may be a bit relevant in her reporting.
2024-01-30 @SanaSaeed

Carrie: "I went to serve in the military in 2009, and I was living on a kibbutz. It was a big change and it was a bit lonely. Aliza helped turn that around. …"
Source: @SanaSaeed

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Marc Owen Jones

🧵1/ Analysis of why Israel's UNRWA 'dossier' smearing UNRWA is misleading propaganda.

Indeed, Israel's own statistics actually show that the alleged Hamas presence in UNRWA is significantly LOWER than elsewhere in #Gaza.
@marcowenjones
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