SLAM!
How many slams can a nation survive?
The answer is blowin’ in the wind.
I mean, the UNRWA needs to stop hiring terrorists. Vetting needs to be done better. At the same time though, Palestinians do need the aid, desperately. It’s a mess of a situation.
Isn’t this all based on Israeli accusations? As we know, Israel can’t really be trusted
I doubt UNRWA would have hired them knowing this. If I recall it was 13 out of 13,000 employees? They terminated their contracts right away even before investigating them. Seems like UNRWA rectified its issue.
Cutting the funding is just silent participation in the genocide.
The problem for me is that it’s not the first time that it’s happened. It’s definitely much less of a problem than Israel makes it out to be, but it is at the same time most certainly a problem. At the very least, the amount of people sympathetic to a literal terrorist organisation and attack (as revealed by the UN Watch of the existence of a Telegram group of 3000 UNRWA educators where talk switched between official business and antisemitism etc. https://twitter.com/hillelneuer/status/1746962851955191937) is too high.
Not to say the UN Watch isn’t itself biased (which it is), because of course everything has bias, but there have been quite many legitimate accusations that show that the UN does not have a good track record on this. And the UN does have an anti-Israel slant (though not as strong as the UN Watch’s pro-Israel slant)
I do think that the funding shouldn’t be cut. But again, this still does need to be solved, it’s an actual institutional problem. But I don’t have a solution.
Can you show some examples of these previous problems with the UN?
I don’t trust the UN Watch to define antisemitism. Lol. But we can discuss that too and their report, I just need to have it open on my laptop.
PS: I speak Arabic and checked that Twitter thread. No antisemetic content as far as I can see (checked the first 5 or so images posted). Looks like this guy just scribbled crap on top of people’s social media posts and called it support for October 7th. The other half of the stuff is just normal admin stuff? Wow what a crime lol
Terrorists = Anyone fighting against western imperialism and colonialism
No, terrorists are people who attack civilians as a war crime. Including actions from both the IDF and Hamas. And certain actions from US troops in various wars. But this is not the first account nor instance of UNRWA and its facilities being used in support of or directly for when Hamas does military action, which only endangers Palestinian civilians. If hospitals and schools etc. are indiscriminately used as war facilities, they become valid targets under international law, and thereby makes the civilians there much more at risk.
Were the Viet Cong terrorists too? They attacked villages, took hostages, and used tunnels and guerilla warfare just the same. These are simply the most effective tactics for driving out an occupying force, and they wouldn’t be necessary if the colony wasn’t there in the first place.
Decolonization is violent. The best way to avoid it is to not colonize in the first place.
And certain actions from US
Not “certain actions”; the entirety of the US is a rogue terrorist state founded on the genocide of millions of indigenous people, slavery, and endless wars.
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They’re literally both terrorists, I don’t know what to tell you. But even when killing civilians, there are rules that sometimes allow it according to proportionality rules (which I think Israel has violated). And of course the Israeli government actively wants to and are by the definitions of many committing genocide, which is way worse.
Unless you think that Hamas killing people at a music festival is somehow a valid military target, they’re terrorists. Just like how the IDF are terrorists for attacking Palestinian journalists and innocent family members.
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“Terrorist” is a meaningless term in the first place really. It’s used by the imperial core to describe anyone from their own right-wing tools like the ISIS to anyone fighting against imperialism like Hamas Ansarullah.
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