Posted on 10/07/2004 1:43:44 AM PDT by OldGuardChampion
Missing the point – UN employs terrorists!
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
October 6th, 2004
JERUSALEM - The international media this week buzzed with the news that Israel had accused the UN of allowing its ambulances in Gaza to participate in terrorist activities, only to back down when local representatives of the world body fought back.
But far less attention was given to the fact that the head of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) in the Gaza Strip openly admitted Monday to having Hamas members on the payroll.
UNWRA’s Peter Hansen smugly told Canadian television that he is certain Hamas members were employed by his agency, but did not in any way see this as “a crime.”
When Israel demanded Hansen be removed from his post, the senior UN official further showed his contempt for the Jewish people by invoking a notorious czarist libel.
“Israel doesn’t make unilateral decisions in the UN, yet,” said Hansen, referencing the widely held anti-Semitic notion, based on the venomous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, that the Jews seek world domination.
Ambulance controversy
Last week, an unmanned Israeli drone took footage of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza City loading a long slender object into the back of a UN ambulance.
Israeli military experts said that based on their analysis, the object being placed into the ambulance was a Kassam rocket.
Hansen vehemently denied the charge, and insisted the ambulance crew had loaded a rolled up stretcher into the vehicle. He demanded Israel apologize for the accusation.
An IDF spokesman Tuesday told reporters that while Israel could not be 100 percent certain the object in the footage was a rocket, the use of UN vehicles and facilities for terrorist activity remained a reality.
Not an isolated incident
Just four months ago, “we saw an UNRWA vehicle being used to drive terrorists” through the streets of Gaza City en route to battle IDF soldiers operating there, Israel’s UN Ambassador Dan Gillerman said Sunday.
In the north, Hizballah terrorists drove a UN-marked vehicle up to Lebanon’s border with Israel in October 2000 and ambushed three IDF soldiers there. It was later learned the three, who were kidnapped, died from wounds sustained during the attack.
That incident occurred under the direct observation of a nearby UN border post filled with armed “peacekeepers”.
Terror’s employer
This week’s specific ambulance incident in Gaza, however, was rendered largely irrelevant by Hansen’s admitting to having members of a known terrorist organization on UNWRA’s payroll.
"Oh, I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll and I don't see that as a crime," Hansen told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Hansen attempted to gloss over the issue by drawing a distinction between the “political” and “military” wings of Hamas.
“Hamas as a political organization does not mean that every member is a militant and we do not do political vetting and exclude people from one persuasion as against another,” said Hansen.
The practice of condemning Hamas’ terrorist activities, while embracing and supporting its ostensible social programs has long been a mainstay of European politics.
US Congressman Brad Sherman attacked that duplicitous position last month, saying it was like doing “business with the political wing of the Nazi Party” while rejecting the military wing.
The Zionist Organization of America released a statement Wednesday urging the Bush administration to halt $100 million in annual US aid to UNWRA following Hansen’s revelation.,p>
“UNRWA's long record of collaborating with the terrorists against Israel is a gross violation of its declared purpose, to provide humanitarian aid to refugees and undermines America's war against terror,” wrote ZOA National President Morton Klein.
A spokesman for the Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs said his nation was also seeking clarification on Hansen’s comment, and would reconsider Canada’s $10 million in annual aid to UNRWA if his words accurately represented the agency’s position.
Seething anti-Semite
Further displaying his contempt for Israel and the Jewish people, Hansen responded to Israel’s demand that the UN replace him as the head of UNWRA by invoking a dangerous anti-Semitic libel dating back to the time of czarist Russia.
In the 1800’s, the regime in Moscow published what is known as the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a booklet outlining Jewish designs for world domination.
Building on the current widely held view that the Jews already control the world’s finances and largely dictate Western politics, Hansen said he did not believe they had yet taken command of the UN.
The Jewish state “doesn't make unilateral decisions in the UN, yet," he told Israel’s Channel One News.
The UN is involved in yet another scandal. One of these days the world will wake up and realize that they are a mob of sniviling bureaucrats whose organization has devolved into an ineffectual debating society whose sole purpose is to bleed the world and make its officials feel important.
God bless Israel!
DEAR ISRAEL: Demand the UN put a license-plate number, readable by an unpiloted vehicle, on the roof of every one of its UN-marked vehicles. If they don't, then the vehicles become targets.
Demand that each vehicle be inspectable on demand by explosive-sniffing dogs.
And yes, you can and should make rules for the UN.
It is time to get out of the dastardly organization. Its whole existence has been to undermine the US and promote globalism.
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