Posted on 06/14/2025 3:48:19 PM PDT by karpov
Who’s terrorizing whom in the West Bank? President Biden had one answer, backed by United Nations data, and built an unprecedented sanctions regime to address Israeli “settler violence,” a suddenly ubiquitous term. On Tuesday the U.K., Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway announced sanctions on two Israeli ministers. But the data doesn’t stand up to scrutiny.
A new report by Regavim, a right-wing Israeli NGO, takes the trouble of scrutinizing the statistics from the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), on which the Biden case relied. Poring over the U.N.’s list of 6,285 violent incidents by settlers from January 2016 through April 2023, Regavim noticed something: “The UN database includes thousands of clearly non-violent incidents in its count of violent events.”
Every visit by Jews to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, which is administered and venerated by Muslims too, is counted as settler violence. So are class trips to archaeological sites, traffic accidents, state infrastructure work and trespassing by hikers. Other incidents are in Jerusalem, which isn’t a settlement.
None of this is what “settler violence” summons to mind. Filtering out the thousands of such cases leaves 833 alleged incidents of nationalist violence resulting in bodily harm—a definition the U.N. claims to apply—over the 7½-year period.
But those don’t hold up either. The Orwellian U.N. counts Palestinians harmed in the process of committing terrorist attacks as victims of settler violence. In about half the 833 cases, the U.N. also records the victim’s “involvement in clashes,” leaving it unclear who started it. In 117 of the cases, the U.N. says Israeli security forces, not settlers, are to blame.
Meanwhile, Israel’s Shin Bet records 6,068 serious attacks by Palestinians (shootings, stabbings, suicide bombings, etc.) against Israeli civilians over only two years, 2020-22.
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It fudges the data on everything because it’s very corrupt
Just shaking my head.
Shocked face....😴
Propaganda at its finest!
Thanks for the truth. It is hard to find sometimes.
BTTT
Unreal
Fudges...
In my neck of the woods we call that LYING.
The UN is dedicated to World Government, and consequently One World Religion. They have chosen Islam and should be considered a part of a movement to supercede every other religion on Earth.
The USA, Israel and many other countries are in the way.
Corrupt fudge is the worst fudge.
A few years ago ( maybe 30?) the UN was heavily favoring the Bahai religion….
I guess they switched horses …. Obviously.
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