Posted on 02/10/2024 6:10:03 PM PST by Milagros
Of all people? Israel haters should clear the name of the UN terror agency.
The UNRWA aid organization employs 13,000 people in Gaza alone - including Palestinians with terrorist connections
By: BJÖRN STRITZEL February 6, 2024 - 8:50 p.m
And this is supposed to be an independent audit?
The Palestinian aid agency UNRWA is facing a problem: several of its employees took part in the Hamas-led pogrom in October in which 1,200 Israelis were murdered. Important donor countries, including Germany, then announced that they would not approve the next payment to UNRWA until the incidents had been clarified.
UNRWA Director Philippe Lazzarini then announced two investigations: one by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services, which is already underway. There should also be a second, external review of UNRWA - these reviewers have now been announced by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
Among them are tough Israel haters who the terror authorities apparently want to clear their names of!
Israel enemies as independent auditors? The auditors appointed by the UN are, on the one hand, the Norwegian Christian Michelsen Institute (CMI) .
The institute's website celebrates South Africa's lawsuit against Israel over alleged genocide at the International Criminal Court: By bringing Israel before the International Court of Justice "with the aim of putting an end to the ongoing massacres in Gaza," South Africa is "posing the moral question the superiority of the West” and “expose its double standards”.
However, the actual massacre - carried out by Hamas and other terrorist groups on October 7th - is not worth criticizing for the CMI.
The Danish Institute for Human Rights is also part of the external review group - and this institute also applauds South Africa's lawsuit against Israel: "The International Court of Justice offers a legal opportunity to act here and not just see how genocide may be committed," comments one of them Researchers on Israeli military operations.
The Swedish Raoul Wallenberg Institute is named as the third member of the review group: It recently stood out with an event with the anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist Richard Falk, who, among other things, accused Israel of a “holocaust” against the Palestinians. An accusation that trivializes the mass murder of six million Jews.
The investigation is being led by former French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna. On January 14, Colonna thanked UNRWA chief Lazzarini on X (formerly Twitter) and assured him of “once again full support” for his work, which is more important than ever.
Two weeks later, Lazzarini came under public pressure because Israeli authorities identified 12 UNRWA employees involved in the Hamas pogrom - and hundreds with ties to Hamas.
According to BILD information, the UNRWA boss had already contacted representatives of Western governments and expressed fears that the aid agency could come under criticism.
The work of the review group is now scheduled to begin on February 14 and be completed at the end of April, said UN General Guterres. The Foreign Office had stated that they wanted to wait for the audit report and then decide whether further money would be paid to UNRWA.
In the last financial year, the Palestinian aid organization received a total of 206.5 million euros in German tax money, of which 130.5 million euros came from the Foreign Office. 83 million euros of the total went to Gaza.
EU should set up its own testing group
The anti-Israel bias of the auditors leaves reasonable doubts as to whether they are really qualified to scrutinize UNRWA, says Daniel Schwammenthal, director of the AJC Transatlantic Institute in Brussels. “I therefore support the European Commission’s demand that these serious allegations be investigated by EU-appointed, independent external experts,” Schwammenthal told BILD. US experts should also be included in the investigation, since the US is ultimately the largest donor. “This is the only way to restore some level of trust that Western funds intended to support needy Palestinians will not be misused to pay the salaries of terrorists.”
UNRWA should be declared a terrorist organization.
Fill those tunnels with RDX and blow the building into orbit.
“Never again.”
Make that the whole U.N. This isn’t the first scandal they’ve been caught in, in which thousands died.
And the rest of the UN a menace to society.
Yea
Richard Falk is an old red, a member of a communist-led group of Red lawyers who are very anti-Israel and have been since the 1970s. His membership record of being in or aiding any-Israel and anti-U.S. groups all over the world. This should include the anti-U.S. tribunal in Cuba about 30 years ago.
If he is a member of the Soviet legal front, the International Association of Democratic Leaders, that makes him a surrogate for Moscow, period.
The whole UN is a terrorist/globalist POS entity....
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...and fund weapons & terror infrastructure (tunnels) for their fantasies of pushing Israel into the sea.
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