Israel-Hamas war: Germany joins states pausing UNRWA funding
Israel-Hamas war: Germany joins states pausing UNRWA funding
Germany joined the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries in pausing funding to the UN's aid agency for Palestinians. DW has the latest.
Strange priorities and logic by powerful country.
Dozen UN staffer involved in warcrime = stop funding and distance themselves with the UN.
Lots and lots of documented IDF warcrime = continued standing with them and funding their warcrime.
Hell, the staffers haven't even been proven complicit! All this is based on is allegations from the Israeli government.
The same Israeli government whose genocidal campaign benefits when aid from organizations like this one doesn't reach the people they're trying to wipe out.
The same Israeli government who has been caught lying about their own actions hundreds if not thousands of times and even has an officially stated policy of lying and fabricating evidence when necessary to further their goals.
The same Israeli government that for decades have repeatedly accused the UN of bias and bigotry when the UN have condemned their atrocious actions.
The same Israeli government whose propaganda efforts suffered a serious blow from the preliminary ICJ ruling just hours before the news about the allegations came out.
I'm not usually one for conspiracy theories, but this whole thing stinks to high heaven.
No but you see, Israel cannot do anything wrong! Their ancestors were survivors of the holocaust, so they can do whatever they want!
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You can't change Israel's behaviour by stopping funds, they'd just double down and bankroll stuff on their own. You can get the UN to clean up the UNWRA by suspending funding.
Also, hot take: This is about the best time to do it since UNWRA can't provide aid in Gaza right now anyways, what with the IDF being around and all.
And all this isn't new btw donor countries have been griping around e.g. PA textbooks for ages, UNWRA is teaching from those, say that they're training their teachers to identify and be critical of sections glorifying martyrdom etc, but the record is spotty at best.
And just for completeness' sake yes Israel is doing a similar thing in its education system, just more covert. There's a reason that Poland isn't allowing Israeli security forces to accompany trips to Auschwitz any more as that's part of Israel's "you're safe nowhere but in Israel, everyone is out to get you" indoctrination programme. Simply not allowing Israelis to walk around armed in Poland was sufficient, cutting funds would've been kinda hard as Israel is paying those trips out of pocket. Figures that having those trips is more important to Israel than to indoctrinate so they caved.
You can't change Israel's behaviour by stopping funds, they'd just double down and bankroll stuff on their own. You can get the UN to clean up the UNWRA by suspending funding.
This is the sort of weird logic i'm talking about. You can't change the action of one country so you continue pouring fund and stand with them and defend them of any wrongdoing. How's that gonna change anything when everyone is actively encouraging them to do it rather than pulling back support and funding? If it's another country it will get sanction to hell.
It's like your 12 years old only know how to throw a tantrum whenever they want something and instead of trying to correct it, you continue to support their behaviour and hope one day they will sort of grow out of it. Spoiler alert: it won't.
You can’t change Israel’s behaviour by stopping funds, they’d just double down and bankroll stuff on their own.
You can at least make it harder. The idea of "They'll do it anyway so might as well", aside from being dubious at best, doesn't help anyone.
You can get the UN to clean up the UNWRA by suspending funding.
They're already doing that. 13 employees were caught and they were fired (the ones who aren't dead anyway).
And all this isn’t new btw donor countries have been griping around e.g. PA textbooks for ages, UNWRA is teaching from those, say that they’re training their teachers to identify and be critical of sections glorifying martyrdom etc, but the record is spotty at best.
The double standard of expecting perfection from Palestinians while Israel is subjecting them to Apartheid and committing genocide won't do anything to help end the conflict. Don't want people glorifying terror? Stop funding the environment where terror seems like a legitimate means of resistance. Until that happens criticism of Palestinian textbooks is both missing the elephant in the room and very tone deaf.
United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA, after Israel alleged that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
Hamas militant disguising themselves as civilians is one thing, but as human development agents is a whole new level.
These countries are fine with israel shooting civilians wearing white flags and need more time to investigate...
But when israel accuses UNRWA of something all Palestinians better die in a ditch.
Pretty disgusting how far these "leaders" are willing to grovel for Netanyahu.
Pretty wild how we just gloss over the acts on October 7th and focus solely on Netanyahu’s scorched earth tactics for revenge.
I think I missed the point where everyone glossed over 7 October. It's just that we're not exactly giving Hamas F35's to bomb civilians with.
Yet the IDF which has killed 25 times as many civilians since then somehow is still getting them.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The plea came after multiple countries, including Germany, paused their funding following allegations that some of the agency's staffers were involved in the terror attacks on Israel on October 7.
"While I understand their concerns — I was myself horrified by these accusations — I strongly appeal to the governments that have suspended their contributions to, at least, guarantee the continuity of UNRWA's operations," Guterres said in a statement on Sunday.
The UN said it is investigating allegations from Israel that around a dozen UNWRA staff members were involved in the terror attack staged by the Hamas militant group that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,100 people and the kidnapping of 240 more.
The New York Times reported that CIA Director William J. Burns will meet with Israeli, Egyptian and Qatari officials in the French capital.
Germany joined a growing list of countries to pause funding to the United Nations aid agency for Palestinian refugees, the UNRWA, after Israel alleged that 12 staff members were involved in the October 7 attack by Hamas militants.
"We expect Lazzarini to make it clear within UNRWA's workforce that all forms of hatred and violence are totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated," the ministry said on social media.
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I'm sure the Houthis and South Africans are going to pick up the tab. They have a lot of concern for the Palestinians.