The Israeli parliament gave preliminary approval on Monday to a bill that declares the main United Nations relief organisation for Palestinians a terrorist organisation and proposes to sever relations with the body, Reuters reports.
The vote against the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is the latest step in an Israeli push against the Agency, which Israeli leaders have accused of collaborating with the Hamas Movement in Gaza.
Israel has said hundreds of UNRWA staff are members of terrorist groups, including Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but has yet to provide evidence to a UN-appointed review.
Ah, the relief agency that was thoroughly proven not to be a terrorist organization last time Israel tried this, a few months ago. I guess they just need some way to make sure Palestinians aren’t saved from starvation, thirst and disease.
And carpet bombing. Now it’s your time to speak, Kamala. What do you have to say about this?
‘Crickets’ is the best Americans can hope for, to be fair.
Crickets would be immense improvement to arming and supporting a genocide.
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Secure American democracy
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Things we can do once we have secured #1
We’re on phase 1 just yet. You want phase 2.
I prefer to call it democracy with American characteristics.
So just genocide as usual and “nothing will fundamentally change” like Biden.
Democracy is when you can decide what your country does right? Like while the government is currently in power and stuff?
Always making excuses instead of holding politicians accountable means nothing will get done. She was already part of the Biden regime so she is party to the genocide.
Eh, she’s Vice-President. That barely means anything. Her office didn’t even know Biden was planning on dropping out. So far her only job is to break ties and tell immigrants not to come into the country. I won’t judge her on this genocide until she’s President (which hopefully she will be).
She’s a part of the administration. She could have spoken out but chose not to and you are just going to give her a pass which means you support genocide. 👍
Oh of course, those pesky genocides are gonna have to wait until we are able to spend 3 days in january, at most, putting down another coup. You understand that genocide is more important than whether your team wins an election, right?
Of course it is a .ml user pretending Repubs don’t want more genocide in more places.
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She was part of the Biden regime so she is guilty of genocide just like Joe.
Have you considered blaming the people committing genocide? Of course not, because you don’t actually give a shit about genocide, it’s all just a bad faith attack point.
You mean Israel which is funded and equipped with American weapons? Yes, that’s where I’m coming from. Try again
I know the UN is not NATO but an attack on an arm of the UN should be an attack on all.
It’s past time the world started treating Israel like they treat Russia.
Damn, feeding the hungry and taking care of the deprived is now an act of terrorism.
Food Not Bombs knows that isn’t new, sadly.
Food not Bombs
It’s all a simple misunderstanding really. You see the Israelis read from right to left.
Nice
Israel is the most fascist state in existence. Israel is The Fifth Reich.
What was the Fourth Reich?
A Reichtangle, obviously.
This is left as an exercise for the reader.
Let’s please remember Turkey, Azerbaijan, China, Pakistan and, ahem, all big European nations
It’s like they’re trying to get ahead of the narrative to deceive future historians… I just hope someone with the knowledge and means is making physical records of all this. Written in silica, or something.
Ironic isn’t? The victims of fascism are now the fascists.
Israel was never a victim of fascism.
Israel looking at Nazi Germany and saying “well…I mean it did work on us so…”
bunch of clowns.
Damn, didn’t know having human decency meant now you’re a crooked, spineless, evil cretin.
Aristofascists called Biden crooked and evil for yeeeears, and he’s done some mighty decent things while in office.
For those curious about the allegations against about 10% on UNRWA.
No one but genocide loving zionists wants to hear the lying screeds of a genocidal, racist, apartheid regime. I care as much to read that as a copy of the latest “Jewish crimes” written by Nazi magazines in the 1930s.
That’s some really strong statements. Speaking for myself I don’t identify as a genocide loving Zionist.
For what it’s worth the article is really dry and cites independent sources, and has quotes from UN officials that say that UNRWA workers were removed. A full internal investigation will take place.
This is how statecraft works. Have you ever wondered why there’s no Pride parades on Palestine but there are in Tel Aviv?
Let me ask you using your own rhetoric: “Have you wondered why there is no food in Gaza but there is in Tel Aviv?”. Real mystery!
The aid comes through Egypt, ask the Egyptians and whatever arm of Hamas steals it and resells it to normal Palestinians?
A lot of aid was found in the tunnels Hamas forced children to construct instead of hospitals and schools and whatnot.
Netanyahu isn’t the answer either, but labelling an entire people as genocidal colonisers is a stretch. Also Sephardic Jews exist.
Last time I checked all the entry points to Gaza were controlled by IDF, so perhaps you should change your narrative. And how many entry points did they open. The reality is that Israel can do everything to alleviate the humanitarian situation in Gaza, by opening enough border crossings, and ensuring that sufficient humanitarian aid is entering the enclave but they consciously decided not to. So stop shifting the blame.
Perhaps you could also try to justify the humanitarian aid looting, stealing, destroying by Israeli people, or the many humanitarian aid workers who lost their lives during this war, etc.
So the IDF controls the border between Gaza and Egypt? You should let Egypt know their border isn’t sovereign anymore.
Yes they do. Even if they didn’t that excuses nothing about what Israel is doing.
And I guess by your Zionist logic no country has any sovereignty if anybody but themselves controls both sides of the border, which checks out since that’s also how Israel seems to think borders work.
Oh ya, I’m sure Israel cares a lot about Palestinian hospitals and schools 🙄
How many of those are left now after Israel has bombed them all?
Which ones, the ones Hamas were using as staging/headquarters areas, or the weapons depots Hamas placed near schools and hospitals that blew up?
There’s no winners in war, but please stop pretending that Hamas is a rational actor in this conflict.
One, that doesn’t excuse blowing up schools and hospitals, even if it was true. It makes them way worse than Hamas in every single way. Israel bombing schools, hospitals, and relief agencies isn’t some sort of own when Gaza has been left with no running medical system and Israel is still doing war crimes and a genocide. If I was the President, I wouldn’t sign off in bombing your neighborhood if a relative of yours did a crime, but then I’m not a genocidal maniac. If I was held hostage and someone blew me up, I’d be way more mad at them than the hostage taker. It’s just common sense.
Two, none of that that IDF propaganda has been proven to be true for the places they’ve blown up in the latest conflict. They stage little photo ops but none of it that I can find has been independently verified, and often it comes out laughably untrue, ruining their credibility further.
Three, it’s not a war, it’s an apartheid ethnostate occupying territory, doing ethnic cleansing, taking land, and trying to oppress and kill all the indigenous people through genocide over 70 years; and people trying to resist that. Some of those people are terrible, but that’s still what it is. The colonizers are the aggressors, the cause of this, any way you slice it.
"When granaries are full, people know etiquette; when they are well-fed and clothed, they understand honor and shame. " People on the brink of starvation do not ponder philosophy. UNRWA does not cultivate Hamas, but Israel’s attacks on Palestinians, killing their relatives, and making them hungry and homeless, are the soil that breeds Hamas. I believe that Zionism will become even more frenzied. According to the 1967 two-state solution, Israel should withdraw from Jerusalem, and if the CPC commits to it, they will never go back on their word.
And it looks like actions were taken by the UNRWA against involved employees. But Israel wants the total destruction of the agency just like Palestine.
For the most part Israel regarded the UNRWA as a problematic but ultimately stabilizing influence. Israel started taking umbrage when members of the UNRWA participated in and associated with the Hamas terrorists that raped, murdered, kidnapped men, women and children of many nations and faiths.
So there’s that?
