Now the U.S. is being sued in D.C. Dictrict Court by Israeli victims of terrorism for funding UNRWA -- which obviously is an organization which funded and assisted terrorist organizations. The demand is to cease all funding of UNRWA. Obviously using U.S. taxpayer dollars to fund organizations which support & promote terrorism is inappropriate and most likely illegal. US accused of funding UNRWA while terror ties known, complaint charges “The writing was on the wall about UNRWA 50 years ago," Attorney Robert Tolchin, who is representing the plaintiffs stated. https://www.jpost.com/israel-hamas-war/article-790017 Over 8,000 Israeli citizens have filed a complaint in the DC District Court, claiming that the State Department violated anti-terrorism laws by providing billions of US tax dollars to the United Nations Relief and Work Agency For Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). The plaintiffs “demand a complete cessation of all funding to UNRWA in contravention of law.” The plaintiffs are represented by attorneys Robert J. Tolchin in Brooklyn and Nitsana Darshan-Leitner in Tel Aviv, founder of the Shurat HaDin Law Center, an Israeli human rights organization dedicated to combating terrorism and anti-Israel activities, according to its website. The defendants include US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is responsible for coordinating all US federal aid to UNRWA, among other US government employees who share the responsibilities. Among the plaintiffs is Marice Shnaider, whose sister and her husband were murdered in the Hamas attack on Kibbutz Nir Oz on October 7. His niece, Shiri Bibas, and her husband Yarden Bibas were taken hostage by Hamas with their two sons, Kfir, nine-months-old at the time, and Ariel, four-years-old at the time. He said: “The blood of my sister and her husband and the fate of an entire family being held hostage for more than four months is in the hands of the administration that pours millions of taxpayer dollars into the purse of Hamas. Why did they not stop this before? Why did they continue to pay them after it was revealed that a UNRWA teacher held hostages in his home? What else must happen for them to come to their senses? It’s enough!” Accusations against UNRWA The US is UNRWA’s primary donor, with $4 billion in tax dollars given to the organization over the years. US support for UNRWA reached $422 million in 2023 alone. Israel accused at least 12 of UNRWA’s direct employees of participating in the Hamas-led attack, revealing as well that some of the hostages were held by UNRWA employees in their homes in Gaza. Additionally, as uncovered by IDF operations in Gaza, UNRWA facilities have been used by Hamas. Since the reports came to light, the US and other donor countries temporarily suspended funding of UNRWA “pending an investigation by the United Nations.” The complaint reads: “UNRWA is not an impartial, non-governmental agency with the motive of simply providing humanitarian aid and relief to purported Palestinian civilians. Instead, UNRWA has become an instrumentality and agency of Hamas that employs terrorist members and individuals supportive of Hamas and other designated terrorist organizations whose mission is to eradicate Israel and kill innocent civilians. UNRWA staff has committed murder, rapes, and injury, with the financing being footed by the United States and other Western donor countries.” It notes the US’s ignoring of this information, saying the administration “permitted millions of dollars to flow to UNRWA despite it being publicly known that such funding is diverted to terrorism and UNRWA employees are complicit” and thus, “United States’ support of terrorism that murders and maims American citizens must cease once and for all.” Tolchin analogized the deterioration of UNRWA to what happens when cities defer maintenance on their bridges, “eventually, there are catastrophic problems. The writing was on the wall about UNRWA 50 years ago, which is why back in the 1960’s Congress prohibited US funding of UNRWA unless UNRWA affirmatively prevented any of its benefits from going to what was then referred to as ‘guerilla fighters.’ Unfortunately, for years, US administrations have looked the other way and funded it, even though it was widely known that UNRWA in Gaza had become infested by Hamas. It is time for the US administration to take the blinders off, stop with the wishful, magical thinking that UNRWA tomorrow is going to be any different than UNRWA for decades past. It is time for a new paradigm.”
not even you believe those claims: let alone our intelligence: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/yawn-israel-attacked-by-hamas.376532/page-191#post-5933743
It's obvious to me. USA is a puppet to Israel and 100% complicit in war crimes. Austins replies: "eerrrrr, ummmm, aaaahhhh, aaaahhhh, ummmm...., not my decision...."
they're not a "puppet", there's just no room for dissent when the commander in chief is calling himself a zionist & saying Israel has his full support. Austin could be principled and disagree w/the WH but understands he'd need to tender his resignation in doing so. I personally think he should but I don't care to consider the breakdown in the chain of command (it'd be not just a political but military insubordination in his case, imo). I'm disappointed since he had been one of the earliest and "harshest" critics of the Israeli offensive. After all, nazis didn't get a pass because "just following orders". Easy to armchair quarterback I suppose since his replacement could be worse and I dunno of Adams efforts to moderate the offensive or push aid through behind the scenes.
So the U.N. finally found the obvious. The U.N. found grounds to believe that Israeli women were sexually assaulted in several locations during the Hamas-led attack on Oct. 7th. https://www.nytimes.com/live/2024/03/04/world/israel-hamas-war-gaza-news
The UNRWA trying to deflect that numerous employees of the organization in Gaza were directly involved in the October 7th attack is absurd. In fact the UNRWA fired the dozen employees directly named in the original briefing. How can we be sure this particular dozen employees were directly involved in the terrorist attack on October 7th? Well, all one dozen were on Hamas videos posted online actively bragging about their role in the attack in videos which were taped inside Israel on October 7th. Along with their cell phones being geo-located in Israel at the time. It is likely that well more than 100 UNRWA employees were directly involved in the October 7th terrorist attack. Now Israel has released audio of other UNRWA employees as additional evidence of further perpetrators of this terrorism. IDF Releases Audio Clips It Says Further Connect Unrwa to October 7 Massacre ‘We have female hostages. I captured one,’ an Unrwa employee says in the clip, according to the IDF. https://www.nysun.com/article/idf-r...s-further-connect-unrwa-to-october-7-massacre It is absurd that UNRWA is still deflecting and pushing fabricated narratives. The proof is in the own video and audio of UNRWA employees from October 7th who were directly involved in the October 7th terrorist attack coupled with geo-locating of their cell phones. Claims about false confessions are laughable at this point. UN agency accuses Israel of detaining, coercing staffers into false confessions about ties to Hamas https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/04/middleeast/un-israel-confessions-allegations-intl?cid=ios_app