Israel’s parliament has passed legislation targeting the main UN agency providing aid to people in Gaza.
The new laws designate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) a terrorist organisation, cutting diplomatic ties with the agency and barring it from operating on Israeli soil.
Two bills passed in the Knesset prohibit ties between Israeli officials and the agency, and strip its staff of their legal immunities.
This is not surprising, considering the many UNRWA staff who have also been terrorists. But it goes well beyond that. UNRWA has allowed their schools to be used to teach hatred. They are part of the problem, not the solution. For example UNRWA will not teach the Holocaust in their schools, as it will upset Hamas who insist the Holocaust is a fiction invented by Zionists.
The vote passed 92-10 and followed a fiery debate between supporters of the law and its opponents, mostly members of Arab parliamentary parties.
The Government only has 68 MPs, so at least 24 opposition MPs voted to ban UNRWA also.
UNRWA commissioner-general Philippe Lazzarini said the move set a “dangerous new precedent”.
“It will deprive over 650,000 girls and boys there from education, putting at risk an entire generation of children.”
Not having them taught in UNRWA schools will probably be a good thing. There are in fact over 3,000 schools in Palestine, and only 15% are run by UNRWA. Children in UNRWA schools will be able to access other schools.
There are also other aid agencies that do or can operate in the Palestinian Territories. With UNRWA being banned, we should cease funding them, and instead donate what we used to give to UNRWA to other aid agencies that operate there. I’m absolutely in favour of NZ Government funding aid agencies to help Palestinian families., I’m just not in favour of doing it through UNRWA.
David Farrar runs Curia Market Research, a specialist opinion polling and research agency, and the popular Kiwiblog where this article was sourced. He previously worked in the Parliament for eight years, serving two National Party Prime Ministers and three Opposition Leaders.
9 comments:
What more is there to say at this point? Jewish Zionists calling people terrorists and accusing them of being hateful is hypocrisy and chutzpah on steroids.
Imagine calling anyone who stands in your way a hater and a terrorist and thus deserving of anything you deem desirable to inflict on them. You'd never be guilty of anything in your own eyes and in the eyes of the idiots you convince of your moral impeachability.
Mr Anonymous, the Jews never committed the atrocities committed against on 7 Oct. Zionists believe Israel has the right to exist - do you?
So if Israel demands that Helen Clarke be extradited as the leader of a terrorist organisation......
Islam has created the crisis in Gaza, in the same way that Islam has been responsible for every single attack on Israel since the end of the Mandate. But Islam is supposed to be big on charity, so where is the rush of humanitarian aid from the big spending Arab States? They seem quite happy to sponsor golf, motor racing, yacht races to say nothing of Peace Conferences, but are happy to leave it to the West to organise and pay for relief efforts for the victims of Islam's never-ending Jihad - against the West of course. Islam is very good at playing the victim, but history shows they have been the real aggressors since the seventh century. Ironic that in recent years Islam has discovered an unwitting accomplice in the United Nations who seem quite comfortable with their aid efforts being plundered at will by HAMAS. So it's hardly surprising Israel has put a stop to that at last.
No, I certainly don't believe that Israel has the right to exist. At what cost is this "right" to be exercised? Look at how much pain, suffering and death Israelis have visited on the Arab inhabitants of those lands, all because of the Jewish arrogance that allows them to treat gentiles like garbage and never lose any sleep over their behaviour. In fact, they blame everyone else for their behaviour.
A year ago, Hamas soldiers broke out of the open-air prison they were trapped in. Israel knew about a planned attack and had a detailed plan a year in advance. A group of female IDF intelligence soldiers had been pounding the table for months about a pending attack and were ignored. Hamas broke out. And everything we know and have been told ever since has been a lie.
We know the IDF embraced the Hannibal Directive that day and destroyed over 1,000 vehicles fleeing the scene. We know there were tanks firing on civilian Jewish homes with hostages inside. We know there were many helicopter gunship attacks. We don’t know exactly how many innocent Jews died at the bloodstained hands of the IDF but it’s entirely possible that the majority of the 789 innocent civilians died from the IDF, not Hamas.
According to international law, Hamas had all the right in the world to escape their prison. They had the right under the Geneva Convention to conduct warfare against their captors. Since Israel feels an unlimited right to hold hostages, Hamas thought taking hostages was a great idea to exchange for the thousands held illegally by Israel. Hamas wasn’t in the murder business as Israel is every day, they were in the hostage business. They were no better off by murdering innocent people.
We were never told that Hamas as the legally elected government of Gaza had an absolute right of self-defense under the Geneva Convention. We are never told that in fact the ICC determined ten years ago that as an occupying power Israel does not have a right of self-defense.
Hamas was founded by Israel to offset the influence of the PA. As recently as 2019 Netanyahu told the Knesset to support Hamas as a way of thwarting the two-state solution. Hamas is and was the democratically elected government of Gaza. Israel claims to be the only democratically elected country in the Middle East but like everything else they say, they lied.
But of course, none of this is ever mentioned in the totally controlled media, and you cannot speculate as to what group controls the media lest you be accused of being an antisemite.
Inflammatory comments like those made by Anonymous 7.22 seek credibility by tossing in some part-truths like HAMAS being the elected Government of Gaza while ignoring the reality that there is nothing remotely democratic about HAMAS.
1. Gaza is not, and never was a country in its own right.
2. The election in question was the 2007 election for a National Unity Government of the Palestinian Authority comprising member of both HAMAS and Fatah.
3. A few months later HAMAS seized full control in Gaza in a military coup and have never held an election since.
And the assertion that Israel created HAMAS would be laughable if it wasn't so sad. HAMAS was a creation of the Muslim Brotherhood and bankrolled by Iran in furtherance of the age-old Islamic dogma that all Jews must be converted, subjugated or killed. Not a lot of motivation for Israeli support there.
As for the "Hannibal Directive", a policy to avoid the taking of hostages for political advantage, it is pure speculation whether or not this was still in force on October 7 but one thing is certain, the subsequent treatment of the hostages by HAMAS show the cruel but necessary logic behind it. But it is only a distraction in the context of October 7 and culpability for ALL deaths can be readily attributed solely to the actions of HAMAS. If they hadn't crossed the wire, a lot of people on both sides would not be dead today.
Israel, founded on terrorism, determinedly expanding through terrorism (after 70-odd years, STILL into dirty tricks like poisoning the water supply for Palestinian farms and villages), calling organisation terrorist is in the realm of pot calling kettle black. However no reason to believe that terrorism is UNWRA's raison d'etre
Barbara, do you believe that the atrocities by Hamas on 7 October was justified.
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