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even as the Biden administration insists the aid group’s humanitarian work is indispensable.
A supplemental funding bill in the U.S. Congress that includes military aid to Israel and Ukraine contains a provision that would block UNRWA from receiving funds if it becomes law. President Joe Biden’s administration supports the bill
Well which one is it? You can’t say in public that their work is indispensable while also supporting a bill specifically blocking funds for their indispensable work while funding the genocide that makes said work so necessary.
I mean, you can, but it makes you lying hypocrite bastards not worthy of public office, much less being the only alternative to literal fascism.
In Gaza, UNRWA runs the enclave’s schools, its primary healthcare clinics and other social services, and distributes humanitarian aid.
So it’s actually even MORE important than “the main aid agency”. That makes the withholding of funding even MORE morally repugnant! Absolutely unconscionable!
UNRWA is a front, plain and simple," Representative Brian Mast, the Republican chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee “It is literally funneling American tax dollars to terrorism”
Gaslight ✅️
Obstruct ❓️
Project ✅️
And of course the article fails to mention that the Israeli government hasn’t produced a shred of evidence to anyone in support of their claims from two months ago. This is just as much aiding and abetting the genocide as the weapons and funding are!
Since when have the US been scared of funding terrorism? We funneled millions to both Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. And that’s just Islamic terrorists. That’s not even touching the terror groups elsewhere in the world we’ve funded and continue to fund.
Or the fact that the GOP itself is led by a stochastic terrorist with many additional domestic terrorists as members.
The U.S., along with more than a dozen countries, suspended its funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in January after Israel accused 12 of the agency’s 13,000 employees in Gaza of participating in the deadly Oct. 7 Hamas attack.
Let’s say this is true- and I am not convinced it is- they’re cutting funding for an entire organization because of the actions of a fraction of one percent of the employees?
It’s not true and the IDF tortured them.
We should be cutting aid to Israel for war crimes, and their treatment of UNRWA employees is a perfect example of why.
I think the truthfulness is definitely in doubt, but that wasn’t really my point because, true or not, it’s punishing a huge organization for 12 people’s supposed actions. Imagine if the U.S. stopped giving to the Red Cross because it turned out 12 Red Cross employees helped facilitate 9/11. It would be ludicrous.
I totally appreciate the point, And I agree with you for what it’s worth.
Imagine if we stop giving aid to Israel just because they tortured and murdered a whole bunch of people? I mean at least that would make sense, right, since it was directed from the top levels of government through the entire official military.
Meanwhile we defund an aid organization because 12 people were suspected (through evidence gained by torture) of some wrongdoing at some point in the past.
The lack of standards for Israel is damning. If ever there was a country that we should have invaded well there it is.
Yes. And it probably is more accurate than we’d like at this point,
