MANY WESTERN NATIONS CUT FUNDING TO UNRWA FOUND OUT WHY!
January 29, 2024Craig Mokhiber expressing concerns over the Israeli allegations against UNRWA, highlighting Israel’s historical opposition to the agency. UNRWA, serving as a lifeline for Palestinians in Gaza, provides essential services, including healthcare and education. Mokhiber emphasized that the accusations originated from Israeli intelligence officials based on interrogations of tortured suspects, raising doubts about their credibility.
The timing of the U.S. decision to cut funding to UNRWA, despite the Commissioner General’s actions, raised concerns about the moral implications of the U.S. government’s Middle East policy.
An independant investigation is needed urgently.
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Craig Mokhiber: Israel has always hated UNRWA because UNRWA represents a lifeline that prevents them from totally destroying civilian life in Gaza. If it weren’t for UNRWA, because of the caged reality of Palestinians, the permanent refugee status of Palestinians in Palestine, Palestinians wouldn’t have the health care and the education and housing and the humanitarian assistance and other things that they needed. So that’s a threat to Israel’s ethno-nationalist plan for the Occupied Territories. And so, they have for years worked to try to attack and discredit, and they’ve made false charges for years. Now, in this case, I don’t know if any of these you know, there are thousands of UN employees in Gaza because it’s the main employer in Gaza, and it includes people who are teachers and doctors and engineers and janitors and drivers and all sorts of people among those thousand. So, it’s not impossible that some of them when the escape happened from the cage, that some of them escaped as well in that. And I saw today from the UN spokesperson that they actually fired these people. But the way they describe it is like firing them and they’re investigating. Well, it seems to be able to investigate and then fire them.
So, I don’t know if they got some confirmation. But what concerns me about this is that the accusations came from Shin Bet and other Israeli intelligence officials based upon interrogation of suspects that they were holding. In other words, people who were tortured said that these UNRWA people were also participating on October 7th. So, it’s possible, but I am not going to be convinced until I see an independent investigation into this question because of the source, because of previous false accusations.
And even if some of them did, that’s not an indictment of UNRWA. I mean, you take any organization with thousands of employees, some of them are going to commit some crimes. That’s just the nature of the nature of the beast. That said, here’s the worst part The population of Gaza have been battered and brutalized and had a genocide perpetrated on them. They’ve had their homes and their entire infrastructure destroyed, they’re starving, they’re dying of disease. The survivors will rely upon a well-functioning UNRWA. That’s going to be the difference between life and death today and for many, many days and weeks and months going forward.
The United States of America chose at this moment to cut off funding to UNRWA, in spite of the fact that the Commissioner General fired all of these people. The US wants to participate in causing the Palestinian people of Gaza to suffer so that it can satisfy its Israeli partners that it is being as vicious and malicious as they are inside of Gaza. I think that’s an absolutely horrific statement about the moral depravity of our own government in its Middle East policy. Wait for the investigation. Except that some people have been fired. But why would you cut off funding to UNRWA? What is the motivation for this if not to assist Israel.
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