Celebrate! United Nations celebrates 65 years of Hamas' arms supplier (with video)
As you might recall, last summer UNRWA - the agency that is supposed to resettle 'Palestinian refugees' and instead has perpetuated their 'refugee status' for the last 65 years - was caught hidingdiscoveredrocketshidden in its schools in Gaza, and explosives booby-trapped into those schools' walls. On Tuesday, a high-level United Nations meeting celebrated all that UNRWA has done for 'Palestinian refugees' (Hat Tip: Bad Blue).
On June 2, 2015, the UN held a full-day high-level conference honoring
the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA) on its 65th anniversary. UNRWA Commissioner General
Pierre Krähenbühl used the occasion to commend himself for UNRWA's
performance under his leadership. He made no mention of the findings of
the UN Secretary General's own Board of Inquiry that UNRWA failed to
secure weapons in their schools and even gave weapons back to Hamas -
thereby facilitating the commission of war crimes.
The meeting consisted of a day of hate speech and blood libels directed at the UN member state of Israel.
Indeed it did. Here are some of the highlights. Let's go to the videotape.
And if you're an American taxpayer, you paid for at least 22% of this celebration. So why isn't anyone speaking out against this?
New details have emerged about the booby-trapped clinic explosion that killed three IDF Maglan unit soldiers in Gaza earlier this week - Sergeant
First Class Matan Gottlieb, 21, from Rishon LeZion; Sergeant First
Class Omar Chai, 21, from Savion; and Sergeant First Class Guy Algranati, 20, of Tel Aviv, hy"d.
Over eighty kilograms of explosives were built into the UN-funded
hospital's walls themselves, it was cleared for publication Thursday -
revealing that the clinic itself was built to mask, and perform,
potential acts of terror on the IDF.
Moreover, the clinic was built over tens of terror tunnels, according to the report.
How could Hamas have gotten rockets into an UNRWA school and explosives into a health clinic without the people in charge knowing? They couldn't.
Someone 'discovered' today that Hamas controls the UNRWA employee union. That's been true since 2009. It's therefore not surprising that Hamas is allowed to do whatever it wants with UNRWA facilities.
But for some reason, no one outside of Israel (or at least no one in the media) seems to get that.
In the newly won districts around this southern city, American forces are encountering empty homes and farm buildings left so heavily booby-trapped by Taliban insurgents that the Americans have been systematically destroying hundreds of them, according to local Afghan authorities.
The campaign, a major departure from NATO practice in past military operations, is intended to reduce civilian and military casualties by removing the threat of booby traps and denying Taliban insurgents hiding places and fighting positions, American military officials said.
While it has widespread support among Afghan officials and even some residents, and has been accompanied by an equally determined effort to hand out cash compensation to homeowners, other local people have complained that the demolitions have gone far beyond what is necessary.
If you read the whole thing, you'll get the impression that no one cares too much outside of Afghanistan. Just like when Israel did the same thing in Jenin and Gaza City, right?
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