Thursday, November 28, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
UN Watch has revealed that UNRWA’s previous head Pierre Krahenbuhl met repeatedly with leaders of Palestinian terrorist organizations, including one meeting where he called for their covert partnership and unity. The practice has continued under UNRWA’s current commissioner Philippe Lazzarini.At a gathering in Beirut in February 2017, Krahenbuhl met with the Hamas chief of foreign relations, Ali Baraka, who was recently indicted by the U.S. government for “heinous crimes.” Baraka managed Hamas ties with Tehran and other regimes including Syria and Iraq. Days after the Hamas massacre of October 7th, Baraka claimed that the group had been planning the attack for two years, and he revealed the existence since 2021 of a Palestinian Joint Operations Room among the various factions. “We made them think that Hamas was busy with governing Gaza, and that it wanted to focus on the 2.5 million Palestinians there, and has abandoned the resistance altogether. All the while, under the table, Hamas was preparing for this big attack,” said Baraka.The head of UNRWA at the same gathering also met with Abu Imad al-Rifai, the leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, who boasted about sending a wave of suicide bombers to Baghdad in 2003 to kill American and British troops.At the meeting, UNRWA’s Krahenbuhl emphasized the “spirit of partnership” between the terrorist groups and UNRWA. He invited them to privately challenge any UNRWA decision, which he could then change or “tear up,” while also urging that their “discussions not be made public.”If their meetings were to be publicized, said Krahenbuhl, who now heads the International Red Cross, that “could challenge our credibility” — and “lead to a loss of trust between donor countries and UNRWA, which might result in reduced or even terminated funding.”In the discussions with the terror chiefs, Krahenbuhl acknowledged that UNRWA’s role was not primarily about aid distribution. “We will not abandon the role entrusted to us, to be the historical witness to the injustice that has befallen the Palestinian people,” he said.
This is as damning as can be. It proves that UNRWA cooperates with terror groups, and it tries to hide it. It proves that UNRWA's main mission is not to aid Palestinian "refugees" but to "be the historical witness" by perpetuating the fake refugee problem.
This comes on top of evidence that UNRWA schools were run by Hamas leaders, and students are being taught to hate and attack Israel. And UNRWA employees are stealing aid meant for Gazans - according to Gazans themselves.
UNRWA cannot argue about these facts. So it responds by calling it "disinformation."
From Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA Commissioner-General:
The spread of disinformation against UNRWA is meant to create chaos & divert attention from the political aims to dismantle the Agency.It is distraction from what really matters: The devastating impact the war in Gaza & the region is having on civilians & the work that our UNRWA teams continue to do to save lives.The spread of false information continues unabated causing harm to Palestine Refugees by undermining the only UN agency dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance, education + primary health care to one of the most vulnerable communities in the region.UNRWA is the international community’s instrument put in place to address the plight of Palestine refugees in the absence of an alternative & until a just political solution is found.Most importantly, this dis-information campaign is putting the lives of my colleagues in the occupied Palestinian territory including Gaza at further risk.Before you share, double check the source & question the intent. Ask, why is this information out there?Avoid becoming an echo for disinformation & de facto of fueling hate.It’s more harmful than you think.
What, exactly is the disinformation and false information? Has Lazzarini denied the transcript of his predecessor cozying up to terrorist leaders? Has UNRWA denied that Hamas leaders were also school principals? Has UNRWA brought any proof that UN Watch is lying?
Of course not. Because they can't.
The only distraction happening is UNRWA trying as hard as it can to distract attention from its own complicity in terror.
Arguing that UNRWA provides some services to vulnerable people and therefore shouldn't be touched is like saying that same about Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah, all of which run social service programs. It is like arguing that a surgeon who never went to medical school should not lose his or her license since only 10% of their patients died from their incompetence.
And, no, these revelations are not meant to "divert attention" from political aims to dismantle the agency. They are very clearly meant to dismantle the agency.
It should have been done decades ago.
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