Nine UNRWA staff may have been involved in Oct. 7 attack on Israel, says UN (www.reuters.com)

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[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

🇺🇳 The UN has a right to defend itself.

[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

(The UN does not, in fact, have a 'right to defend itself', nor to slaughter Jews in brutal pogroms, nor to teach generations of children that the greatest thing they can do with their lives is detonate a suicide vest in a crowd of Jewish civilians using the money of the international community)

[-] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Yes they do

[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

Have you read the article?

You mean the plan accepted by the Jews and rejected by the Arabs, right before they launched a war which in the words of Haj Amin al-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and close friend of Adolf Hitler, they would "continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated" and, in the words of one of the most senior leaders of Jerusalem, Jamal al-Husayni, that "the blood will flow like rivers in the Middle East"?

That's the war you're referring to re: "The UN's right to defend itself"?

Because of course, it could have done at the time, and defended itself against the side that rejected the UN plan: the Arabs. And it didn't.

So what's your point here, if not spreading Jew-hatred?

[-] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

from the article:

Israel stepped up its accusations in March, saying over 450 UNRWA staff were military operatives in Gaza terrorist groups. UNRWA employs 32,000 people across its area of operations, 13,000 of them in Gaza.

so according to the UN israel was off by a factor of 50, which would make UNRWA 9/13000 = 0.07% of a terrorist organization. since you seem like a zionist, if this is somehow gonna convince me to support israel's bullshit claims about aid workers in gaza, lmao. lol even.

[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Per the article, they didn't investigate all 350, the UN only investigated 19. Not really interested in that argument, though.

What do you mean when you say 'Zionist' about me? Specifically, what do you mean by that word?

[-] daniyeg@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

they did a investigation which discovered findings related to 19 people, one of whom was dismissed and the other 9 were deemed insufficient. it doesn't mean they only investigated 19 people and found 9, it means out of all the allegations only 19 could even be reasonably investigated, and they decided to terminate 9 people.

and by Zionist i meant a supporter of state of Israel (which you seem highly engaged in covering for them) regardless of ideology and politics. this is the most common use of the word by self identified (most of whom are evangelical christians and are zionists for very anti-semetic reasons) and the general public. stop baiting people into the gotcha "anti-semetic" debate bullshit you disingenuous fuck.

I won't respond to anything you say because new account posting lie after lie doesn't seem genuine, so go nuts in the replies.

[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

What do you think 'Zionist' means?

[-] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

UNWRA said in March that some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Cool. Now what proportion of Israeli NGO workers were somehow, someway involved in the various atrocities that came next?

[-] Streamwave@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 months ago

That makes us even then.

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Both sides!!!!

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