The recent revelation that the semi-autonomous UN Palestinian aid group, UNRWA or the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, had some of it’s employees involved in the mindless 7th October attack by Hamas should come as no surprise.
There had been anecdotes and rumours previously about some UNRWA employees harbouring hostages, widely disseminated but now in the realm of the factual.
This serious, but believable and unfortunate activity is evidenced by the USA pausing their aid to that decimated Palestinian quasi-country.
Other donor countries have followed and they may expand their aid pause, and support for the UN, if urgent action is not taken such as replacement of that failed UN institution with an independent body.
The big question , yet unanswered, is who in the UN knew and which heads will roll. The world zenith of bureaucracy must have a significant paper trail of emails and such, just waiting for disclosure to an inquiry. The tenacious silk, Jason Beer, would be a perfect secondment from the UK Post Office Scandal inquiry.
Public and international trust has been betrayed.
UNRWA Commissioner-General Phillipe Lazzarini must resign, immediately, if any more aid is to flow to Gaza.
Philippe Lazzarini
Past performance is no barrier when there has been a failure of leadership. The people of Gaza should not be sacrificed for the bureaucratic bumbling of UNRWA and the hidden agents of Hamas.
The UN International Court of Justice, having passed judgment on Israeli activities in Gaza, cannot review the conduct of UNRWA. That would be like the UN investigating itself or Russia investigating the recent shoot down of their military transport plane in Belgorod.
The only independent course of action lies with the fearless Karim A. A. Khan and the International Criminal Court. He will find the truth, he always does.
Israel are unlikely to bring complaint as they settle scores the old school way. Ask Saleh Al-Arouri. The new now is no rules, ask Putin or the Hamas workers in UNRWA.
South Africa, beset by the capture of state assets, electricity grid failures, mass unemployment among the youth and social discontent, will bring no complaint unless they receive orders from their new post apartheid masters.
The African Caesar, Ramaphosa, is also too busy trying to recoup the hundreds of thousands of dollars stolen from his Phala Phala farm.
Protests on both side of the wall dividing Israel and Gaza are undermined by the deep depravity of Hamas military activity that has included UN institutions, schools, day care centres and hospitals.
Perhaps Netanyahu is right, in effect, to the end, unless…
A review of videos from the wicked Hamas attack on Israel does not disclose a precise military operation but a free for all to include electronic goods that were seized for a return trip to Gaza.
A man on crutches was even seen to enter a breach in the Israeli wall. Desperation giving way to land pirates, the least of their barbaric behaviour.
The demand for return of the Hamas hostages, or the Israeli Constant, creeps by inches towards a possible resolution.
Israel should not be entirely unflinching as there are signs that the most wanted Hamas leader may be killed by his own people or bodyguards.
It was not unknown in the past Colombian civil war conflict, slowly drawing to a close, for those closest to FARC commanders to kill them and claim a reward.
The power of recent videos include the display of the luxurious residences of many Hamas leaders that have Hamas operatives begging the question: “where is my crib?”
Gaza has become a reprise of the famous Peckinpah movie, Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia.
So much has come to depend on the death of Yahya Sinwar or Palestinian death 25,001.
The Palestinians are not only to be killed but starved for their choice in leadership.
If there is a single manly man left in Gaza, let there be an assassination, suicide or surrender to end the bloodshed, or maybe like Russia, Iran, North Korea, Cuba or Nicaragua, there are no brave men left, only sheep.
Clearly the UN cannot be relied on for anything other than platitudes and maladministration.
In the great confusion that is today, one EU official in the hand is worth ten UN officials in the bush.
Main image: By Kobi Gideon / Government Press Office of Israel, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=138951207
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Recent Articles by Peter Polack on EUToday:
UK Post Office scandal: when innocence is no defence, writes Peter Polack – https://eutoday.net
The Iranian Whac-A-Moles: Houthis, Hezbollah and Hamas, by Peter Polack – https://eutoday.net
EU: The Iron Wall, by Peter Polack – https://eutoday.net
Innocence is no Defence – Gaza and others, by Peter Polack – https://eutoday.net
Peter Polack is the author of The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017)and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2018).He was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013) and his latest book entitled Soviet Spies Worldwide: Country by Country, 1940–1988 will be published by McFarland in 2024.
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