[…] "I think that a large number of those countries who suspended are (having) second thoughts," Barth Eide told Reuters in an interview, citing the recognition from these nations that "they cannot punish the whole Palestinian society".
[…] "But then, of course, they need an honourable way out, which means they are hoping, I think - without speaking for individual countries - that they will get something from these investigations that suggest that they can say: "well, we needed to suspend, but now we're back'."
#UNRWA / Report says Israel coerced some agency employees to falsely admit Hamas links; Canada and Sweden resume aid payments
"Agency staff members have been subject to threats and coercion by the Israeli authorities while in detention, and pressured to make false statements against the Agency, including that the Agency has affiliations with Hamas and that UNRWA staff members took part in the 7 October 2023 atrocities,” the report says.
@escarpment I think you should concentrate of the torture allegations against the IDF. UNRWA is accountable to ALL UN members. IDF IS NOT.
So far all IDF’s lies, one lie after another,were exposed.
Why would anyone even consider anything they claim is beyond me. Israel is trying very hard to legitimize a massacre by making false claims and spreading disinformation.
@oatmeal@palestine@israel UNRWA is a Palestinian political action group masquerading as a neutral international organization. Their corruption has been well documented for years. The US is the UNRWA's largest benefactor year in and year out, and where does all the money go? They never resettle any refugees and Palestinians are just as impoverished. One can only assume the money is diverted to wealthy European bureaucrats and Hamas's military budget.
@escarpment@oatmeal@palestine@israel what is it about #israel lies? You all make such large amount fanciful, rudimentary, and farcical statements left and right, none of your statements has any credibility left.
So go ahead spewing word salad, understand nobody believes you one bit.
@escarpment Israel != “the Jews” … this shtick is not working anymore, you’re clearly not paying attention … some of Israel’s loudest critics are Israelis or foreign food …
so what was it about Haiti you were in the middle of exploiting … done with that?
Israel is in fact largely populated by Jewish people (over 7 million). So when you call Israelis liars, you are calling many Jewish people liars.
Yes, Haiti is in the midst of a violent humanitarian crisis that is the direct result of colonialism and few in the west even pretend to care in the same way they pretend to care about Gaza.
@oatmeal Precisely. If you cared about one, you'd care about the other. So why aren't your posts split more equitably between French colonialism in Haiti and Israeli "colonialism" in Gaza?
@escarpment why would I attempt to do that? To make you feel better about the genocide in Palestine? Read my introduction: History of the Middle East. Also, you can remove the the quotation marks from #colonialism they’re really not necessary.
@escarpment I expect you to go and mind your own business or you’d be blocked … for someone who’s business is dissenting, you’ve dissented enough here, without contributing anything of value so far …
@ecpoir@oatmeal@palestine@israel So do you care about Haiti or not? Is the suffering in Haiti worth your time or not? Pretty callous to dismiss the suffering in Haiti as merely whataboutism.
@oatmeal@palestine@israel "Norway, which has continued to finance the agency, said on March 6 that many countries that paused their funding are likely having second thoughts and payments could resume soon."
Oftentimes I regret that stupidity in office is not a hanging offence.
@martinvermeer yes. Mentioned above. Israel knows how to use dissinformation effectively. This time though it seems that many countries are realizing they’ve been duped and are complicit in Israel’s war crimes.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide, Guest Essay for The New York Times
[…] Nearly six million Palestinians did not choose to live their lives as refugees. I am convinced that they, like the rest of us, would prefer a life in a country they could call their own. The question of the fate of Palestinian refugees is at the heart of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, yet 75 years later a political solution remains elusive. A fair and just resolution will be an essential prerequisite for peace and the two-state solution, for Israel as much as for the Palestinians.
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