Thank you again for your excellent writing. My question would be… Why do non-western powers not step in financially? UNRWA is still there, they just need funding, right?
And if you dare criticise israel, the new Nazis of the Middle East, you're antisemitic.
I say "so what?". Everyone's antisemitic these days. If you go into Glick's bakery and complain there's not enough lox on your bagel, THAT'S antisemitic. Means nothing anymore, and hasn't done for years.
Me, I'll stick with the anti-israeli mob as these hamulka -clad fascists butcher their way to re-colonizing Gaza. "Antisemitic"? A geurnsey I'm happy to wear.
The Objective is to STARVE Palestinians so that they 'voluntarily leave.' Thus, the 'Israeli' Ethnic Cleansing can be pursued without hiccups (in their mind) & this problem is 'solved.'
However, The Resistance is well aware of all this & will Attrition & Implode 'Israel' long before such things get accomplished by them & their Vile, Bankrupt & Immoral Western Backers.
They ruled that SA’s case is plausible. Very significant, though it would have been great to witness the US, GB and France having to veto an order by the ICJ for an immediate cease fire. Their mask would have been totally off. Well, it kinda is off already of course…
Thank you for your work, Jonathan. There is a growing movement online for concerned individuals to donate directly to UNRWA.
We already know that the bully nations have been using a threat/reward system not just with critical charitable organizations such as UNRWA, but national governments that have refused to kowtow. This is one of the reasons I strongly support the rise of the Global South and BRICS+ activities this year.
What is especially gross about this particular pause of UNRWA funding is the attempt to take away from South Africa's impressive judicial win - and it was a magnificent historical milestone led by South Africa.
The bully nations shifted the news stream from the ICJ ruling, and tried to take away a winner's shining moment. It is a cheap move rooted in envy to steal another’s shine. So, we are pushing for individual donations to UNRWA for those who can do so financially. Also, Francis Boyle is on a recent panel with Consortium News and he speaks about the judicial win, and the likely next steps. I am quite hopeful with Boyle’s assessment of next steps. 😊
I often feel that way, too. But (as the article itself points out, saying that the ICJ "...could easily widen its investigation to include western states..."), the US, UK and the other imperialist states are full partners with Israel, which never could have committed its many crimes without those states' constant backing. In particular, the US is *also* a criminal, murderous colonial state. When the US supports Israel, what it's really doing is supporting itself & its system for global control, in which Israel functions as the US's key regional lieutenant in charge of the M.E.
Should we also conclude that the US "must be destroyed?" I'm not entirely comfortable with that way of putting it (partly, perhaps, because I live here!) but at the very least, the US is in desperate need of a thoroughgoing "reboot," essentially a "revolution." Our entire political system is rotten to the core and needs to be swept away, and totally reorganized from the ground up. We have to face up to the fact that the US is "the" basic problem in today's world; that if the US isn't fixed, nothing can be fixed.
You are entirely correct, Richard: if the US isn't fixed, nothing can be fixed. And the US is unfixable. It is worse, on a larger scale, than Nazi Zionist Israel, and it, too, needs to be destroyed in its imperial form.
13,000 UNRWA members, 12 ''so-called rotten apples, so throw the remaining 12,988 good apples overboard as an excuse to further Israel's quest to insure that the Palestinians go the way of the ''DODO'' bird. Carl
When I looked at what is United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency recently, I was curious why it was specifically for care of Palestinian's, I initially hoped that was because they where rightly been given special care, but thanks to your illuminating article we see that it was in fact apartheid Israel, that way back bullied United Nations into seperating or indeed apartheiding Palestinians also from the United Nation's universal care of refugees, because it would of put Israel's then huge 1948 Nakba massacres & ethnic cleansing of Palestinian peoples on same common human rights & conscience as the same Jewish Holocaust refugees, whom colonial Israel was busy giving the lands that it was stealing from Palestinian refugees.
I am happy to see at least Spain's government is not following USA Western genociders on this, Spain has refused pressure to cut it's vital fundinding to the UNRWA. I hope Ireland where I live will also refuse to side here with this real and explicit act of further genocide against Palestinians.
Every word of your concise article is vital reading and understanding. Cheers Jonathan, I have shared it to my public facebook page for what that's worth.
Are there any references available supporting the statement that Israel did not want the Palestinian refugees to fall under the IRO?
Brilliant and insightful as always, thank you Jonathan.
Excellent
Thank you again for your excellent writing. My question would be… Why do non-western powers not step in financially? UNRWA is still there, they just need funding, right?
Not talking about Hamas. Or is UNRWA a jihadist organisation now in your opinion?
And if you dare criticise israel, the new Nazis of the Middle East, you're antisemitic.
I say "so what?". Everyone's antisemitic these days. If you go into Glick's bakery and complain there's not enough lox on your bagel, THAT'S antisemitic. Means nothing anymore, and hasn't done for years.
Me, I'll stick with the anti-israeli mob as these hamulka -clad fascists butcher their way to re-colonizing Gaza. "Antisemitic"? A geurnsey I'm happy to wear.
The Objective is to STARVE Palestinians so that they 'voluntarily leave.' Thus, the 'Israeli' Ethnic Cleansing can be pursued without hiccups (in their mind) & this problem is 'solved.'
However, The Resistance is well aware of all this & will Attrition & Implode 'Israel' long before such things get accomplished by them & their Vile, Bankrupt & Immoral Western Backers.
(For those interested)
If you wish to read (& listen!) to more of My commentary, here is my Main Stack:
https://thefallofthewest.substack.com
Thank You Kindly to everyone!
Maybe the long-running animosity between the United Nations & Israel can be explained by a clash of worldviews:
https://outofbabel.substack.com/p/swords-plowshares-spears-and-pruning
The ICJ haven’t ruled. That’s factually incorrect.
They ruled that SA’s case is plausible. Very significant, though it would have been great to witness the US, GB and France having to veto an order by the ICJ for an immediate cease fire. Their mask would have been totally off. Well, it kinda is off already of course…
No, they didn’t. “62. The Court is not called upon, for the purposes of its decision on the request for the
indication of provisional measures, to establish the existence of breaches of obligations under the
Genocide Convention, but to determine whether the circumstances require the indication of
provisional measures for the protection of rights under that instrument. As already noted, the Court
cannot at this stage make definitive findings of fact (see paragraph 30 above), and the right of each
Party to submit arguments in respect of the merits remains unaffected by the Court’s decision on the
request for the indication of provisional measures.”
Great piece Johnathon, please send it to Penny Wong, Australia’s Foreign minister, she seems to have lost all sense of humanity.
I do not believe a single thing the Israeli's say.
ALL lies.
Good article. Gives good insight into the history of UNRWA.
Excellent work, thank you!
Thank you for your work, Jonathan. There is a growing movement online for concerned individuals to donate directly to UNRWA.
We already know that the bully nations have been using a threat/reward system not just with critical charitable organizations such as UNRWA, but national governments that have refused to kowtow. This is one of the reasons I strongly support the rise of the Global South and BRICS+ activities this year.
What is especially gross about this particular pause of UNRWA funding is the attempt to take away from South Africa's impressive judicial win - and it was a magnificent historical milestone led by South Africa.
The bully nations shifted the news stream from the ICJ ruling, and tried to take away a winner's shining moment. It is a cheap move rooted in envy to steal another’s shine. So, we are pushing for individual donations to UNRWA for those who can do so financially. Also, Francis Boyle is on a recent panel with Consortium News and he speaks about the judicial win, and the likely next steps. I am quite hopeful with Boyle’s assessment of next steps. 😊
Thanks to you and to all who stand upright-eous!
Nazi Zionist Israel is a criminal, murderous colonial state that must be destroyed.
I often feel that way, too. But (as the article itself points out, saying that the ICJ "...could easily widen its investigation to include western states..."), the US, UK and the other imperialist states are full partners with Israel, which never could have committed its many crimes without those states' constant backing. In particular, the US is *also* a criminal, murderous colonial state. When the US supports Israel, what it's really doing is supporting itself & its system for global control, in which Israel functions as the US's key regional lieutenant in charge of the M.E.
Should we also conclude that the US "must be destroyed?" I'm not entirely comfortable with that way of putting it (partly, perhaps, because I live here!) but at the very least, the US is in desperate need of a thoroughgoing "reboot," essentially a "revolution." Our entire political system is rotten to the core and needs to be swept away, and totally reorganized from the ground up. We have to face up to the fact that the US is "the" basic problem in today's world; that if the US isn't fixed, nothing can be fixed.
You are entirely correct, Richard: if the US isn't fixed, nothing can be fixed. And the US is unfixable. It is worse, on a larger scale, than Nazi Zionist Israel, and it, too, needs to be destroyed in its imperial form.
13,000 UNRWA members, 12 ''so-called rotten apples, so throw the remaining 12,988 good apples overboard as an excuse to further Israel's quest to insure that the Palestinians go the way of the ''DODO'' bird. Carl
When I looked at what is United Nations’ Relief and Works Agency recently, I was curious why it was specifically for care of Palestinian's, I initially hoped that was because they where rightly been given special care, but thanks to your illuminating article we see that it was in fact apartheid Israel, that way back bullied United Nations into seperating or indeed apartheiding Palestinians also from the United Nation's universal care of refugees, because it would of put Israel's then huge 1948 Nakba massacres & ethnic cleansing of Palestinian peoples on same common human rights & conscience as the same Jewish Holocaust refugees, whom colonial Israel was busy giving the lands that it was stealing from Palestinian refugees.
I am happy to see at least Spain's government is not following USA Western genociders on this, Spain has refused pressure to cut it's vital fundinding to the UNRWA. I hope Ireland where I live will also refuse to side here with this real and explicit act of further genocide against Palestinians.
Every word of your concise article is vital reading and understanding. Cheers Jonathan, I have shared it to my public facebook page for what that's worth.