THERE IS AN INTERESTING VIDEO at http://tinyurl.com/ybmbhu2a showing Gaza residents holding signs telling the world that, because of the U.S.’ cut to UNRWA’s budget, they will go hungry.
The funny thing is the signs all are professionally made and in English.
I will suggest that most of the Gazans have no idea what is written on the signs.
The video is embedded in an Israel HaYom article, with unnamed “news agencies,” is headed “After US cuts, Palestinian refugee agency seeks global donations.” The summary paragraph – better, “teaser” paragraph – beneath the hedcq reads Trump administration suspends $65 million for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, demanding operations undergo fundamental review • U.N. fears aid cut will deepen economic hardship in Gaza • UNRWA warns schools, healthcare will be hit the hardest
It is interesting that President Trump’s demand for a “fundamental review” of UNRWA operations is ignored by the local director.
According to the Israel HaYom article, UNRWA Director Pierre Krahenbuhl said the fundraising appeal would begin in the coming days. The agency said it is too soon to say which countries will be approached to fill the void or what services are at risk.
"At stake is the dignity and human security of millions of Palestine refugees, in need of emergency food assistance and other support in Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip," he said in a statement.
Meanwhile, The Palestinian Authority, already angered by U.S. President Donald Trump's Dec. 6 recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, denounced the decision, as "blackmail."
"Any reduction of U.S. aid to UNRWA will not succeed in imposing the American positions, which are biased in favor of the occupation [Israel]," the Palestinian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Note that, at least in the Israel HaYom article, there is no mention of all the funds diverted to Hamas’ weapons buying or tunnel building, nor is there reference to the funds diverted to “Palestinian” leaders’ pockets, as well as funding for jailed and “martyred” terrorists who murdered Israeli civilians young and old, Christian, Muslim, and Jew.
There also is no mention in the article about the UNRWA facilities – schools and hospitals – from which Hamas fires rockets into Israeli civilian centers.
The world gives the “Palestinians” – including Hamas in Gaza – millions of dollars each year, but the “Palestinians” still can’t pay the electric bill, or the water bill, or the fuel bill for the Gaza generator.
Does anyone wonder why?
The song Tradition from Fiddler on the Roof comes to mind, but instead of tradition the word is diversion – diversion of donated funds to “other” uses (ibid.).
Trivia: Fiddler, originally in Yiddish, was translated to English, then from English to Hebrew, then from Hebrew back into Yiddish. I wonder if it survived all the translations.
Krahenbuhl said 525,000 boys and girls in 700 UNRWA schools could be affected by the cuts, as well as Palestinian access to primary healthcare, but he pledged to keep facilities open through 2018 and beyond.
Never mind that in UNRWA schools “Palestinian” boys and girls are taught to hate Jews in general and Israelis in particular1, that being a shahid is a wonderful life (?) goal. Never mind that, except for a few specific “Palestinians,” Israeli military medics and Israeli hospitals regularly treat “Palestinians” – the leadership runs to Israeli hospitals when they or their kin are ill – even when the “Palestinians” use ambulances to carry bombs into Israel.2
Sources
1. UN Textbooks: http://tinyurl.com/ydcz2wl5
2. Bomb Found in Red Crescent Ambulance: https://www.haaretz.com/1.5287961
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