2y ago

UN headquarters in Gaza bombed, resulting in numerous casualties

www.lbcgroup.tv

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Why the fuck are we sending money to these genocidal monsters again?
- Can you please think of the shareholders of corporations that make missiles and weapons? 😠
  
  Can't they be satisfied with Ukraine?
- The Israel lobby.
  
  Or as I like to call them, "The Hobby Lobby Lobby".
- U mean those teaching kids how important is to kill any Jew?
  https://www.blackburn.senate.gov/2023/11/icymi-un-watch-fact-check-unrwa-educators-are-linked-to-antisemitism-and-support-for-terrorism
  UNRWA teachers and educational materials call for the murder of Jews, and the Biden administration should immediately halt all funding for the agency.
  
  I'd like a secondary source on that which isn't from a Tennessee Republican parroting an NGO that is well known as a pro-Israeli lobbying group.
  
  You're getting your news from a republican senator's news page....?
  Oh my god, how dumb is that.
  UNRWA has a stringent staff conduct framework in place to ensure that staff members do not affiliate
  themselves, and by extension, UNRWA, with any other groups. All UNRWA staff, Palestine refugees, and
  contractors, vendors, and non-state donors are screened against the Consolidated United Nations Security
  Council Sanctions List.
  UNRWA does not, and will not, divert any humanitarian aid into the wrong hands. Donor support goes
  directly to those in need. The Blackburn letter’s authors are seemingly unaware of the requirements of U.S.
  law, or any of the provisions of the US-UNRWA Framework for Cooperation. UNRWA is required to take
  all possible measures to ensure funding provided by the United States does not provide assistance to, or
  otherwise support, terrorists or terrorist organizations.
  This includes reporting requirements on any aid diversions
  Last night, one of our fallen UNRWA colleagues included Mai, a person who overcame physical disabilities to
  become a front-end developer at the UNRWA Information Technology Service Center. Since the horrific
  events of 7-October, UNRWA has already lost Mai and 71 other members of its staff to the conflict. Despite
  this, thousands of UNRWA staff, many of whom are now displaced themselves, are still on the job assisting
  the 690,000 Gazans sheltering at our 149 facilities, as well as working at our healthcare centres.
  But yea, tell me again why this makes it okay to kill children again?
- I don't think that any government funds anything for ideological reasons. It's always about influence and power.
  
  I'm surprised almost no one here acknowledges that the US is supporting Israel because Israel is the US's base of power in the Middle East. Of course the US government will support Israel. To do otherwise would be to weaken the US's influence and military supremacy in the region. That is all that matters to the government.
  
  Don't get me wrong, I not saying that it's good, I just answering the question.
- International politics is complicated. Sometimes allies do things you don't like.
  
  Normal reaction is to not support someone when they do something you don't like.
- Hamas is very good at stealing from whatever is sent to help Palestinians.
Downpunxx will be here any minute to let us know that the Hamas was stockpiling weapons under the UN headquarters, using them as human shields, and the UN workers in that building were complicit and happy to let them do so.
- I blocked them a bit ago. Lemmy and kbin are much nicer places without them. Can't believe they haven't been banned yet.
  
  I'll eventually do the same, but I have to admit that I find witnessing their trolling to be more entertaining than blocking them for now.
  I'm not sure they've done anything bannable. They have horrible opinions that I strongly disagree with, but I don't remember seeing anything worse than that.
I didn't see in the article which terrorist faction was responsible.
Was it the IDF or Hamas? Anyway screw them both.
Genocidal maniacs have no place in society.

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