Monday, October 04, 2004
UN Busted: Helping Terrorists Again
Although I'm late to this story (I think it broke Friday night), I couldn't let it pass without comment.
As the article states, this isn't the first time UN vehicles have been used by terrorists. If they aren't taking the steps to prevent this, is there any reason why the IDF shouldn't designate the UN an enemy combatant until they do?
Although I don't always agree with him, Pat Robertson gets an amen from me on this one:
Prominent American Evangelical leader Pat Robertson said Monday the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
should be dismantled.
"UNRWA should be abolished. It has perpetuated intolerable situation for refugees and kept them in perpetual bondage," Robertson, who is in Israel for the Feast of the Tabernacles celebrations, said at a Jerusalem press conference.
He added that the UN agency, which is heavily funded by American taxpayers, should be "done away with."
The US provides over 25% of the UNRWA'a budget, more that any other country or agency. We need to at least stop these funds immediately until the UN ends their complicity in attacks on Israel, or better yet, impliment Pat Robertson's suggestion.
Update - Not only is the UNRWA unapologetic, but they brazenly admit that Hamas members are on their payroll:
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Peter Hansen on Monday told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he was sure members of the militant Hamas organization were on the payroll in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but that he did not "see that as a crime."
Israel has demanded Hansen's removal, while the UNRWA denied all charges and demanded an apology.
As the article states, this isn't the first time UN vehicles have been used by terrorists. If they aren't taking the steps to prevent this, is there any reason why the IDF shouldn't designate the UN an enemy combatant until they do?
Although I don't always agree with him, Pat Robertson gets an amen from me on this one:
Prominent American Evangelical leader Pat Robertson said Monday the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA)
should be dismantled.
"UNRWA should be abolished. It has perpetuated intolerable situation for refugees and kept them in perpetual bondage," Robertson, who is in Israel for the Feast of the Tabernacles celebrations, said at a Jerusalem press conference.
He added that the UN agency, which is heavily funded by American taxpayers, should be "done away with."
The US provides over 25% of the UNRWA'a budget, more that any other country or agency. We need to at least stop these funds immediately until the UN ends their complicity in attacks on Israel, or better yet, impliment Pat Robertson's suggestion.
Update - Not only is the UNRWA unapologetic, but they brazenly admit that Hamas members are on their payroll:
The Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) Peter Hansen on Monday told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that he was sure members of the militant Hamas organization were on the payroll in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, but that he did not "see that as a crime."
Israel has demanded Hansen's removal, while the UNRWA denied all charges and demanded an apology.
papijoe 5:57 AM
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