I. The Mission   1. The United Nations has published numerous reports on the Israel-Palestine conflict. In general, stringent standards of evidence and law have been applied. (See for example the voluminous reports on, respectively, Israel’s 2008-9 assault on Gaza, and Israel’s 2018 repression of the Great March of Return in Gaza.) But, succumbing to […]

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The serial ethnic cleansings of the people of Gaza, to culminate with the expulsion of 1.4 million people trapped in Rafah (half of them children) to either al-Musawi, a forlorn desert area the size of Los Angeles Airport, or into the Egyptian Sinai, reminded me of something my late Mother once said about her experience during the […]

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Faithful Israeli scribe Philip Kingsley has published yet another article claiming that– ACCORDING TO ANONYMOUS ISRAELI OFFICIALS–Israel was shocked! shocked! by the reaction to their allegations against UNRWA, and they were shocked! shocked! that the allegations were revealed the day after the ICJ opinion. Just like this fellow was shocked! shocked!     Kingsley can […]

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The Times’ Patrick Kingsley specializes in peddling homicidal Israeli propaganda: the al-Shifa hospital Hamas command-and-control center; the 450 miles of Hamas tunnels; the humanitarian IDF operational orders. And now the evil UNRWA-Hamas axis. This certifiable slime bucket reported on January 28 that “The accusations are contained in a dossier provided to the United States government […]

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Basing himself on Israeli “military officials, who spoke anonymously to discuss a sensitive matter” (“U.N. Agency for Palestinians Imperiled by Terrorism Charges,” January 29, 2024), Patrick Kingsley reported in today’s Times that 257.5 percent of UNRWA members belonged to Hamas; that UNRWA siphoned international aid to build a Hamas “terror tunnel” via the center of […]

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