Palestinians slam suspension of UNRWA funding by Western nations including US, UK
Palestinians slam suspension of UNRWA funding by some Western nations
SLAM!
How many slams can a nation survive?
The answer is blowin' in the wind.
This is clearly to divert media attention from the new UN interim judgement that Israel is committing a genocide
Not just that, but it's meant to discredit the UN as being on the side of Hamas, thereby invalidating the ICJ decision.
Your dog is Hamas now.
Man it sounds like Israel really wants to deliberately inflict on a group of people conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part.
How is it that this accusation is taken seriously right away while the ICJ case will take years and a ceasefire is unmentionable?
I mean, the UNRWA needs to stop hiring terrorists. Vetting needs to be done better. At the same time though, Palestinians do need the aid, desperately. It's a mess of a situation.
I doubt UNRWA would have hired them knowing this. If I recall it was 13 out of 13,000 employees? They terminated their contracts right away even before investigating them. Seems like UNRWA rectified its issue.
Cutting the funding is just silent participation in the genocide.
It's a protest on the UN ruling.
The problem for me is that it's not the first time that it's happened. It's definitely much less of a problem than Israel makes it out to be, but it is at the same time most certainly a problem. At the very least, the amount of people sympathetic to a literal terrorist organisation and attack (as revealed by the UN Watch of the existence of a Telegram group of 3000 UNRWA educators where talk switched between official business and antisemitism etc. https://twitter.com/hillelneuer/status/1746962851955191937) is too high.
Not to say the UN Watch isn't itself biased (which it is), because of course everything has bias, but there have been quite many legitimate accusations that show that the UN does not have a good track record on this. And the UN does have an anti-Israel slant (though not as strong as the UN Watch's pro-Israel slant)
I do think that the funding shouldn't be cut. But again, this still does need to be solved, it's an actual institutional problem. But I don't have a solution.
Terrorists = Anyone fighting against western imperialism and colonialism
No, terrorists are people who attack civilians as a war crime. Including actions from both the IDF and Hamas. And certain actions from US troops in various wars. But this is not the first account nor instance of UNRWA and its facilities being used in support of or directly for when Hamas does military action, which only endangers Palestinian civilians. If hospitals and schools etc. are indiscriminately used as war facilities, they become valid targets under international law, and thereby makes the civilians there much more at risk.
Wtf is up with the proliferation of "slams" in social media headlines? Hell, the article in question doesn't even say "slams", it says "condemns".
I see it too. I also hate it so much!
You're obviously old and not jiggy with the latest lingo go buy your coffin already boomer-
Seriously, though, I don't bother trying to figure it out anymore. Every generation invents their own slang to rebel, but I can't tell if this is millenials taking over and injecting their brand, or an attempt to click-bait zoomers, or even gen-x trying to be hip. "Slam" sounds gen-x-ey to me.
It's just shoddy writing, but then I hear a lot of "language evolves," "it's common usage and so correct," and references to fucking Merriam-Webster, the Guiness Book of World Records of dictionaries.