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2020-12-27 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Israel, UAE collaborating to eliminate UNRWA
[Jpost] In doing so, Abu Dhabi would be rallying to a long-standing demand from Israel, insisting for years that UNRWA is obstructing peace.

Israel and the United Arab Emirates are working together to eliminate the United Nations
...aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society...
Relief and Works Agency for Paleostinian Refugees (UNRWA) without solving the issue of Paleostinian refugees, the French newspaper Le Monde reported.

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The report alleged that this has been underway since Israel and the UAE announced normalization between them in August.

According to the report, Emirati officials are considering an action plan intended to gradually eliminate UNRWA, without making this development conditional on a resolution of the refugee problem. This is despite the UAE having been a major source of funding to UNRWA in 2018 and 2019, along with Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
, to offset US President Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
's halting of funds to the agency, bringing it to the brink of bankruptcy.

In doing so, Abu Dhabi would be rallying to a long-standing demand from Israel, insisting for years that UNRWA is obstructing peace.The UN agency UNRWA was established 70 years ago to supply aid to Paleostinian refugees, and its mandate is renewed every three years.Last year in November, the UN General Assembly approved the extension of UNRWA’s mandate for three more years, only a week after its commissioner-general Pierre Krahenbuhl resigned after a UN ethics report alleged mismanagement and abuses of authority among bigwigs of the agency, after what Israel called for UNRWA’s closure.

The ethics report claimed that since 2015, members of UNRWA’s inner circle have been steadily consolidating their power, but that the situation escalated markedly from the beginning of 2018, coinciding with the US decision to remove its funding, serving "as an excuse for an extreme concentration of decision making power in members of the ’clique.’" It further claimed that these developments led to an "exodus of senior and other staff" and a work culture "characterized by low morale, fear of retaliation... distrust, secrecy, bullying, intimidation, and marginalization... and management that is highly dysfunctional, with a significant breakdown of the regular accountability structure".

Much of the report focuses on allegations surrounding the conduct of Krahenbuhl, who took up the post in March 2014, citing a range of corrupt and unprofessional activities.

Shortly after the details of the report became known, the Netherlands and Switzerland
...home of the Helvetians, famous for cheese, watches, yodeling, and William Tell...
suspended their funding of UNRWA. They were followed in August 2019 by the government of New Zealand.

While the main UN agency dealing with refugees — UNHCR — concentrates on resettling them, facilitating their voluntary repatriation or their local integration and resettlement, UNRWA maintains millions of people as refugees decade after decade, expanding the numbers year after year.
Posted by trailing wife 2020-12-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [16 views ]  Top

#1 Now please do other agencies too.
Posted by Dron66046 2020-12-27 09:56||   2020-12-27 09:56|| Front Page Top

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