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2024-01-29 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
Report: Under US pressure, Israel okays UN visit to northern Gaza, places conditions
[IsraelTimes] Acceding to US pressure, the war cabinet last Thursday approved allowing a United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
delegation to enter northern Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with an iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
to assess the situation there and map the residents’ needs ahead of a mass return home, the Ynet news site reports, adding the Jerusalem has placed conditions.

The move is largely procedural after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken
...71st United States secretary of state and a leading light of the corrupt and inept Biden administration. He previously served as deputy national security advisor from 2013 to 2015 and deputy secretary of state from 2015 to 2017 under the corrupt and inept Obama administration. He advocated for the 2003 invasion of Iraq while serving as the Democratic staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008. He was a foreign policy advisor for the Biden 2008 presidential campaign. During his tenure in the Obama administration, Blinken helped craft B.O.'s policy on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and the nuclear program of Iran. We all saw how well each of those worked. After leaving government service, Blinken moved into the private sector, co-founding WestExec Advisors, a lobbying firm...
said earlier this month that Israeli leaders had agreed to facilitate the visit.

There are no details on when the visit will take place.

Ynet says Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has conditioned the visit on the UN team first touring Israeli communities ravaged during Hamas
...a contraction of the Arabic words for "frothing at the mouth",...
’s October 7 onslaught; on Israel clarifying that okaying the visit doesn’t constitute an intention to return Gazooks to the Strip’s north; and on having a US official join the UN delegation.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [37 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 They don't actually need to visit to draw their conclusions.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-01-29 00:25||   2024-01-29 00:25|| Front Page Top

#2 Israel charges back into Gaza City as U.S. considers response to killing of its troops
Posted by Skidmark 2024-01-29 09:26||   2024-01-29 09:26|| Front Page Top

#3  They don't actually need to visit to draw their conclusions.

"We prefer to think of it as working within a pre-defined framework. That way, we don't sound like useless wankers. Also, by visiting on-site, we get per diem + expenses."
Posted by SteveS 2024-01-29 11:15||   2024-01-29 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 per diem

Tel Aviv, though not Israel’s capitol, has some of the best restaurants and nightlife in the world, ‘tis said.

I’ve not been, but just about every year their Blues society sends bands to the International Blues Competition in Memphis, and they regularly make it into the final round.
Posted by trailing wife 2024-01-29 11:22||   2024-01-29 11:22|| Front Page Top

#5 Re #1: The report is probably already written, They just need to get some photographs to flesh it out.
Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2024-01-29 12:52||   2024-01-29 12:52|| Front Page Top

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