Palestinians slam suspension of UNRWA funding by Western nations including US, UK : worldnews

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I see it too. I also hate it so much!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

SLAM!

How many slams can a nation survive?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

The answer is blowin' in the wind.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is clearly to divert media attention from the new UN interim judgement that Israel is committing a genocide

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

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?

[+] [email protected] -13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

It's a protest on the UN ruling.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Can you show some examples of these previous problems with the UN?

I don't trust the UN Watch to define antisemitism. Lol. But we can discuss that too and their report, I just need to have it open on my laptop.

PS: I speak Arabic and checked that Twitter thread. No antisemetic content as far as I can see (checked the first 5 or so images posted). Looks like this guy just scribbled crap on top of people's social media posts and called it support for October 7th. The other half of the stuff is just normal admin stuff? Wow what a crime lol

Extra clarification: yes, there are people on that page posting videos of the walls falling (no date on those) -- still no call whatsoever to kill civilians or do anything. To these people, this was akin to the Berlin Wall falling, and no posts seemed to incite violence... I think none mention "Jews" either. The post about the "pogrom that killed 3" is a video of an attack on a Settler.

The only one is one single person named Khadija saying "OMG how much I hate Jews!". In that conversation, they are discussing the hope of return to Palestine. The rest of her comment says, "So they are saying people in the North of Gaza can never return until the settlers living outside Gaza return to their homes... looks like this will take a long time".

These are messages of people caught in a cruel regime that wants to erase them from existence every day.

Then there's a link supposedly to show that one member of the group (who uses a fake name "Shams Al-Shamusa") praising Hamas, yet the link takes you elsewhere?

The rest of the posts are fillers with just lists of teacher's names. Huge violation of their privacy tbh.

Are you telling me they had access to all those chat groups and only a single person said they hated Jews?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Isn't this all based on Israeli accusations? As we know, Israel can't really be trusted

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

But it's confirmed by UN themselves and action are taken on 9 of the 12 individual, with 1 being dead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Where did you read that?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/r1zhhvmca

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How did you get to that conclusion? The only "evidence" from the article seems to be

Rockets found under UNRWA crates in Gaza (Photo: IDF)

Weapons hidden in an UNRWA bag, found in Gaza (Photo: IDF)

Was pictures from the IDF the evidence that convinced you?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

My opinion is based on the article where UN took action on 9 of the 12 individual after their preliminary investigation. Are you saying UN is wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Got it. I just asked about the evidence that convinced you, I'm not even sure how you could make the leap to

Are you saying UN is wrong?

or even what being wrong in this case means.

A lot of people believe IDF claims without a shred of evidence and that's a disservice to the truth, like the 40 beheaded babies thing. The total child casualty count for Oct 7 was 36, including Israeli forces killing at least 2 Israeli children in one encounter.

Wait now I get it, you were being defensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

No i don't get it lol. You asked i answered and you get oddly upset about my opinion, now i'm being called defensive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

This person was just thing to answer your question. I think you read too much into it philosophically /:

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Terrorists = Anyone fighting against western imperialism and colonialism

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

terrorists are people who attack civilians

Were the Viet Cong terrorists too? They attacked villages, took hostages, and used tunnels and guerilla warfare just the same. These are simply the most effective tactics for driving out an occupying force, and they wouldn’t be necessary if the colony wasn't there in the first place. Also, the vast majority of "israel" aren't civilians; they're IDF conscripts, settlers and colonizers.

Hamas does military action, which only endangers Palestinian civilians

Was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in Nazi Germany terrorism? Whatever the intention, the result was their own 13,000 civilians being killed, and very few German casualties.

Decolonization is violent. If you don't like it, don't colonize in the first place.

And certain actions from US

Not "certain actions"; the entirety of the US is a rogue terrorist state founded on the genocide of millions of indigenous people, slavery, and endless wars.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

They're literally both terrorists, I don't know what to tell you. But even when killing civilians, there are rules that sometimes allow it according to proportionality rules (which I think Israel has violated). And of course the Israeli government actively wants to and are by the definitions of many committing genocide, which is way worse.

Unless you think that Hamas killing people at a music festival is somehow a valid military target, they're terrorists. Just like how the IDF are terrorists for attacking Palestinian journalists and innocent family members.

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