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| Netanyahu calls for dismantling of UNRWA |
| 2017-06-12 |
| [Iran Press TV] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for the dismantling of the United Nations ...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... Relief and Works Agency for Paleostine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which aids millions of Paleostinian refugees across the region. In public remarks to his cabinet at its weekly meeting on Sunday, Netanyahu accused UNRWA of anti-Israeli incitement, which, he said, was rife in institutions, including schools, run by the agency. "It is time UNRWA be dismantled and merged with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees," the Israeli premier said. Netanyahu said UNRWA had perpetuated, rather than solved, the Paleostinian refugee problem, adding that he had conveyed his message to Nikki Haley ...first woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley is the youngest current governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems... , the US ambassador to the United Nations. Referring to a meeting he held in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds on Wednesday with Haley, Netanyahu said, "I told her it was time the United Nations re-examine UNRWA's existence." A 'fantasizing' Bibi Netanyahu's comments did not go unnoticed in the besieged Gazoo Strip, which has been blockaded by the Israeli regime for nearly ten years now. Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gazoo-based front man for UNRWA, said the Israeli prime minister was pursuing a "fantasy." Chris Gunness, UNRWA's chief front man, said only the UN General Assembly, by a majority vote, could change the agency's mandate. "In December 2016, UNRWA's mandate was extended for three years by the General Assembly by a large majority," he wrote in an email to Rooters. UNRWA was established by the UN General Assembly in 1949 after thousands of Paleostinians fled or were expelled by Israeli forces from their homes in the 1948 war. UNRWA is tasked with providing assistance and protection to a population of some five million registered Paleostinian refugees. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #5 At any rate, today UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres called on member states to support UNRWA, according to The Times of Israel. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-12 17:43 |
| #4 Chris Gunness, UNRWA's chief front man, said only the UN General Assembly, by a majority vote, could change the agency's mandate. As I recall, the General Assembly's votes are advisory, the Security Council's are definitive. If I'm right, the Security Council need only vote to defund or dismantle the UNRWA, so long as there is no veto by one of the five permanent members, and it will be so. Or contrariwise, a single permanent member can veto the next voted extension three years from now, in December, 2019. That is to say, Ambassador Nikki Haley, representing the United States. It will be pointed out hysterically at that point that -- like the Paris Agreement -- the rest of the world can continue supporting this noble cause without America and the formal backing of the UN, which is perfectly true. But with so many calls on their various public purses, they'll talk big and act small, if at all. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-06-12 17:00 |
| #3 Established in 1949 and the problem is still there? That is what? 70 or so years? Now that is what I call an EPIC FAIL. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2017-06-12 08:09 |
| #2 Make it "dismantle the UN", and we've got a deal. |
| Posted by: Dave D. 2017-06-12 07:19 |
| #1 Bloody likely. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2017-06-12 04:45 |