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2017-06-12 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Netanyahu calls for dismantling of UNRWA

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Posted by Fred 2017-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
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#1 Bloody likely.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-06-12 04:45|| 2017-06-12 04:45|| Front Page Top

#2 Make it "dismantle the UN", and we've got a deal.

Posted by Dave D. 2017-06-12 07:19|| 2017-06-12 07:19|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-12 08:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-12 17:00|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2017-06-12 17:43|| Front Page Top

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