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by gryzzly 869 days ago
A relief agency that employs terrorists is being held to an impossible standard you think? It’s an impossible standard to not hire people who kill, kidnap and rape?

And btw, 12 out 12000 is 0,1%. Also, it’s more like 10% btw, and 50% having personal family ties to Hamas.

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Sorry, that should have been 0.1%.

The claim about 10% doesn't seem to say much. What does it mean exactly for someone to be a "Hamas/PIJ operative"? Has UNRWA been told who these people are and what they have done? I suspect we will eventually find out if there was any truth behind the allegations against the 12 (or 13) specific people accused of involvement in the attack, but I doubt we will ever learn anything about the 10%. The 50% is completely meaningless. People are responsible for their own individual actions, not those of their family members.

My question remains, are UNRWA employees more likely to have been involved in or associated with atrocities than the average person in the region? Involvement and association doesn't necessarily mean that they personally committed those atrocities. How does this compare with the average Palestinian or Israeli? Should I boycott an Israeli company if 0.1% of their employees were involved in the commission of war crimes or other atrocities in the IDF, even if they were fired/suspended when the accusation came to light, and no one seems to be able to suggest what they should have done differently to avoid hiring them?

so do you think that in a family where father is launching rockets indiscriminately at people, the mom will be teaching children about coexistance and building a peace loving community?
When you're facing an illegal occupation, firing rockets back is called resistance, and there's a reason it is widely recognized as legitimate.

As for how indiscriminate it is, hard to take seriously from someone who's defending a regime that has actively carpet bombed cities for the past 4 months.

widely recognized as legitimate? indiscriminate rocket launches at villages, towns and cities is a war crime and is not recognized ny anyone apart from purple haired 19 yo tiktok watchers, there is not a single official entity apart from Iran-proxies who see that as legitimate resistance, you are absolutely insane suggesting that
if israel “carpet bombed cities” how many victims would there be? you are a hate inciting antisemite
I don’t care what individuals boycott. I care about hundreds of millions of euros going for support of terrorism.

You know what’s relief? Medicine, food, re-settling.

You know what’s not relief? Teaching children to martyr for the profit of some disgusting Putin/Ayatollah friends.

If we're not funding and arming organizations known for killing, kidnapping, and raping, I'm glad to hear the IDF will not longer be receiving arms manufactured in the US and UK.

Meanwhile, it's amusing the rape claims keep coming, even though not one woman has actually claimed that she was raped. But sure, it was widespread. Most certainly near the pile of 40 beheaded babies. Except, whoops, Haaretz reported the list of those killed on 10/7, and only one person was under the age of 3. Given the number of those killed by the IDF themselves due to the Hannibal protocol, there's a pretty high chance even that one wasn't killed by Hamas, who was more interested in military targets.

There's a reason all the songs go "lie lie lie lie lie lie..."

You are on Palestinians propaganda payroll.
liar
you are an antisemite liar, I bet you deny holocaust too.