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Wednesday, July 30, 2014

The UN as a Combatant

Today in Gaza Israeli forces found a small UN operated clinic that had an entrance to one of the Hamas terror tunnels in a room in the building.  Because of the small size of the clinic, it is literally impossible that the UN personnel in the building were unaware of the tunnel.  In fact, the construction of the tunnel must have disrupted clinic operations for many months.  Simply put, the UN provided cover for Hamas to build a tunnel from Gaza into Israel for the purpose of launching terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians.  By the way, the tunnel at the clinic was rigged to explode in the event that Israeli troops found and entered it.  The Israelis used robots to enter the tunnel once it was located and guess what, it exploded.  There were some minor Israeli injuries, but the clinic was destroyed.  I assume tomorrow we will hear from the media about how Israel blew up a UN clinic even though what happened was that Hamas rigged the clinic to explode.

Earlier in the fighting in Gaza, there have been at least three separate occasions when Hamas missiles were discovered stored in UN run schools and other weapons were discovered in a hospital run by the UN.  When the missiles were discovered and their presence in the UN facility publicized, the UN employees in the schools reacted the same way each time:  the UN took the missiles and gave them back to Hamas so that they could be used against Israel.

Meanwhile, many of the casualty figures coming from Gaza are attributed to UN observers.  Normally, one would assume that these observers were impartial, but especially in view of the other UN assistance to Hamas, such an assumption would be faulty.  One thing that we know is that the UN describes anyone who is not wearing a military uniform as a civilian.  The problem, of course, is that many Hamas fighters do not wear uniforms.  That means that if the UN calls half of the dead in Gaza civilians, the actual number of civilians is more likely closer to 20%, a remarkably low figure.

It is obscene that an organization like the UN which is supposed to work for peace has instead become an active participant in aid of Hamas in the fighting.




 

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