@98Percent UNRWA is being defunded because they fund Hamas. @jeffowski
@AlliFlowers @jeffowski Can you provide links to evidence for this please?
And also, do you know how the defunding nations are now getting the necessary aid provided to Gaza? What alternatives have they put in place?
@98Percent @AlliFlowers -- What I anticipate is that Israel invented/fabricated most of the allegations to GET the funding cut, but it will take time for the lies to come out.
This is what #genocide looks like.
@jeffowski Read the articles I linked, Jeff. You couldn’t be further off base this time. @98Percent
@jeffowski We didn’t stop funding the police because the police are not funding terrorists. Apples and oranges. @98Percent
@jeffowski Did I ever say I was on the moral high ground? Did I ever say I was ok with starving innocent civilians? You’re putting a lot into a few posts. @98Percent
@AlliFlowers @98Percent -- But you seem to be defending and encouraging the funding stop, and not mentioning how it is effecting innocent people, and how no alternatives have been proposed or created to prevent the impact to innocent people.
No one seems to be in a position to continue funding to the UNRWA and no one seems to be in a position to be able to ensure 100% of all aid goes to innocent people, but there are A LOT of people that have the power to set up the alternative and NOTHING.
@jeffowski I am explaining why the funding to UNRWA stopped. That’s it. Where are all the actual humanitarian agencies who have sworn to take care of this kind of problem? @98Percent
No alternative ? Have you never heard of the UNHCR ? Or any other organisation that normally deals with this ?
The UNRWA exists *only* to handle the Palestinians, and is both incompetent and complicit of terrorism.
@Gryon @AlliFlowers @98Percent -- So why aren't the countries shifting the funding? It is a full cut right now.
@jeffowski Have you tried asking them? @Gryon @98Percent
@AlliFlowers @Gryon @98Percent -- That's the funny thing.. We're supposed to have the smart people and the experts on this and they haven't found an alternative? And I got randos on Mastodon that are mad experts.
@jeffowski @AlliFlowers @Gryon @98Percent , maybe alternatives are hard to find because helpful people on the ground, as well as journalists, have an aversion of being shot dead by Israeli people in the army as well as police and Israeli civilians (civilian snipers are really just terrorists, as is any armed force committing genocide).
@jeffowski
I don't know. Maybe shifting the fundings would make the decision definitive ? It is just a guess, I really don't know for sure.
@jeffowski @Gryon @AlliFlowers @98Percent
It's not a "full cut". Speaking of Germany: The UNRWA budget allocated for 2023 isn't touched, and currently there are no budget talks. Germany actually increased spending to ICRC and UNICEF just a few days earlier.
@jeffowski And no, police brutality and murder are not terrorism. @98Percent
@AlliFlowers @98Percent -- https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/police-brutality/
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/hidden-plain-sight-racism-white-supremacy-and-far-right-militancy-law
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/a-majority-of-americans-say-policing-should-be-reformed-but-most-white-people-still-dont-think-police-treat-black-people-differently
Still didn't answer the question. What color is your skin?
@jeffowski When did you ask that question, and what difference does it make? @98Percent
@AlliFlowers @98Percent @jeffowski you don’t even need to stretch to the US police. These countries fund/support Israel when they commit war crimes and terrorism with illegal settlements. If they were serious about not finding terrorism they would cut all funding for Israel.
@alpinefolk But then Christians won’t be able to fulfill their biblical prophecy. @98Percent @jeffowski
@AlliFlowers @98Percent -- Police Brutality and Murder isn't terrorism? You must be a white dude to say that.
Again, can't state that you're on the moral high ground if you're ok starving innocent civilians.