Israel Calls UNRWA for What It Is

Israel has at last come out and stated what anyone not blinded by hated of the Jewish state already knows: the UNRWA is a terrorist organisation.

This is an organisation, after all, which has peddled anti-Semitic propaganda as ‘schoolbooks’ for decades. Whose own leadership bragged of teaching Palestinians how to paraglide, just months before paragliders were used to devastating effect in the October 7 atrocities.

Whose own senior employees gleefully and openly took part in the slaughter.

Late last week, the IDF and Shin Bet confirmed the death of Muhammad Abu Attawi in Gaza, and named him as a UNRWA staffer and commander of Hamas’s Nukbha force who led the killing and kidnapping of partygoers at the Nova music festival.

According to UNRWA, Attawi’s name was included in a letter the refugee agency received from Israel in July that included a list of 100 staff members who were also allegedly members of terror groups, including Hamas.

Israeli media reported that the agency said it didn’t take any action against Attawi, who worked as a driver, because Israel didn’t respond to a request for further information.

Or, because it didn’t want to. Because hundreds of its employees share Attawi’s hateful ideology.

As, clearly, does Australia’s taxpayer-funded broadcaster.

Israel’s parliament has passed legislation targeting the main UN agency providing aid to people in Gaza.

What they really mean is, ‘providing material support to Hamas’. Hamas tunnels repeatedly show up under UNRWA sites. Hamas uses UNRWA ‘schools’ and ‘hospitals’ as rocket launcher sites and machine-gun nests. Hamas militants are filmed helping themselves to UNRWA aid and running ‘aid stations’ as personal military installations.

We can all see what the ABC won’t.

The new laws designate the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) a terrorist organisation, cutting diplomatic ties with the agency and barring it from operating on Israeli soil.

Two bills passed in the Knesset prohibit ties between Israeli officials and the agency, and strip its staff of their legal immunities.

They ban UNRWA from conducting "any activity" or providing any service inside Israel.

The legislation, which would not take effect immediately, risks collapsing the fragile aid distribution process at a moment when the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is worsening and Israel is under increased US pressure to ramp up aid.

Tell someone who cares. Don’t ask me to give a rat’s arse about the people who cheered and danced and passed out sweets while the hostages and corpses of Israelis were paraded like trophies. You get what you fuckin’ deserve, as the Joker would say.

If the ABC are ideologically blinded, our pathetic foreign minister is boots-deep in with the UN’s terror wing.

Foreign Minister Penny Wong said Australia was among a group of nations that had urged Israel not to pass the legislation.

“UNRWA does life-saving work,” she said on X.

Tell that to the Israelis tortured, raped and murdered by UNRWA employees. Or to the hostages held by UNRWA workers and occasionally given rations with UN logos on them.

The coalition isn’t buying the terrorists’ sob story.

Australian money paid to the United Nations agency working in Gaza should be diverted to a different aid group, the federal opposition says, following Israel's move to ban UNRWA from operating within its borders […]

Shadow Foreign Minister Simon Birmingham said it was a matter for Israel's parliament to decide its own laws, “just as the US passed legislation banning US taxpayer funding going to UNRWA” after the allegations linking some staff to the attack.

“The Coalition believes no Australian taxpayer dollars should be at risk of falling into terrorist hands, and funds should instead be provided to trusted humanitarian organisations,” Senator Birmingham said.

Or, even better, given back to Australian taxpayers.