(Canberra Times, 18/3/2024)
The USA is one of the most corrupt countries in the world led by corrupt dishonest politicians – Biden v Trump – the best that 350 million people can come up with – joke – Mark
Heartening though it was on Friday to see Australia jump before the US to uncork $6 million worth of aid pledged to the United Nations Relief Works Agency, the seven-week strike by rich Western nations was a dark chapter.
WATCH: At least 112 people were killed and at least 760 were injured when Israel Defense Forces troops opened fire while starving Palestinian civilians were gathering around food aid trucks, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
One historians will chart as obsequiousness by Western nations for whom no level of Palestinian civilian carnage had warranted clear rebuke, let alone interruption to the enabling of Israel.
The suspension of promised humanitarian funds had cleared a low bar – the mere assertion of UNRWA complicity in the atrocities of October 7.
Some deaths – including the reported starvation of 20 children – may well prove attributable to UNRWA’s neutering. Who will be held accountable for that? For accepting as credible the still unverified claims from a combatant which itself has been found by the International Court of Justice to be, prima facie, at a “plausible” risk of committing genocidal acts?
The record will show the ICJ’s preliminary ruling has caused little friction for Tel Aviv with its powerful rule-of-law friends who are also signatories to the court.
Further, it will show the bullish Netanyahu government insisted on the defunding of UNWRA and was speedily obliged by the US, UK, European countries, and Australia.
Such double standards abound in this space. Despite the court’s procedural thoroughness and the overweening caution of its enunciation, its finding was brushed off while the allegation of UNRWA involvement in Hamas’s October 7 rampage was treated as if it were established fact.
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