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| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by FiftyFifty(m): 5:24pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
AuthorMan:Great points, especially on Egypt, but not so on the Palestinians, due to the never-ending misinformation that they rejected the two-state-solutiin (2SS). The devil in every deal is in the details... The only Israeli PM who showed commitment to the 2SS was Yitzhak Rabin based on the 1993 Oslo Accord, and it was on that commitment that he got assassinated publicly by Yigal Amir, a jewish extremist in 1995. The camp David Summit in the year 2000 came fairly close to creating a 2SS during Ehud Barak. It came crashing down when Barak warned the Americans that he could not accept giving the Palestinians more than a purely symbolic sovereignty over any part of East Jerusalem. In total, Israel demanded that Palestine's territory in East Jerusalem be reduced to eight sections including six small enclaves. Palestinians objected to the lack of sovereignty and to the right of Israel to keep Jewish neighbourhoods that it built over the Green Line in East Jerusalem. The Israel also wanted to set up radar stations inside the Palestinian state, and be allowed to use its airspace. Israel also wanted the right to deploy troops on Palestinian territory in the event of an emergency, and the stationing of an international force in the Jordan Valley. Palestinian authorities would maintain control of border crossings under temporary Israeli observation. Israel would maintain a permanent security presence along the Palestinian-Jordanian border. Israel also demanded that the Palestinian state be demilitarized with the exception of its paramilitary security forces, that it would not make alliances without Israeli approval or allow the introduction of foreign forces west of the Jordan River. One of Israel's strongest demands was that Arafat declare the conflict over, and make no further demands. Israel also wanted water resources in the West Bank to be shared by both sides and remain under Israeli management. Israeli control of water resources in the new (almost) Palestinian state, along with de facto Israeli control over borders and the total demilitarisation of the Palestinian state basically guarantees that Palestine would be an Israeli state. Robert Malley, part of the Clinton administration and present at the summit, wrote that Arafat was told that Israel would not only retain sovereignty over some Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, but Haram Al Sharif too, and Arafat was also asked to accept a 9-to-1 ratio in land swaps. Shlomo Ben-Ami, the then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talks stated on Democracy now in 2006 that "Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well. The Palestinians compromised quite a bit. They started by asking for a state based on pre 1967 borders. The Israelis rejected that, so they asked for borders based on 1967. The Israelis also rejected that, so they asked for complete control over the West Bank and Gaza. The Israelis rejected that. And the same Palestinians are unjustly accused by people of rejecting the 2SS. (As recent as last week, Netanyahu publicly and boldly reiterated the Israel stance that the Palestinians shouldn't have a state, after Biden called for a 2SS). These and more are all documented by even the Israeli media such as the Haretz and by many Israeli authors such as Uri Avnery, Dan Cohen, and Ilan Pappe, among others. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by FiftyFifty(m): 5:29pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
AuthorMan:Great points, especially on Egypt, but not so on the Palestinians, due to the never-ending misinformation that they rejected the two-state-solutiin (2SS). The devil in every deal is in the details... The only Israeli PM who showed commitment to the 2SS was Yitzhak Rabin based on the 1993 Oslo Accord, and it was on that commitment that he got assassinated publicly by Yigal Amir, a jewish extremist in 1995. The camp David Summit in the year 2000 came fairly close to creating a 2SS during Ehud Barak. It came crashing down when Barak warned the Americans that he could not accept giving the Palestinians more than a purely symbolic sovereignty over any part of East Jerusalem. In total, Israel demanded that Palestine's territory in East Jerusalem be reduced to eight sections including six small enclaves. Palestinians objected to the lack of sovereignty and to the right of Israel to keep Jewish neighbourhoods that it built over the Green Line in East Jerusalem. The Israel also wanted to set up radar stations inside the Palestinian state, and be allowed to use its airspace. Israel also wanted the right to deploy troops on Palestinian territory in the event of an emergency, and the stationing of an international force in the Jordan Valley. Palestinian authorities would maintain control of border crossings under temporary Israeli observation. Israel would maintain a permanent security presence along the Palestinian-Jordanian border. Israel also demanded that the Palestinian state be demilitarized with the exception of its paramilitary security forces, that it would not make alliances without Israeli approval or allow the introduction of foreign forces west of the Jordan River. One of Israel's strongest demands was that Arafat declare the conflict over, and make no further demands. Israel also wanted water resources in the West Bank to be shared by both sides and remain under Israeli management. Israeli control of water resources in the new (almost) Palestinian state, along with de facto Israeli control over borders and the total demilitarisation of the Palestinian state basically guarantees that Palestine would be an Israeli state. Robert Malley, part of the Clinton administration and present at the summit, wrote that Arafat was told that Israel would not only retain sovereignty over some Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem, but Haram Al Sharif too, and Arafat was also asked to accept a 9-to-1 ratio in land swaps. Shlomo Ben-Ami, the then Israel's Minister of Foreign Relations who participated in the talks stated on Democracy now in 2006 that "Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well. The Palestinians compromised quite a bit. They started by asking for a state based on pre 1967 borders. The Israelis rejected that, so they asked for borders based on 1967. The Israelis also rejected that, so they asked for complete control over the West Bank and Gaza. The Israelis rejected that. And the same Palestinians are unjustly accused by people of rejecting the 2SS. (As recent as last week, Netanyahu publicly and boldly reiterated the Israel stance that the Palestinians shouldn't have a state, after Biden called for a 2SS). These and more are all documented by even the Israeli media such as the Haretz and by many Israeli authors such as Uri Avnery, Dan Cohen, and Ilan Pappe, among others. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Sunday2021: 7:01pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
This is what we expect from the US,UK, FRANCE, CANADA and all Europe. Let see how they will be feeding their terrorists. South Africa can as well start donating to the UN. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by KayB: 7:47pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
Cheap blackmail that can't pressure the UN and its agencies from upholding popular opinion |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by madridguy(m): 8:38pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
Mr man go and read and stop spamming my mentions. What exactly are their troops doing is Iraq and Syria ? 11doubledee: |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by AuthorMan: 8:38pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
FiftyFifty:I love your detailed explanation |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by NothingDoMe: 9:10pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
SaLongs1:🤣🤣 |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by themanderon: 10:26pm On Jan 27, 2024 |
adebowales:This is because Hamas is hiding away in their tunnels. They should come out and fight like real men. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Idaytesj29(m): 1:04am On Jan 28, 2024 |
AuthorMan:I enjoyed your submission, issue and event based. Let's now exchange views, I agree with your submission and let me state that, I hate the unnecessary waste of human life, I do not really care before but as a father and parent, I could imagine what the Israeli and Palestinian civilians who had lost families Children and aged to this conflict that has refused to die for decades because both sides refuses to compromise and embrace justice. Yes, they were both offered and agreed to 2 states solution, an agreement brokered by the UN and a border was demarcated for the two parties. But the Israelis did not halt the settlement expansion while the Palestinians rejected the two states solution initially believing they could get all their former Palestinians territories back as well, but this was long before Hezbollah was created in 1982, so it wasn't Hezbollah that advised the Palestinians. But then, the Palestinians position should not stop the Israelis from working on the two states solution, cos Israel herself took lands beyond the UN recommended boundaries, so Israel as well did not commit to the 2 states solution. Cos if she did, she would not occupy West Bank and have military 🪖🎖️ presence in Gaza and the world would be pointing accusing fingers to Palestine alone now. Yes, the history of the world is dominated by settlers violence against the aborigines, and these were majorly committed by the the whites settlers, the Europeans. They did it in Americas, notably the USA, Australia, South Africa, and the present case under discussion. These occupation and settlers domination of indigenous peoples does not justify or offer any justification for the cruelty, murders and deprivation they met upon the aborigines and siezing their lands. Check the American history very well, Red indians fought the settlers for decades but because of the superior war technology of the European settlers, they withdraw into the wilderness away from the settler towns and population. Over the years, they integrated, the integration was only possible because the Red Indians population has been decimated greatly by European settlers, so they dont matter much and they were not having their villages enclosed by wired fences or under siege, so they could farm the lands and do trades etc. If you are a fan of Hollywood, many wild wild west movies told the stories of Red Indians resistance to European settlers violence and many historical research covers that too. And the reason they are not fighting till date is cos they are allowed to integrate. Israel does not want the integration of Palestinians in the Israeli Occupied territories, they want a pure undiluted Jewish state, and a total take over of the "biblical Israeli lands". So, why not allow the Palestinians have theirs? Where do we expect the Palestinians to go if the Israelis keep expanding and there no policy of Palestinian integration? The Egyptian and Israeli diplomatic settlement over Sinai is commendable and smart move on the part of Israeli diplomats to silence Egypt for a long while in the region. The same thing is going on with Saudi Arabia and Israel , why can't we have same level of compromise over Palestine? Why does the settlements keep expanding in the West Bank? Why didn't the Israeli honor their own part of the 2 state agreement to really proof that the Palestinians leadership are the dare devils here? All of these points still does not justify the death and kidnap of 1700 Israelis and about 28,000 palestinians, women, aged and children included on both sides. As we have for years designated Hamas as a terror group, we don't expect much accountability from them, but for a State like Israel with membership in UN killing almost 30,000 people and destroying such no of civilian settlements including schools and hospitals through shellings and bombings.... They are just as culpable as Hamas terror group, infact their terror capabilities dwarfs that of Hamas terror group a 100 times over. It is only when they resorted to violence that we listen to them and remember they are under oppression, before October 7, we all have forgotten the Palestinians but as soon as something happened to our beloved Israel, we kick shout and mourn, cos they are the ones that matter to us, our double standards smells terrible. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Idaytesj29(m): 1:13am On Jan 28, 2024 |
11doubledee:Yes, compromise on both sides has to be made for lasting peace. And border will forever be an issue amongst states, but for one state in dispute with another people to have so much authority and control over them, a people they are disputing lands with is injustice. Israel should not have control over the Palestinian side, a neutral state should or the UN. Everything that caused the Jewish displacement and exile was never caused by the Palestinians, so why should they bear the consequences? It sure doesn't mean they don't have a place origin and at the same time does not mean the Palestinians should be decimated, exterminated, exiled or made stateless and homeless for their resettlement. Well, both sides applies violence and it's disproportionately affects one side that the other. It does not solve the problems and the longer the problem is left unsolved the more difficult it becomes. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Idaytesj29(m): 1:21am On Jan 28, 2024 |
SaLongs1:The last time I checked it's Israel that has delivered the magnitude violence and force you are describing. So, religion and the children that people give birth to is the problem now, not the territories or land? May be we should just wipe off that religion and their followers including the children they gave birth to right? So far the world does not like them, it wont amount to genocide at least the Israelis have started it for us in Gaza, we can help them finish it off. An atomic bomb will be helpful. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by SaLongs1(m): 2:18am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Idaytesj29:Stay blessed for suggesting something useful as per the atomic option it took such an act to crumble the ideology that made the Japanese one of the feared terrorists peoples of their time. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by 11doubledee: 6:53am On Jan 28, 2024 |
madridguy:It's not enough to just read MR MAN, comprehension is key. So to you having military bases amounts to stealing resources just like they doing in Qatar too? It is well. Nobody is spamming you, it's wrong to make baseless assertions and spread falsehood. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by 11doubledee: 6:54am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Idaytesj29:I quite agree with you. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by madridguy(m): 7:18am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Go and read and have comprehension brother... The Iraqi government have told them to leave their land, same as Assad of Syria have told them they should pack their load and leave... So what exactly are they doing rather than stealing their resources.. The Qatari government invited them so they can stay there as they want. 11doubledee: |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by madridguy(m): 7:25am On Jan 28, 2024 |
11doubledee You can educate yourself now.
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| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by madridguy(m): 7:27am On Jan 28, 2024 |
11doubledee You remember the gold bars stolen from Iraq?
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| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by 11doubledee: 7:40am On Jan 28, 2024 |
madridguy:Well nice insight,mine is to verify the sources of the News (credible or not),if true , the circumstances surrounding such moves and most importantly the destination of it. Before I draw my own conclusions. Because I despise stealing and wickedness as well but for china or Russia to accuse the USA of stealing is laughable. But Nice one though. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by madridguy(m): 8:01am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Brother, leave long story, nothing to verify again. US and her western allies mission is the middle East and Africa is simple, to steal and destroy. 11doubledee: |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Krismas(m): 8:16am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Botragelad: Axis powers angry about the ICJ ruling, have suspended funding to the UNRWA. I think given the suffering of just regular civilians this a cruel and cynical move. They created a prison camp where trade, industry, and economic independence is impossible for people.a. USA b. Canada c. UK d. Finland e. Australia f. Italy Contrary to the uninformed money was not stolen by Hamas to build tunnels. In fact the tunnels to Egypt used for smuggling consumer goods is what finances Hamas which are a result of Gaza being under siege and isolation for decades. If you want to read on how it works, then I recommend an article by famed economic historian Adam Tooze'. Here is the piece. It is a result of the Gaza siege. He did a short podcast on it as well if you don't want to read the article. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Krismas(m): 8:37am On Jan 28, 2024 |
themanderon: Hamas has been cooking IDF tanks all over Gaza! Howelse should REAL MEN fight? Only recently Hamas blew up buildings IDF was attempting to blow up with IDF inside ![]() Thus sending about 30 IDF PERMANENTLY to hellfire I tot u can’t do dat from inside tunnel? Or how u see am?
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| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Krismas(m): 8:59am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Idaytesj29: U are missing out on something important. There was nothing like Jews in Palestine until the 1940s wen they immigrated to the place. There is nothing like Jews in the Bible! It was scripted into the Bible by European translators. And it’s purpose is to further the greatest identity theft of the 21st century playing out b4 our eyes. The Jews are Europeans of Mongol origin. They are proselytes to Judaeaism, the religion formerly predominant in Palestine b4 the complete Islamization of the area for 700yrs of Islamic reign. Jews have no connection to Palestine in any way, shade or form. They are colonialists, planted in Palestine by Britain and America
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| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Idaytesj29(m): 9:31am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Krismas:Thanks for the addition, it's true that prior to 1940, Palestine had no significant Jewish population. It was the unjustly Balfour Declaration that brought them in after which they started the implementation of the extreme Zionist supremacist ideology. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by AuthorMan: 10:09am On Jan 28, 2024 |
Idaytesj29:I love your analysis. I should have responded instantly now but let me aquire more facts and dig more into history. Meanwhile, what I believe is, Israel expanded during the several wars her neighbors waged on her. Like in 1967 they expanded on all sides. It is a fact known throughout the ages that the victor in a war owns the conquered lands and the inhabitants except if she wishes to relinquish it. This is why one should think twice before starting a war. Israel never wanted to go to war after the United Nations gave them their new land, the countries around them brought war to them. And when they fought it and won, the lands conquered became theirs. Anyways, I need to read more history. I love your analysis anyways. Happy Sunday |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by ViceGovernor: 11:26am On Jan 28, 2024 |
FiftyFifty:If countries are coming to the aid of Israel it is simply because they have goodwill. Remind us again why even the muslims are avoiding Palestine like the black plague. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Idaytesj29(m): 11:49am On Jan 28, 2024 |
AuthorMan:Happy Sunday to you to my brother, you are an intelligent 🧠 person and emotionally balanced. I enjoyed your broad intelligent analysis as well |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by adebowales: 12:02pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
themanderon:when both side are equally armed with almost the same weapons, they would definitely come out. They deserve praise for the blow they have dealt to IDF soldiers despite not having any form of air defense, no tank or Air Force and still able to inflict casualties on the idf side |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Gainman: 12:23pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
CoronaVirusPro:hope u remember Saudi Arabia has lifted ban on alcohol. What will you do now |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Gainman: 12:25pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
FiftyFifty:I can see u supported those involved in this attack. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Gainman: 12:30pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
Edusouls:the word propaganda has become Muslim common grammar on nairaland now. We will never see u people condemning terrorism. Truth is far from you people |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Gainman: 12:31pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
olayinka63:I gues kids always talk like this. |
| Re: US Halts Funds for UN Body Over Staff involved in October 7 Hamas attack by Gainman: 12:39pm On Jan 28, 2024 |
FiftyFifty:if not because of united state cautioning Isreal. Israel would have level the whole Palestine. Dat is what u don't know |
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Axis powers angry about the ICJ ruling, have suspended funding to the UNRWA. I think given the suffering of just regular civilians this a cruel and cynical move. They created a prison camp where trade, industry, and economic independence is impossible for people.