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negidius | 2 years ago

Sorry, that should have been 0.1%.

The claim about 10% doesn't seem to say much. What does it mean exactly for someone to be a "Hamas/PIJ operative"? Has UNRWA been told who these people are and what they have done? I suspect we will eventually find out if there was any truth behind the allegations against the 12 (or 13) specific people accused of involvement in the attack, but I doubt we will ever learn anything about the 10%. The 50% is completely meaningless. People are responsible for their own individual actions, not those of their family members.

My question remains, are UNRWA employees more likely to have been involved in or associated with atrocities than the average person in the region? Involvement and association doesn't necessarily mean that they personally committed those atrocities. How does this compare with the average Palestinian or Israeli? Should I boycott an Israeli company if 0.1% of their employees were involved in the commission of war crimes or other atrocities in the IDF, even if they were fired/suspended when the accusation came to light, and no one seems to be able to suggest what they should have done differently to avoid hiring them?

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gryzzly|2 years ago

so do you think that in a family where father is launching rockets indiscriminately at people, the mom will be teaching children about coexistance and building a peace loving community?

cykros|2 years ago

When you're facing an illegal occupation, firing rockets back is called resistance, and there's a reason it is widely recognized as legitimate.

As for how indiscriminate it is, hard to take seriously from someone who's defending a regime that has actively carpet bombed cities for the past 4 months.

gryzzly|2 years ago

I don’t care what individuals boycott. I care about hundreds of millions of euros going for support of terrorism.

You know what’s relief? Medicine, food, re-settling.

You know what’s not relief? Teaching children to martyr for the profit of some disgusting Putin/Ayatollah friends.