Knesset's New Law Long-Time Coming, Preventing UNESCO FROM Aiding/ Abetting Hamas In Israel OR Judea/Samaria

 Nadene Goldfoot                                                     

Israel's single chamber parliament is called the Knesset, created in 1949.  It has 120 seats which are filled by proportional representation based on the total vote in the country.  All men and women with Israel citizenship above the age of 18, have the right to vote.  Candidates for election must be above the age of 25.  In 1966, it moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.  

We must remember that the state of Israel was proclaimed by the Palestine Jewish authorities on May 14, 1948, on the eve of the day Great Britain relinquished its control.  When the Arab armies invaded Israel, no concrete help was afforded by the UN in implementing its resolution but UN mediators negotiated the subsequent cease fire and armistice agreements supervised by a Truce Supervision Organization with headquarters in Jerusalem.  Our tsuris (problems)  with Palestinians has gone on for a long time!  

Israel has finally done what it should have done a long time ago!  Israel’s Knesset has approved a law banning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine from operating inside Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The U.N. agency, known as UNRWA, is tasked with providing food, healthcare and social services to Palestinians and is a critical lifeline to Gaza’s surviving 2.3 million residents who, they say,  face widespread famine and malnutrition due to (Israel’s unrelenting, yearlong assault). They can't even come out and admit that this has happened since October 7, 2023, when Israel suffered a horrible surprise attack by Palestinians who maliciously slaughtered young dancing Israelis with their friends at the end of a Jewish holiday.  Israel's unrelenting, yearlong assault, my eye!  Finally, after putting up with the PLO who Hamas has replaced, of their vicious attacks, Israel is rebelling against the UN who has aided and abetted the Palestinians in many ways.  UNRWA has gotten away with murder because they have operated under the UN.                                

Sharren Haskel, 40,  of the Likud Party was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to a Jewish family, the middle of three sisters. Her father, Amir, was born in Israel, and is from a family of Palmach veterans from moshav Tzofit. Her mother, Fabienne, was born in Morocco.   She is a member of the Knesset for the National Unity Party, having previously served as a member of Likud and for New Hope. When she was first elected, she was the youngest member of Likud and the second youngest member of the 20th Knesset.

The ban on UNRWA was approved in a 92-10 vote with the full support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party. Israeli lawmaker Sharren Haskel co-authored the legislation.  UNRWA hasn't done a thing to bring back the over 200 Israeli hostages that Hamas has held nor have they taken steps to have Hamas end their attack on Israel.  

 However, Israel claims that the agency of UNRWA has ties to Hamas, the militant group Israel is battling in Gaza.  🎧 Israel is saying that some Palestinian UNRWA staffers took part in the Oct. 7 attack, NPR’s Daniel Estrin tells Up First. Israel claimed to have discovered a Hamas command center located directly beneath UNRWA's headquarters in Gaza. The United Nations has warned that implementing a ban could have devastating consequences, while the U.S. State Department emphasized that UNRWA plays an irreplaceable role in Gaza. The U.S. has cautioned Israel in a letter that if it proceeds with this plan, there could be repercussions under U.S. law, which could include withholding weapons and military aid to Israel.  Isn't that what "friends" are for?  It would have been nice if the USA patted Israel on the back and said something like, We admire you for the gumption of speaking up!  And, "everybody figured a long time ago that they were helping out Hamas ! " 

The latest is that Iraq has gone to the UN complaining of Israel using their air-space in bombing Iran's military sites that produce missiles that have attacked Israel recently.  I do believe they have paved the way to let the UN hear of our complaints against terrorism.  

After the knesset outlawed UNRWA, (and they called the knesset "the Parliament"  NBC came up with this magnified report:  More than 90 people, including 20 children, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residential building in Gaza early Tuesday, local officials said, the deadliest attack in months as it wages a renewed assault on the north of the Palestinian enclave.  They added that it was in a move that could throttle the supply of medicine, food and education in the devastated territory. Well, I have news for NBC.  Hamas steals the shipment of medicine and food and sells it to the Palestinians at very very high prices, so rich come, rich are served.  And as for education, all along since the beginning of their organization they have taught children anti-Semitic slogans and a make-believe history against Jews.  

"In the U.S., the first Jewish member of the House of Representatives was David Levy Yulee in 1845 who was also the first Jewish senator and was from Florida.  "Yulee was born on the island of St. Thomas, then under British control, to a Sephardic Jewish family; his father was a trader from Morocco and his mother, also of Sephardi descent, was born in Sint Eustatius and raised in St. Thomas.  So, Trump;  look at this Jewish Latino, so close to Puerto Rico, and take back those anti-Semitic comments !  

Resource:

The New Standard Jewish Encyclopedia

TV News

https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/29/headlines/israeli_lawmakers_ban_un_aid_agency_for_palestinian_refugees

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/29/g-s1-30605/up-first-newsletter-trump-campaign-speeches-israel-unrwa