UNDP Funds Palestinian Political Campaign

[caitlyn]

UNDP Funds Palestinian Political Campaign
Tuesday, August 16, 2005

GAZA — The Gaza Strip (search) is one of the poorest, most overpopulated areas in the world with 1.4 million Palestinians crammed into a 100-square-mile area. With 50 percent unemployment, the vast majority of Gazans live below a poverty line of $2 a day.

It's exactly the kind of situation that the United Nations Development Program was set up to deal with, and the U.N. is spending millions of dollars there every year.

But FOX News has discovered that not all that cash is going to alleviate poverty. Instead, some of it is funding a Palestinian political campaign under the slogan, "Today Gaza, tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem."

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For the record, I only use Fox News, which I detest, when they cover a legitimate story that nobody else picks up. The full article is here.

[papau]

1. a T-shirt saying, "Today Gaza. Tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem."

OK - that West bank idea is per UN resolution - but Jerusalem is only to be negotiated - it does not say it goes to the Palestinians -

so I guess it is a poorly worded T shirt - or a UN bias - and bias seems more likely.

[caitlyn]

2. Actually, according to UN Resolutions 242 and 338...

...calls for Israel to have "secure and defensible borders" to be agreed upon by the parties. Lord Caradon, British ambassador in 1967 and one of the authors of 242, called the 1949 armistice lie (pre-1967 borders) "unacceptable" precisely because they could be neither secure nor defensible.

At Taba in late 2000 we got a good look at what a just solution would be. It would involve land swaps: Israel keeps a small percentage of the West Bank (roughly 3%) where most of the settlers live and in return gives a similar amount of land from pre-1967 Israel to the Palestinians.

Yeah, it's bias. The funds were never supposed to go for propaganda.

[Coastie for Truth]

3. About as counter productive

as holding JP Morgan-Chase and divesting Citibank to encourage Palestinian entrepreneurship.

[barb162]

4. The UN alleviating poverty is one thing; they should make sure

they know where the money is going and it shouldn't be political campaigns