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10:43 - Nails in the coffin
http://www.yourish.com/archives/2004/may30-june5_2004.html#2004053102
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In case I ever feel a twinge of sympathy for or desire to re-acknowledge the credibility of the UN, all I have to do is read the news.
Israeli Channel Ten television broadcast video footage this week showing armed Palestinians using UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency) ambulances to flee Israeli forces operating in the Gaza Strip.
The television report, filmed in Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood on May 11, on the same night the first IDF armored personnel carrier was destroyed, killing six Israeli soldiers, clearly showed armed Palestinians boarding a UN-marked ambulance with a UN flag, and fleeing the scene.
The Channel Ten reporter stressed that this was not a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance, known to have transported armed Palestinians in the past, but rather a supposedly neutral ambulance of the UN.
Not that Red Crescent ambulances transporting terrorists ought to be looked at with any less horror. But remember that this comes after UNRWA commissioner Peter Hansen demanded that Israel apologize for the "damaging and baseless allegations" that this is what internationally-protected UN ambulance drivers do under the fluttering blue laurels.
They're on the other side. Get them the hell out of Manhattan.
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Brian Tiemann
