Another UN Scandal
How many has it been now? First Oil-For-Food, then bribing french/russian/german delegates, now funding Palestinian terrorist groups. There is no need for the United Nations any more - face it, corruption has made the UN fail.
The worst part is that things like this are not published in the major papers, or at least nowhere near the front pages. They would rather publish commentaries about Bush being a war criminal then the truth about how worthless the United Nations are.
In 2003 and 2004, the Israel Defense Forces captured documentation showing how the U.N. Development Program was regularly funding two Hamas front organizations: the Tulkarm Charity Committee and the Jenin District Committee for Charitable Funds. The donations varied — sometimes $4,000 and sometimes $10,000. Receipts and even copies of thank-you notes to UNDP were discovered. The U.N. should have exercised considerable caution with transfers of this sort, considering that in 2002, Yasser Arafat’s Fatah movement described Jenin as “the capital of the suicide bombers.” Nonetheless, one might ask, how was the U.N. to know that these were actually Hamas front groups?
1 comment January 19th, 2005