Once again, the UN is demanding that Jews contribute to their own destruction.
I particularly like this insistence by John Ging that there’s no way, really, no way in hell, that the concrete and iron rods would be diverted by Hamas and turned into tunnels and rockets. No way.
“We account for every sack of flour and we can equally account for every bag of cement,” he said. “It’s just a matter of political will to move forward on this issue. We’d like to get on with the job, and then be held accountable on whether we are achieving it or not.”
All right, John. Kindly explain this Reuters video, taken years ago, of Palestinian terrorists in Gaza using UN ambulances to escape from the IDF.
You don’t get to be the ones accountable for Israeli deaths. That would be the Israelis themselves, who have the responsibility to protect their citizens. Urge away, UN and NGOs. Just don’t issue the dreaded strongly-worded statement.
Geez, I can’t understand why the Israelis don’t trust the UN.
http://archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/meast/07/06/mideast.tape/index.html
Oh.
Appreciate your posting this video, and note that it’s still popping up around the intertubes.
I was the one responsible for going over to Reuters’ Jerusalem bureau, and sitting with an editor there to get those clips (part of much longer raw tape segments).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1145059/posts
“‘A Reuters representative and I sat together early Friday morning May 8th at their Jerusalem bureau to edit down several segments of the longer un-edited material,’ writes Dave Bender, Senior Editor of Access Middle East. ‘The material left out, in order to keep the file size minimal, consisted of random similar scenes of armed and unarmed Palestinians thronging the street seen in the clip. This accounts for the somewhat jumpy cuts. However, nothing relevant has been deleted or distorted from this version,’ adds Bender.”
Incidentally, the Reuters individual sitting with me to note the cuts and rip me a copy at the time, seemed either indifferent or unaware of the significance of content in question:
The UN supposedly held an investigation, but obfuscated and blustered something over the story weeks later. I’m still looking for articles on officials quoted in the UN final statement… pls let me know if you come up with something.
Btw – Michelle Malkin, writing in the Jewish World Review, quoted my former director about US media [non] coverage of the film:
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michelle/malkin_ambulances_for_terrorists.php3
“AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, posted the video (shot by a Reuters TV cameraman) on its Web site last week. To date, Access Middle East managing director Richard Bardenstein in Israel informs me, not a single U.S. television news station has expressed interest in showing the footage to American viewers.”
I’ve seen quotes saying that it did air on U.S. tv at some point, though.
Thanks,
Dave