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      I don’t think that any government funds anything for ideological reasons. It’s always about influence and power.

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        Don’t get me wrong, I not saying that it’s good, I just answering the question.

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        I’d like a secondary source on that which isn’t from a Tennessee Republican parroting an NGO that is well known as a pro-Israeli lobbying group.

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          Even if it’s true, they aren’t the ones who are committing genocide right now and we aren’t sending money to them either.

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        Do you ask yourself sometimes if you are being downvoted for your opinion or because the source you linked is garbage? The Gazans government is under the rule of Hamas. So of course UNRWA are talking to “Hamas” if you define Hamas as the party ruling Gaza with no elections. This inflation of Hamas and the Qassam Brigades is quite worrisome, not to mention misguided and meant to misguide others. In many other discussions, people mean Hamas as in the milotary branch of it, which is fine, but you don’t here. The “Hamas” members thtt UNWRA works with are doctors, civil servants, nurses, etc.

        If you lived in Gaza and wanted to make a difference or work a government job, what options do you have? And does that make you a terrorist or militant? It’s like saying Israelis deserve to die because Bibi is a piece of shit and they work under his governmental rule.

        Often I wonder if people reaf the crap they link to, but that link is basically saying “UNWRA does its best to not associate with miltaynt groups, sends lists to Israel to vet, yet they totally do support the terrorists, okay?? Evidence? The lack of evidence is the evidence!”

        Like gtfo of here /: what sort of crap is that? 😬

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    Downpunxx will be here any minute to let us know that the Hamas was stockpiling weapons under the UN headquarters, using them as human shields, and the UN workers in that building were complicit and happy to let them do so.

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      I blocked them a bit ago. Lemmy and kbin are much nicer places without them. Can’t believe they haven’t been banned yet.

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        I’ll eventually do the same, but I have to admit that I find witnessing their trolling to be more entertaining than blocking them for now.

        I’m not sure they’ve done anything bannable. They have horrible opinions that I strongly disagree with, but I don’t remember seeing anything worse than that.

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          I’ve seen them cast some fairly vile aspirations on anyone disagreeing with their pro-Israel stances. I don’t know what gets people banned from where but the astro-turfing of nearly the same post in every vaguely-political thread should qualify.

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        I don’t think he should be banned, but yeah blocking him is the way to go.

        That’s what the feature is there for.