This is my week for coming up with odd associations, I know. But bear with me.
I was reading this article in today's Jerusalem Post. It's about the documented use of UNRWA facilities for terrorist operations and it kind of makes me sick. For instance, the report stated that Muhammad Ali Hassan, who was arrested in February, used an UNRWA school near Nablus for target practice and to store ammunition. The report also documented the use of a UNRWA club in the Jabalya refugee camp and a social club in the El Aroub refugee camp as meeting points for Tanzim members. In addition, the report stated that numerous UNRWA schools were used to hide suspected terrorists. According to the report, Nidal Nazal, an UNRWA ambulance driver arrested in July, admitted that his ambulance was used to transport ammunition between terror cells. Other detainees admitted that UNRWA vehicles were used by terrorists on their way to attacks.The report stated that a number of Palestinians who have been arrested say that they have used UNRWA facilities and vehicles to plan and carry out attacks.
Several years ago, there was an episode of The X-Files called Unruhe. And the connection isn't only homophonic. The show was about a guy who performs crude lobotomies on young women with an ice pick in order to rid them of what he believes to be their personal demons -- their "unrest" or "trouble," as the word unruhe was translated from the German. Of course, the demons he was trying to slay were all his own. In the end, he's put out of his misery.
The use of UNWRA resources by bloodthirsty genocidal terrorists is disgusting, though not surprising. But it's only through UNWRA's unabashed complicity that such abuse can continue. Whatever twisted perception of the "good" may be motivating them, it's way past time that UNWRA was put out of its misery -- and ours.
