Today’s quote comes to us from Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Yechiel Leiter.
As the world coalesces around the claim that Israel is starving Gazans, Ambassador Leiter claims that, instead of trying to insure the food went to hungry Gazans, the UN had no problem with hamas taking that food for its own use instead.
Here, from Patrick Djordjevic’s article for News Nation, via msn.com, are Yechiel Leiter’s exact words:
“Israel is doing everything it possibly can. The problem is our efforts are being blocked by the United Nations.
“The U.N. is responsible for any hunger that exists right now in Gaza. We are sitting on hundreds and perhaps thousands of trucks already ready to enter into Gaza.
“If we continue to turn over food to Hamas, which the U.N. is doing, it means that we prolong the war. It means that Hamas becomes strengthened. It means that they can hire more terrorists. It means they continue to control the civilian population. It means that they control Gaza.”
“If MS-13 took over a neighborhood in the United States and you had to fight MS-13 from their domination of a neighborhood, would you feed them?”
Quite an accusation. But does it have any validity?
Well, read this commentary from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) and decide for yourself:
UN Refuses to Cooperatively Distribute Aid as Reported Hunger Grows in Gaza
Latest Developments
- UN Rejects Help to Deliver Aid to Gazans: The United Nations rejected offers by the U.S.- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to Gazan civilians that is sitting undelivered inside the Gaza Strip despite the United Nations’ own warnings about widespread hunger. “We’ve been sounding the alarm for weeks on the need for more aid in Gaza while we’ve seen aid by the UN and other organizations being piled near the borders but not being delivered,” GHF Interim Director John Acree said. UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric rejected the offer on July 23, accusing the GHF of setting up operations that “increase the risk of people [being] shot at or trampled while trying to get food.”
- Hundreds of Truckloads of Undelivered Aid: The IDF hosted dozens of international journalists at the Kerem Shalom crossing in Gaza on July 24, presenting what it said were over 800 truckloads of humanitarian aid not yet delivered by the United Nations. The IDF held the event after international aid organizations accused the Israeli government of conducting a “siege” against the Gazan people. “The UN needs to stop pointing fingers and start doing its job,” the Israeli Foreign Ministry stated.
- Hamas Profited From Aid: The Washington Post reported on July 21 that Hamas had profited by hiking prices on aid that the terrorist organization had commandeered and was “counting on the humanitarian crisis to bring the war to an end.” The article cited a Western official who emphasized that Hamas was “pushing for” a return to the UN-based aid distribution system, rather than relying on the GHF, because Hamas has “guys in all of the [aid] warehouses.” On July 23, Hamas launched a rocket toward a GHF aid facility and has previously threatened, attacked, and murdered its workers.
That tells me a lot.
It also gives me my reason to award Yechiel Leiter Quote Of The Day honors for speaking reality to the United Nations, which continues its long-time effort to aid and abet international Israel hatred to a world that, increasingly, is more than happy to go along with the UN’s effort.
“Never again”? There are almost 58 centuries of evidence to prove that there is always an again.
