UNRWA Up For Nobel Peace Prize?

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By this point, you are likely familiar with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)which is ostensibly a Palestinian refugee agency seeking to provide safety and shelter to displaced Palestinians who have been forced to flee their homes amid the fighting in the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, along with other terrorist networks associated with Iran. The group gained all of the wrong sort of attention when it came to light that some of its members were also directly involved in the October 7, 2023 terror attacks on Israel. So would it surprise you to learn that the UNRWA is potentially being considered for a Nobel Peace Prize? I suppose nothing should shock us all that much these days but given this group's recent history of violence and disruption aimed toward the Jewish people, this seems like a bridge too far even for the heavily partisan actors in charge of the Nobel Prize. (Just the News)

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The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, (UNRWA), which is the Palestinian refugee agency, is potentially being considered for a Nobel Peace Prize, experts say. 

Other groups being considered include the International Court of Justice and UN chief Antonio Guterres, according to Arab News.

“UNRWA could be one such candidate," Henrik Urdal, director of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, said in an interview with Reuters. "They’re doing extremely important work for civilian Palestinians that experience the sufferings of the war in Gaza."

As noted above, the UNRWA isn't the only group in this category being considered for such an honor. Also on the potential list are the International Court of Justice and UN chief Antonio Guterres. Make no mistake about it... these are all bad actors who are taking sides and they are not supporting Israel, even though Israel is the country that was attacked one year ago. If the nomination were to happen, it would presumably be for their "extremely important work for civilian Palestinians suffering from the war in Gaza."

No nominations have officially been made yet. Thus far, these are just the speculations of the Peace Research Institute Oslo, a notoriously pro-Hamas, anti-Israel organization representing the globalists of Western Europe. But they carry significant weight in these discussions, representing yet another way in which Israel is fighting a battle on many fronts, not all of them involving direct combat. They are seeking revenge for the loss of some key players, including Fateh al-Sharif. He was found to be one of the top leaders in Hamas, responsible for the deaths of many Jews. But he was also supposedly a UNRWA "teacher" at the same time.

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Intelligence reports have concluded that at least 12 employees of UNRWA were connected to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, plus around 10% of its Gaza staff of 12,000 have ties to Islamist militant groups. What sort of message would be sent by posthumously awarding a peace prize to one of the very terrorists who were responsible for kicking off this war to begin with? I would say that this process is turning the entire Nobel Prize system into a sad joke, but that ship clearly sailed long ago. 

All of this is simply one more sad reminder that we need to move on past these collective fantasies about the United Nations and allow Israel the space, time, and resources it needs to finish the war that Hamas and Iran's other terrorist proxy groups began last year. That means that the Biden administration needs to stop playing footsie with the bad guys and deliver all of the military aid that Israel requires. Israel has nothing to apologize for and neither do we. 

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Ed Morrissey 10:00 PM | November 07, 2024
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