The Teeny, Tiny Problem With the UN Smack Talking Israel About Aid to Gaza

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The problem is the United Nations being knee deep in the Hamas aid-looting and profit-boosting redistribution cycle. 

Sadly for the UN, the world is slowly but surely finding out about it despite all the UN's screeching efforts to paint the Israelis as, at best, obstructive and at worst, the evil villains in the 'But Gazans are starving' Pallywood saga.

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Completely oblivious to the furor surrounding aid trucks and food deliveries, Hamas auxiliaries are still proudly producing and uploading their highway robbery videos.

Accompanied by quite a snappy background tune, you see weapon-waving, masked operatives aboard hijacked aid trucks, jauntily mugging for the camera, as their accomplices whiz on by on the side roads alongside the speeding trucks.

The production values that the stolen aid buys are quite high. I'm sure it makes every little boy watching want to be a hijacker.

It seems like everyone has a camera and an angle to play.

In the meantime, there's buttloads of food piling up waiting to be loaded on UN trucks and delivered to those starving Palestinians, regardless of what the UN is claiming.

So it's not a question of aid getting in, apparently. Videos of mountains of food already staged inside Gaza are everywhere.

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Getting it where it's needed is the UN's part of the bargain and the part they don't want to discuss, because they seem to be absolutely miserable at managing any aspect of it.

Or..and here's where it gets tricksy...are they complicit in it not reaching those who need it?

To my admittedly cynical eye, the numbers tell a story of UN graft, corruption, and continuing cooperation with the butchers in Hamas.

What do you think?

Let me get those up where you can see them, and they are the UN's official numbers for this past June.

The UN had 1090 trucks loaded and sent into Gaza. 47 deliveries were made where they were meant to go.

Here's UN Aid Chief Tom Fletcher lying to Piers Morgan that the 'vast, VAST majority of the aid that we get in gets to civilians...'

This is a joke and the UN is a fraud.

But the American media is only too willing to lap up the lies and smother the truth.

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Das Bild tracked down and exposed a Turkish photographer providing the fuel for the 'starving children of Gaza' fires being stoked by the NYT and others, and used to villify any alternative relief efforts.

This Gaza photographer stages Hamas propaganda

Emaciated children, desperate mothers, and people begging for food with empty pots: These photos from Gaza are circulating around the world. They move millions – and influence politics worldwide.

But research by the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” is now calling these very images into question: Are some of the pictures from Gaza deliberately staged – and part of a propaganda strategy by Hamas terrorists?

The hunger is (almost always) real – but the images are often not quite so. A recently widely circulated photo showed desperate people on a truck in front of a food distribution point. Opposite them: photographer Anas Zayed Fteiha, a freelance "journalist" commissioned by the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

People wave their pots and shortly thereafter receive food. BUT: Photographer Fteiha apparently isn't sharing the pictures and hasn't responded to BILD's request to reveal what photos he took there.

Potential problem: The scene, captured by other photographers as well, shows mostly adult men waiting for food – and getting it.

Doesn't Fteiha have any use for this?

His photos—published by "Stern" and "New York Magazine," CNN and the BBC, Deutschlandfunk, "Junge Welt," and even BILD—prefer to depict chaos and destruction. And above all, children, mothers, and suffering in close-ups and with perfect lighting.

...Hamas controls all images

The result: In the Gaza Strip, almost exclusively Palestinian photographers are now taking photographs – quite a few with Hamas connections. Historian and photography expert Gerhard Paul told the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "In southern Gaza, Hamas controls 100 percent of image production." The goal: to generate sympathy in the West and stir up anger against Israel.

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On average, enough aid has gone into Gaza since the beginning of the war for 3000 calories per day per person.

Where has it gone?

If you ask a local, they'll tell you if they don't think anyone is listening.

Until they do something about reporting the truth about Hamas...

...and those who collaborate with them, like the UNRWA, nudged along with nearly nightly reports from outlets like the CBS Evening News...

...nothing is going to change the narrative. Even with the UN's own figures admitting it.

Those piles of aid will just keep stacking higher in the sun.

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