Okay, on to our next question. Oh, this is one I get a lot. Why is the Israeli government

refusing to work with UNRWA, the major UN agency that works with Palestinians? I have been asked

this question hundreds of times online in person. People hear

that the Israelis are very angry about it, very upset about it. Somebody maybe heard about it,

not Wilf's work, or read her book. And the question comes up again and again. This is an agency

that delivers a tremendous amount of aid, provides thousands and thousands of teachers to schools,

and, for example, in Gaza. What is so bad about it? What is so wrong about it? What's so

difficult in working with it? The Israelis, by the way, have worked with every aid agency,

every kind of aid agency. There's sometimes been clashes, sometimes been tensions,

but the Israelis welcome most aid agencies.

So what is wrong with UNRWA? There are basically three problems with UNRWA from the Israeli

perspective. And the ones that make all the news, that catch all the attention, they're not the

important ones. For example, direct complicity with terrorism.

Israeli intelligence has argued, has claimed, has found evidence for at least 12 and

possibly the latest report was 19 UNRRA employees in Gaza who directly participated in the October 7 massacre. This is a terrible thing

to discover, of course, that a U.N. aid agency employee took part in a literal massacre. And the

UN's own oversight office actually fired nine of them because they found evidence that they

may have been involved.

So something about those Israeli claims is correct. I suspect everything about those

Israeli claims is correct, if only because it's limited to 19 people. Half of them, the UN did

actually agree and fire. Now, here's the thing. Unra has something like 13,000 employees in Gaza. So the argument that

19 of them might have taken part in this Hamas invasion of Israel, it's splashy, it's huge,

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