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The Owen Jones Podcast

Israel's Most LETHAL Lie Falls Apart - But Leave Catastrophic Impact

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2024

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Israel's claims about Gaza's main humanitarian agency fall apart - but leave a catastrophic human impact.

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0:00.0

Of all the lies peddled by the Israeli state since this horror began, this one has proven the most murderous.

0:07.1

Indeed, it has been a key plank of what makes this a genocidal campaign against Gaza.

0:13.6

Now, cast your mind back to January

0:15.8

when the International Court of Justice,

0:17.4

that's the world's highest court,

0:19.1

placed Israel on trial for alleged genocide,

0:22.1

declaring it to be a plausible case.

0:24.7

Now at the exact same time, just coincidentally, a story driven by the Israeli state

0:28.9

knocks that news from the headlines.

0:31.4

It centered on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency of

0:34.2

Palestine refugees in the near east, better known by a acronym UNRRA. Founded in

0:40.0

1949 shortly after the foundation of Israel it was charged with the welfare

0:44.6

of the hundreds of thousands of palisinger refugees driven from their homes in the

0:48.9

so-called NACPA or catastrophe the term for this act of ethnic cleansing.

0:54.2

It continued to look after those refugees and their descendants,

0:57.2

and indeed new refugees driven from their homes

0:59.2

in subsequent acts of ethnic cleansing,

1:01.8

orchestrated by Israel, not least in 1967.

1:05.1

And today it's got around 30,000 employees operating in Jordan, in Lebanon, in Syria, in the

1:11.7

West Bank, and of course Gaza, working with around 6 million registered

1:16.4

Palestinian refugees.

1:18.2

In Gaza, it's the main humanitarian agency, with around 13,000 employees running schools and healthcare. an defined by mass indiscriminate bombing, the destruction of health care,

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