{"id":185908,"date":"2014-07-17T20:36:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/17\/and-back-in-the-middle-east-we-have-a-captain-renault-moment\/"},"modified":"2014-07-17T20:36:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-18T01:36:00","slug":"and-back-in-the-middle-east-we-have-a-captain-renault-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/07\/17\/and-back-in-the-middle-east-we-have-a-captain-renault-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"And Back in the Middle East, We Have a Captain Renault Moment\u2026\u2026\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 280px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\" width=\"270\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is shocked to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jul\/17\/unrwa-investigating-20-rockets-empty-gaza-school-palestinian\">find 20 rockets in one of their schools in Gaza<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is investigating the discovery of 20 rockets hidden in one of its vacant schools in the Gaza Strip. The UNRWA condemned the incident as a &#8220;flagrant violation&#8221; of international law, adding that the rockets had been removed and that the relevant parties had been informed.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Israel regularly accuses Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza of using civilian installations to store and rockets, including during the current conflict, which began on 8 July.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find the protestations of UNRWA to ring hollow.<\/p>\n<p>While I understand that the agency needs to maintain good a relationship with the authorities in Gaza in order to effectively provide services, this sort of behavior has been the rule, not the exception, with UNRWA for nearly 70 years.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here! The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is shocked to find 20 rockets in one of their schools in Gaza: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees is investigating the discovery of 20 rockets hidden in one of its vacant schools in the Gaza Strip. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1052,986,1098],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes","category-middle-east","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}