[Salon] Interview of UNRWA Spokesman Chris Gunness

FM: John Whitbeck

Transmitted below is a link to a MUST-WATCH 8-minute interview this morning of former UNRWA spokesman and distinguished recipient Chris Gunness regarding yesterday's US veto of yet another UN Security Council resolution and the ultra-Orwellian "Gaza Humanitarian Foundation".

Notably, Chris says: "The Israeli-American aid operation has turned Gaza into a human abattoir, where starving civilians are herded like animals into fenced-off pens and in the process are slaughtered like cattle. This is akin to some of the darkest periods of human history, where industrial death factories have been used against innocent women and children who were led like lambs to the slaughter".

https://mediaview.aljazeera.com/video/3BuNxGhQUA

It should also be noted -- but won't be by Western politicians or mainstream media -- that the fundamental terms of the UN Security Council resolution supported yesterday by 14 council member states (an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire in Gaza, the release of all Israeli captives held in Gaza and the unrestricted flow of humanitarain aid to Gaza) is a perfect match for the Hamas position in the perpetual ceasefire negotiations being "mediated" by the US government.

It should be further noted -- but won't be by Western politicians or mainstream media -- that the vision for a permanent peace to which virtually all the world's governments subscribe, at least rhetorically (two states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in 78% and 22% of historical Palestine, respectively), is the vision subscribed to not only by the Fatah-led Palestinian Authority but also by Hamas, subject only, in Hamas's case, to the final peace terms being approved by the Palestinian people in a referendum.

It is also worth recalling that, in the most recent Palestinian parliamentary elections, hailed at the time as the most democratic elections ever held in the Arab world, Hamas won a majority of seats in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Finally, it should be recalled that the International Court of Justice has recently found the Israeli occupation of the State of Palestine (the 22% of historical Palestine occupied in 1967) to be unlawful and declared that it must end as rapidly as possible and that international law explicitly allows resistance, including armed resistance, to unlawful military occupations.

In these circumstances, one may legitimately wonder why virtually no government (including Arab governments) dares to dispute, at least publicly, the genocide-justifying Israeli-American argument that Hamas must be disarmed and destroyed.