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    That headline is a lie bordering on gross journalistic malpractice and you’d know if you’d actually have kept reading rather than just automatically trust the opinion of a fiercely pro-Israel outlet.

    a dossier provided to the United States government that details Israel’s claims

    Claims, not evidence

    The accusations are contained in a dossier provided to the United States government that details Israel’s claims against a dozen employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency who, it says

    Accusations and “Israel’s government says” aren’t evidence either.

    The accusations are what prompted eight countries, including the United States, to suspend some aid payment to the UNRWA

    Again, accusations, not evidence. Nothing has been proven as

    U.N.’s Office of Internal Oversight Services was still investigating.

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      These accusations seemed credible enough for the US and many other countries to withdraw funding so it seems they are more than mere accusations. Also funny that you claim journalistic malpractice since the NYT uncritically amplified claims that Israel bombed a hospital and killed hundreds early in the war even when these claims were wild right off the bat and turned out to be competely false… So I guess at the very least they do malpractice across political lines.

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        These accusations seemed credible enough for the US and many other countries to withdraw funding

        Because AIPAC and other pressure groups force the majority of US politicians to pretend that the Israeli government is automatically right about everything and that to say otherwise is to support Hamas.

        Meanwhile, the other countries are following along because they don’t want to get on the bad side of the US government.

        so it seems they are more than mere accusations

        No, that doesn’t follow at all. Governments sometimes act rashly with no evidentiary basis. Sometimes governments do things because other governments doing it makes them feel pressure to go along. This is an egregious example of both and likely to cost thousands of innocent civilian lives.

        the NYT uncritically amplified claims that Israel bombed a hospital and killed hundreds early in the war

        I guarantee you they didn’t. They treat the Israeli government like they treat cops: justified by default no matter what.

        these claims were wild right off the bat and turned out to be competely false

        Actually turned out to be an IDF rocket accidentally hitting the hospital. Given their history of doing EXACTLY THE SAME THING and then lying about it, suspecting the IDF of bombing a hospital on purpose is hardly “wild”.

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            Claims linked person isn’t a partisan hack, linked person readily declares they’re a newsmax commentator, an incredibly partisan organisation.

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            Sorry, I never click on random YouTube links from people obviously arguing in bad faith or from a position of immense bias. What they watch on YouTube tends to match what they say.

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        seems

        By your own word they’re not really credible. If they were you wouldn’t have had to say this.

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          I’ve not gone through the intelligence Israel provided on UNRWA but the people who have withdrew their funding over it and UNRWA firing people left right and central to do damage control. Therefore I say “seem”. I qualify these things because I’m not running around with ideological blinders that force me to try and discredit everything that doesn’t fit my very narrow worldview through nitpicks like “you said seem lol”

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            I pay people I can trust to sift through it for me. If you haven’t gone through the intelligence, you should realize that withdrawn funding is not evidence of anything. I’m not the one wearing ideological blinders here.