UNICEF Israel head condemns use of child terrorists

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A rare admission of an old problem, which goes to show the degeneracy of the UN, many NGO's, and the media for deliberately ignoring & censoring this depravity the past few decades.

Encouraging children to carry out acts of terror is 'unadulterated child abuse,' says head of UN agency in Israel.

...."The exposure of these two children to the type and intensity of incitement and violence that would lead to this kind of act is unadulterated child abuse," Cline told Arutz Sheva. "Every child is to be protected from exposure to violence. Every child. It is their right, and our responsibility."

UNICEF's main objectives are to fight for the rights and safety of children globally - rights which Cline lamented are being denied to children who are brainwashed by their own religious and political leadership.

"The two girls involved in today’s incident have had their childhood taken from them, have had their lives ruined, by those who have facilitated the acceptance of such behavior.

"No child is to be used as a tool for terror."

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207546#.VrZdizYrK1u

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1. The person making this "admission" represents Israel for UNICEF

so in reality it is mostly Israeli governmental opinion from settler news

[shira]

6. Believe what you wish. I don't see the point of denying reality. n/t

[Little Tich]

2. Some dirt on Jonny Cline:

Revealed – the UK charity facilitating donations to Israeli settlements
Source: benwhite.org.uk/
by Ben White on September 25, 2015

A UK charity is acting as a conduit for donations to Israeli settlements in the West Bank, it has been revealed, prompting calls for action from the Charity Commission.

UK Toremet receives donations on behalf of what it calls ‘recipient agencies’, organisations or charities in Israel and elsewhere, who donors wish to support.

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UK Toremet also facilitates donations to a number of Israel advocacy organisations, such as UN Watch, The Israel Project, and Honest Reporting.

Recipient agency Shurat HaDin, meanwhile, uses courts around the world “to go on the legal offensive” against those it perceives to be “Israel’s enemies.” Its director has “privately admitted to taking direction from the Israeli government over which cases to pursue.”

Asked to comment, Cline said the projects these organisations have asked to have supported through UK Toremet “are in the areas of media monitoring, legal research, education and human rights, all of which are charitable activity.”

The aim of UK Toremet is “promoting the culture of philanthropy in the UK by facilitating the fulfilment of aims deemed charitable by British law, in the UK and abroad.” The charity “facilitate[s] tax-efficient online donations to good causes around the world”, making it “easier to gift money to charities outside the UK by facilitating a UK tax receipt and Gift Aid qualification.”

Serving as “a conduit for charitable donations”, UK Toremet announced last year that it had distributed over £1 million in its first three years of operation, and represents “over 250 carefully-vetted Recipient Agencies.”

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Cline, a self-described “social activist and entrepreneur”, moved to Israel from Britain at theage of 18, and performed his military service in the Israeli army. He has worked asspokesperson for Ariel, a major West Bank settlement, and a former resident of Kiryat Netafim settlement.

Cline has also previously worked for the Shomron Regional Authority, which provides municipal services to some 30 settlements in the northern West Bank. There he managed projects for its then-head Benzi Lieberman, a man who told Jeffrey Goldberg in 2004 that “the Palestinians are Amalek.”

While Cline has previously described himself as “an active member of the World Likud and the Likud Party English Division”, in Israel’s 2013 municipal elections Cline ran on Jewish Home’s list for the Modi’in city council, narrowly missing out. Jewish Home, headed by Naftali Bennett, wants to annex most of the West Bank. Cline has confirmed that he is currently a Jewish Home member.

Read more: http://benwhite.org.uk/2015/09/25/revealed-the-uk-charity-facilitating-donations-to-israeli-settlements/#more-12285

Note: My bolding.

I must admit that I don't know Ben White very well, but Google tells me that Jonny Cline is the director of UK Toremet, apart from being also the Executive Director of UNICEF Israel. It seems as if Jonny Cline is a staunch supporter of the settlements, something that would suggest that he's a racist. It's possible that his statement about children being encouraged by ceaseless anti-Semitic PA incitement, could stem from racist bias.

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3. recruiting children to commit terrorism is bad regardless

of who Jonny Cline is. If UNICEF did not oppose that, it should.

[shira]

4. Shoot the messenger rather than acknowledge Palst'ns recruit kids to commit terror...

I think our anti-Israel friends here deny this is happening altogether, despite other sources...

'Children should not be shahids'
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134124262

Palestinian Journalists, Intellectuals Speak Out Against Children Participating In Terrorist Attacks
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134122927

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5. Human Rights Activist: Palestinian Leaders Inciting Teenagers to Violence

http://www.thetower.org/2438-human-rights-activist-palestinian-leaders-inciting-teenagers-to-violence/

Bassem Eid, the former director of the Palestinian Human Rights, told the Jewish News Service in an interview on Tuesday that Palestinians—living in Jerusalem, the West Bank, and Gaza—are encouraged to believe that their lives “are getting worse and worse.”

“I don’t think this is an intifada,” contended Eid, saying that the current violence “is not organized by any political body. It is organized by incitement.” …

Palestinians in Jerusalem, according to Eid, “have the feeling that they are the front of the whole struggle right now for the Al-Aqsa mosque.” He added that Palestinian leaders in Ramallah have been singing the praises of Jerusalem terrorists, claiming they are “exceeding any level of expectations in the struggle.” …

“Unfortunately, such kind of incitement will probably bring more and more attacks right now against Jews,” said Eid.

Palestinian pollster Khalil Shikaki added that frustrated Palestinians blame Israel for the occupation, but also blame the failure of the Palestinian Authority to “deliver a state, or build clean, efficient, and strong public institutions.” A poll taken by Shikaki’s Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research found that 79 percent of Palestinians believe that the Palestinian Authority is corrupt, and 53 percent believe it to be a burden on the Palestinian people.

The Palestinian experts found that youth who don’t remember what life was like before the 1993 Oslo Accords, which established the Palestinian Authority and the two-state solution framework, favor violence more than the general population, though by a narrow margin.