Comments on: UN vs IDF Smackdown

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 10:59:28 +0000

Here's one example: http://akbayanrisa.wordpress.com/tag/press-kit/press-releases/ The solon filed today a resolution to investigate the AFP‚Äôs policies in joining UN peacekeeping missions and the alleged misuse of the United Nations Support Fund for peacekeeping. Through a Memorandum of Understanding, the AFP gets reimbursement from the UN for the expenses that it has incurred for fielding Filipino soldiers in UN missions abroad. The reimbursements cover the US$1, 028 uniform allowance for per peacekeeper (the Troop Cost Allowance, or TCA), the soldiers‚Äô subsistence, and the military equipments that are needed to support the troop during the entire mission (the Contingent-Owned Equipments, or COE). Citing a report by Newsbreak magazine, the solon said that since 1999, when the country started to deploy troops again for UN peacekeeping missions, the AFP was able to save millions of dollars by recycling old equipments and by using vehicles and armaments donated by the country‚Äôs military allies like the US. ‚ÄúHow can they protect themselves if they can‚Äôt even have new helmets or better vehicles?‚Äù asked Rep. Hontiveros. The report also said that the AFP was able to scrimp funds from the UN money to construct an international peacekeeping center in Capas, Tarlac, which was later abandoned for its substandard materials. ‚ÄúFurthermore, the decision to cut by 40% the allowance of Filipino soldiers in UN missions abroad means that the AFP is saving P8 million monthly from the TCA reimbursements,‚Äù Rep. Hontiveros said. ‚ÄúNo one knows where the money goes. We believe that since the UN money is treated as a discretionary fund, then it is very prone to be used for corrupt practices such as conversion.‚Äù Rep. Hontiveros urges Congress to investigate the policy of AFP on peacekeeping to prevent the misuse of the funds from UN. The government should focus its attention on the repatriation of Filipino migrant workers in southern Lebanon and northern Israel, the solon from AKBAYAN added. More here. Where Did The Dollars Go? The United Nations pays back the military what it spends for sending peacekeeping troops abroad. Do officers profit from it? (Newsbreak, July 31, 2006)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:08:56 +0000

Don’t you have some rioting moslems in your own country to surrender to?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 21:05:37 +0000

The US pays for more than half of the UN’s operating costs. The French are getting their money back from their own contribution when they send in their troops. The UN does nothing for the US … except for spending US contributions.

I cordially invite you to host that sodding nuthouse in NYC yourselves. We will just declare the inmates personna non grata, give them all 48 hours to leave, and then bulldoze the building into Turtle Bay.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:15:33 +0000

i do not understand why you israely guys always belive evry bullshit from your newspaper. The european countrys don’t make a single dollar by sending their troops to libanon. It just costs a lot of money and European taxe payer pay for it…. If they are successfull or not or if the mandat is good or not. That is often not the fault of the soldiers, but of UN and the countrys who signed it like israel. I always wonder how you proud IDF people like to take the gives of all the wapons from all those antisemetic countrys in europe in middle of last war like the geraman submarines etc… May be without it your second srike capability wouldn’t be that good, that you are so proud of. And by the way all those antisemetic countrys do not give a dam shit on your nuclear weapons… No body says something against that, even if they are not really legal, but a least already a little against Iran, even though they do not even have wappons. So stop that shit, that all europe doesn’t do anythink for you. By the way your first nuclear power plant and nuclear rockets, didn’t come from france??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:01:38 +0000

what a bullshit is that?? european countrys pay a lot for those missons! and they do not get 2 billions of US dollars evry year for their troops from the big brother

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 12:19:52 +0000

Optional caption – “Do I have something in my eye?”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 11:39:37 +0000

There's more to this than meets the eye. According to DEBKAfile the Fwench UN troops were protecting Hezbollah. DEBKAfile reports the French force sought to prevent the Israeli unit from combing through the Hizballah-dominated village in search of the raiders who crossed into Israel and broke into the IDF‚Äôs Kibbutz Shomera arms store last week. They made off with a large quantity of side-arms, anti-tank weapons, LAU rockets and hundreds of combat grenades, which the Israeli force was determined to recover.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:46:56 +0000

So four French tanks came rolling and stopped next to an Israeli checkpoint. Judging from the photo they had a nice little chat with the Israeli guys and then continued on their patrol.
Not really news, is it?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:08:45 +0000

thanks god marcel marceau was jew heh

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:53:16 +0000

So … Fwance is profiting on UN funds when it sends its Mimes to Lebanon.

And who pays most of the UN funds? Gee … that would be the USA. So we Americans are the ones getting stuck with most of the bill.