Toronto-- It's not everyday that those "peacemakers" at the United Nations get caught red-handed in the business of bumper sticker politics.
With the pain of the evacuated Jewish settlers of Gaza in plain view on the world's screen, comes the UN-financed slogan: "Today Gaza and Tomorrow the West Bank and Jerusalem."
The slogan has been showing up on thousands of bumper stickers, banners, coffee mugs and T-shirt--according to a UN official quoted in The New York Sun, the footwork of the UN.
Neutrality is what got the United Nations its international immunity to conduct business on american soil. Neutrality is a textbook oxymoron when it comes to the UN.
Not only did the neutral UN bankroll the production of the Today-Gaza-Tomorrow-the-West-Bank-and-Jerusalem bumper stickers, but also the UN widely distributed them to Palestinian arabs in the Gaza strip.
"The UN support of the Palestinian authority's propaganda machine in the midst of the Israeli evacuation of Jewish settlers from the Gaza strip has provoked outrage from Israel and the Jewish leaders, who are blaming Turtle bay for propagating an inflammatory message that they say encourages Palestinian arab violence" says the Sun.
The UN bumper sticker campaign is not just another one of those endless bloopers bouncing out of the world's biggest bureaucracy in Manhattan. The carefully crafted message was calculated to be dispatched on a timeline that deliberately coincided with the Gaza pullout.
"That particular poster was prepared by the disengagement office with financial support from the United Nations Development Program, Timothy Rothermel, a special representative of the United Nations Development Program in the Gaza Strip told Fox News.
as quickly as any UN official could say "not guilty" to suspicions of connections to the oil-for-food scandal, came the official UN spin on bumper sticker politics.
William Orme, a UNDP spokesman said his office gave money to the Palestinian Withdrawal Committee to "help the Palestinian authority communicate to the populace about the withdrawal and its economic and social impact."
Jingo from UN talking heads is always wide sweeping, mealy-mouthed and uttered in six official languages.
In reality, the propaganda money was funneled to the committee through a sub agency called Program assistance to the Palestinian People, but UN officials claim not to have known anything about the fund.
They were brought into the loop only when a letter of complaint arrived at UN headquarters from the american Jewish Congress.
In typical UN doublespeak response, officials now investigating portents of the letter, refuse to say whether the United Nations stands behind the slogan printed on propaganda materials.
"We are emphatically neutral–We do not lend ourselves to political messaging in favor of any particular faction or ideology," says UNDP spokesman William Orme.
Make that the UN is officially neutral and frustratingly vague when caught up taking sides.
Orme must have attended the same Geneva interpreter's school as Teresa Heinz-Kerry and her classmate UN secretary general Kofi annan's spokesman, Fred Eckhard.
When his boss Kofi created a New York furor last March by bowing at the grave of mass terrorist Yasser arafat, this is how Eckard tried to explain it:
"Kofi annan is secretary general of an organization made up of all nations, and so he could not be in the region without paying a call on the new President of the Palestinian authority, Mahmoud abbas. arafat's grave lies within the compound of the president's residence, and the secretary-general, like every international visitor to the residence, paid his respects at arafat's resting place."
Here's a suggestion for a new bumper sticker slogan for the UN: "The UN aids and abets terrorists" in six official languages."
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