UN official admits lying about starving Gazan babies in a modern-day version of the blood libel
Of course, he doesn’t say “I lied.” He’s such a good and virtuous person, you see. He meant well, and he just needs to be more precise:
UN aid chief Tom Fletcher expressed regret for his recent claim that 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours in Gaza without aid – a claim the UN retracted – in an interview with the BBC on Friday.
Fletcher acknowledged a need to be “precise” with language, admitting that when he made the comments, “we were desperately trying to get that aid in.”
“We were being told we couldn’t get it in, and we knew that we’d probably have a couple of days, a window to get as much aid in as possible, and that was being denied, and we were desperate to get that in. And so yes, we’ve got to be utterly precise with our language, and we’ve clarified that,” he said.
Isn’t that great. Meanwhile, his “desperate” lie was spread around the world, repeated over and over by an MSM devoted to villainizing as baby-killers the only Jewish state in the world. One of the many results of his lie was that it almost certainly contributed to the motivation of Elias Rodriguez, the alleged murderer of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgram.
The UN and people such as Fletcher, as well as the international “human rights” community and international courts, consider it perfectly fine to distort the truth – that is, lie – in line with their anti-Israel and often anti-Semitic convictions. That those convictions are based on an edifice of falsehoods is of no concern to them, and they have no problem adding some more bricks to that edifice.
More from Fletcher:
Despite his retraction, Fletcher still maintained that Israel has caused forced starvation in Gaza, amounting to a war crime.
Hamas plays people like Fletcher like a violin. Israel is the only country I can think of that is supposed to feed an enemy that has attacked it viciously. And if Gazans are starving, it is mostly because Hamas takes its food away, keeps some for itself, and then sells the rest back to the people at a profit.
More:
The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) [US and Israel-backed], which the UN refuses to cooperate with, opened its third distribution center in Gaza on Thursday.
The UN doesn’t want Israel distributing the food; it apparently wants Hamas to do it in its own special way.
At least he waited an appropriate time. Maybe he should go on a Magical Mystery Apologize Fer Nuttin’ publicity tour with Jake Tapper….
The UN could just engage Hamas to distribute and prepare food for all its business in its New York headquarters, if their preference for them is that strong.
Here is a simple rule re: Gaza ; never, ever believe anything that emanates from the anal pie hole of Hamas and the UN.
The UN, through its policies there, is a partner of Hamas and complicit in all the terrorist activities of Hamas.
I do not understand why the USA is still a member of the UN. The sooner the US gets out of the UN, the better.
When Donald J. Trump exaggerates [no need to offer examples, is there really?], his bloviations are dismissed as the rantings of a carnival barker. When U.N. aid chief Tom Fletcher exaggerates, it’s all for a virtuous cause. /SARC
I do know and acknowledge the difference, barker versus blood libel. Still, I long for *accuracy* in ALL circumstances, to the extent reasonably possible. I know, stoopid me, out of touch with The Way Things Are Done Now. Postmodern “truth”, whatever the h#ll that is.
John Tyler (4:33 pm) does “not understand why the USA is still a member of the UN. The sooner the US gets out of the UN, the better.” I have felt that way for literal decades; welcome to the club.
one possible objection, is without the US in the tent, China and Russia and most of the general assembly would team up against it, not a crazy notion, of course from daniel patrick moynihan to niki haley, they have pushed to reform the institution to no avail, the UN Human Rights Council is a pack of wolves, in sheep’s garb,
It was a compelling framing to deal a not so novel handmade tale to green em-pathizers.
The UN General Assembly is majority totalitarian, totally full of BS posturing. It is the Security Council where the action is, and where the US has a veto which cannot be overridden. That’s the only reason for the US to stay a member.
The UN Aid agency said they wouldn’t work with the Israel backed Aid agency because “it’s too dangerous”, yet 2 people died at one of their distribution locations (there was no mention if it was UN people or the Gazans) and then at another the workers had to flee because of unruly Gazans.
All the data on casualties and deaths comes strictly from Hamas, which the AP and other wire media dutifully report without so much as a hint of doubt as to the veracity.
I wonder if the Gazans still think Hamas are the group they should align with?
Let me know when the first Hamas member suffers from malnutrition.
I have a suspicion that intergovernmental agencies and NGOs are, as a rule, populated with salaried employees who are about as truthful and forthright as your average university administrator.
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NB, had what we used to call the ‘refugee problem’ in the eastern Mediterranean been handled the way the much larger problem in Europe was handled, Those in the UNRWA camps would have been resettled elsewhere and the camps and their operating agency shut down by around about 1963. International aid agencies manufactured the ‘Palestinians’. We know that UNRWA employees were participants in October 7 and in the imprisonment of the hostages. That should suffice to justify dissolving the agency.
If I were living in a war zone, with no regular food supply and no stable place to live, I believe I would be gaunt, my clothes would be in taters, and I would be rather grimy looking.
When I see videos of Palestinian refugees in Gaza, I see people who seem well fed, have clean/ presentable clothes, and no grime on their hands or faces. Either they are masters at living hand to mouth in a war zone, or they are well fed, housed, and given new clothing on a regular basis.
You want me to feel sorry for them – show me some people in rags, grime, and the look of starvation. The way refugees looked during WWII.
Until then, I’m convinced that the food, clothes, and shelter are being supplied very well.
yes, sadly I think pallywood schemes, I think I first heard of that, from the erstwile lgf blog (it may exist in some form,
the Palestinians were given an opportunity in 1994, akin to 1947 for Israel what did they do with it, of course Ben Gurion and Arafat are night and day, then again what sensible leadership could rise from that toxic brew,
the late charles Mccarry predicted a chiliastic islamic cult like Hamas or Al Queda nearly 50 years ago, he called in the eye of Gaza,
retconning some of the details in subsequent books
after the better angels, there is a character somewhat like trump, a pragmatic businessman type, whose name is a killing word to the progs of that era,
having worked in the CIA in the 60s and 70s
https://x.com/profstonge/status/1928811913778991437
Not just the UN.
The blood libel is metastasizing:
“QUOTE OF THE DAY” (from Lee Smith)
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/05/quote-of-the-day-49.php
H/T Powerline blog.
Opening grafs:
Related:
“Fox News, AP, CNN, Others Ran With Massive Hamas-Sourced Fake News, Then the Surveillance Video Came Out”—
https://redstate.com/bonchie/2025/06/01/ap-fox-news-cnn-others-ran-with-hamas-sourced-massacre-story-then-surveillance-video-came-out-n2189887
Key grafs:
+ Bonus (Mark Twain’s “mesmerized” episode):
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2025/06/quote-of-the-day-48.php
Key graf:
H/T Powerline blog.
And some more Peace Dividend news!
“Arab ministers gather to attack Israel;
“Ministers from Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt accuse Israel of extremism and demand unilateral steps while sidestepping Hamas terror.”—
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/409313
+ Bonus (from th Edward Luttwak
“How Bibi Buggered On to Victory;
“Through sheer tenacity, the Israeli PM fended off unremitting pressure from Washington and reshaped the regional map…”
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/netanyahu-buggered-on-victory-israel
Oh well…Orwell…again and again and again….
The towering, uncowering Brendan O’Neill (again)….
“Israel’s latest crime? Feeding the people of Gaza;
“The hysterical response to Israel’s aid initiative in Gaza has exposed the lunacy of Israelophobia.”—
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/27/israels-latest-crime-feeding-the-people-of-gaza/
H/T Powerline blog.
Opening graf: