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Behind the scene with David Bedein – September 15, 2022
Fatah movement takes responsibility for terror attacks
The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, the military arm of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement, has returned to terror activity.
An announcement from “the joint room for the nightly disruptions unit in Ramallah and Al-Bireh,” said that during the “summer rains” activity – the code name for the plan for terror attacks against Israel – “our mujihadeen in the nightly disruption unit in the area of northwest Ramallah have succeeded in hurling an explosive device at the Ata’ra military tower (pillbox) today at 12:20 in the morning.”
“The nightly disruptions unit praises the heroic action which fighters carried out, in which they burned the agricultural fields near the colonial town of Beit El, and this was today at eight o’clock in the evening.”
The announcement concluded, “This is a revolution until victory. This is jihad, with Allah’s help, this will be a victory or a fall of a martyr on his way to Allah.”
Ismat Mansour, an expert in the Israeli field, estimates that the nightly disruptions will lead to an escalation of the conflicts in all of Judea and Samaria, which according to him is the most dangerous arena from Israel’s perspective.
Mansour noted that these actions are not organized and do not require complex planning, since explosive devices can be made independently. He expects the events in Judea and Samaria to escalate as the Jewish holiday season approaches.
Adna’an al-Sabah, a political analyst, believes that the conflicts will soon reach pre-1967 Israel, and noted that the Islamic Jihad’s al-Quds Brigades coordinate their actions with Fatah’s al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades.
Recently, the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades published an announcement in which it took responsibility for carrying out a shooting attack in the Jordan Valley, in which a number of soldiers were injured.
The announcement was called a “military announcement,” and titled, “The beginning of the activities (terror attacks) of the summer rains.” It described the shooting attack as an “heroic action” and a “response to the repeated crimes of the occupation against our fighting nation.”
The al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades promised to continue “to be loyal to the blood of the shahids (martyrs – ed.) and the heroic prisoners, and to remain committed to the path of Yasser Arafat and all the shahids until the Palestine is freed from the ‘impurity of the conquerors.'”
In 2002, Israel declared the al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, to be a terror organization.
Congressman Brad Sherman Statement on the House Foreign Affairs Committee Marking up the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act
I look forward to the House Foreign Affairs Committee marking up my bill, the Peace and Tolerance in Palestinian Education Act, which passed through the Committee unanimously in the previous Congress and now has a companion bill in the Senate led by Senator John Kennedy. The bill will create new State Department reporting to address the ongoing issue of incitement and antisemitic content in textbooks used by the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) – which is especially timely given that, despite UNRWA’s renewed commitments to address this issue in the 2021 Framework for Cooperation, problems with antisemitism and incitement continue to be well documented.
For decades, the United States and the American people have been the top donor to the Palestinian people, including to the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA – but this is not a blank check. American dollars must be spent in a way that reflect American values of tolerance and peacebuilding. Unfortunately, the current Palestinian Authority curriculum, used by both Palestinian Authority and UNRWA schools, falls short of reflecting those values.
Instead of envisioning a Palestinian state alongside Israel, textbooks erase Israel from maps, refer to Israel only as “the enemy,” and ask children to sacrifice their lives to “liberate” all of the land between the Jordan River and Mediterranean Sea. One horrific example includes a 5th grade textbook which encourages students to emulate Dalal Mughrabi, a convicted terrorist who perpetrated the 1978 Coastal Road massacre which killed 38 Israeli civilians – including 13 children.
This violent curriculum has violent consequences. This past May, a report found that a 17 year old Palestinian who attempted to stab Israelis was taught incendiary and violent anti-Israel content at school.
The Palestinian Authority and UNRWA must work with the United States to implement a curriculum that promotes peace instead of undermining it. Ending incitement and violence in the curriculum taught to Palestinian schoolchildren isn’t only a matter of Israel’s security – it’s an obligation that the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA owes their beneficiaries, children who deserve quality education that nurtures their future instead of manipulating them to cut that future short by engaging in senseless violence.
I am proud to have introduced this bipartisan legislation that will give Congress the information and tools it needs to finally fully reform Palestinian Authority and UNRWA curriculum – and work towards a more peaceful future for the next generation of Palestinians and Israelis alike.
Human Rights Alert
Israel
Torture of Israeli citizen by Israeli secret police to extract confessions for prosecution. The Israel Supreme Court upheld the confessions in September 2022.
Amiram Ben Uliel, 27.
Amiram Ben Uliel [center] at Supreme Court in March 2022.
Amiram Ben Uliel was arrested in wake of an arson attack on a home in the West Bank town of Duma in July 2015 in which three people were killed. In January 2016, Ben Uliel was indicted for murder and membership in a terrorist organization.
In May 2020, Ben Uliel was convicted of three counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, three counts of arson and conspiring to commit a racially-motivated crime. He was sentenced to three life terms.
From the start of the detention, torture and isolation were used on dozens of suspects. For 21 days, none of the detainees were allowed to speak to a relative or attorney.
In June 2018, the Israeli district court in Lod confirmed that Ben Uliel had been tortured and ruled out several confessions that he had made to interrogators of the General Security Services. But the court allowed yet another confession by Ben Uliel, which served as the basis of his conviction.
The court also determined that an unidentified defendant, then a minor, was tortured. In May 2019, the suspect, now an adult, entered a plea bargain and eventually was sentenced to 42 months, 32 of which had already been served.
Methods of Torture
Both media accounts and defense attorneys have reported that the General Security Services used what was termed a “menu of torture” against Ben Uliel and other suspects, most of them minors. They included electric shocks, sexual harassment, beatings, groping by a female interrogator and the stretching and shrinking of detainees on what was called a Procustean bed. The torture was approved by the highest judicial authorities – the attorney general and later the Supreme Court, the latter which upheld the use of torture in obtaining confessions.
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The detention and interrogation of Ben Uliel violated Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.”
The case also violated Articles 8-11, which guarantee an effective remedy for violations of fundamental rights, freedom from arbitrary detention, right to a fair trial and presumption of innocence.
In the words of defense attorney Avigdor Feldman, Ben Uliel underwent unprecedented torture by the General Security Services. Feldman, who in 1991 received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, said he read a GSS document to the Supreme Court that listed torture methods.
For the first time, I saw an organized listing of torture methods – how long each method was employed on the body of the one interrogated, how many times each procedure was repeated, and the various auxiliary aids that were designed to produce visceral pain. When I studied the document, which I was forbidden to copy or keep in my office, my hair stood on end. I understood that it was prepared by a brain trust of doctors, interrogators, psychologists, and apparently lawmakers, who used the tested and primitive methods whose purpose was to shatter the feeling of self of the one interrogated, to abandon him to the mercy of his interrogators.
Re-enactment of torture method by General Security Services.
What is needed?
Amiram Ben Uliel and anybody else under torture must be immediately released. Those who tortured the detainees must be prosecuted.
The General Security Services must come under strict scrutiny in how it conducts interrogations and treats detainees.
Israel must submit to international law regarding the complete ban on torture, open trials and transparency. The case of Amiram Ben Uliel has shown how the State of Israel is ready to disregard any legal safeguards to achieve political aims.
Call for Action
The most effective pressure for change stems from the U.S. Congress, which every year approves billions of dollars to Israel. Please call your member of Congress [https://www.congress.gov/sponsors-cosponsors/117th-congress/representatives/ALL] and tell him or her of the legal use of torture in Israel – and that you are concerned for your relatives in that country. Please ask your representative to look into the situation and sent him this factsheet.
Sources
- https://www.honenu.org/blog
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsFS-6P5p7I&ab_channel=AsirZion
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-by-israeli-killer-of-palestinian-family-in-arson-attack/
Israel’s Slide to Dictatorship
A Word First
What happens to a country when it slides toward dictatorship? The first thing to go is trust in the regime. That’s when things get scary, particularly during times of tension. In this edition, we present the example of Israel.
From On High
“For the first time, I saw an organized listing of torture methods – how long each method was employed on the body of the one interrogated, how many times each procedure was repeated, and the various auxiliary aids that were designed to produce visceral pain.”
Human rights attorney Avigdor Feldman describes the legal use of torture in Israel.
Re-enactment of torture by Israel’s secret police. [Otzma Yehudit]
Israel’s Slide to Dictatorship
Israel has never been a democracy. Its founder David Ben-Gurion ruled with an iron hand, suppressed dissent, broke strikes and used the army to block protests. He could count on his secret police, handpicked judiciary and servile media to defeat any opposition.
But Ben-Gurion was deterred from making the new Jewish entity into an open police state. He needed money from the West, particularly the United States, and parliament contained more than a few people willing to publicize the prime minister’s excesses.
Today, the Israeli leadership has few restraints. Washington provides billions of dollars in aid, much of it pocketed by the Israeli elite. Parliament has no power and the judiciary is sworn to regime survival. The mainstream media dare not challenge the government unless encouraged by Europe or the United States.
In September, Israel turned into an open police state. The Supreme Court upheld the conviction of a young Jewish man tortured for weeks by the secret police, formally the General Security Services. The court acknowledged that the defendant, Amiram Ben Uliel, underwent torture, or what was termed “special measures,” but said his subsequent confessions could be used as the basis of his conviction and three life sentences in connection with a deadly arson attack in the West Bank in 2015.
This makes Israel the only country in the world where torture is legal. The United States and European Union, which pressured Israel for convictions in the West Bank attack, were silent.
The Chile example
More than a few democracies have slid into dictatorship over the last century. Perhaps the best example was Chile, which, like Israel, allowed itself to become a playground of the superpowers. The Soviet Union and Cuba supported Chile’s unions and socialist politicians. The United States embraced the capitalist elite. In 1973, Washington engineered a military coup that toppled the socialist government of President Salvador Allende.
Israel has long been under Washington’s thumb. U.S. military aid of some $3.5 billion ensures the loyalty of Israel’s government, military, security services, academia, media — in other words everybody that counts. In 2021, Washington played a critical role in the formation of Israel’s minority government, backed by a Hamas-aligned Arab coalition.
Bereft of independence, the Israeli state follows orders. So, after a firebomb was hurled in the Palestinian village of Duma more than seven years ago, Washington demanded immediate arrests and convictions. U.S. officials also endorsed the claim of the Palestinians that Jews were behind the killing of three people.
The General Security Services went into action. It grabbed nearly 100 young Jews, most of them minors, and beat them senseless. Some were selected for torture. When no credible information emerged, the secret police and prosecutors forced suspects to change their confessions to match the evidence found in Duma.
Unprecedented brutality
Amiram Ben Uliel, then 21, underwent weeks of torture before he confessed. His attorney, Avigdor Feldman, who in 1991 received the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, said he had never encountered the brutality as that endured by his client. The worst part was that GSS had formulated a torture policy to ensure confessions. The measures included electric shocks, sexual harassment, beatings, and what was called a Procrustean bed, a 21st Century version of the medieval rack. The torture was approved by the highest judicial authorities in Israel.
“For the first time, I saw an organized listing of torture methods — how long each method was employed on the body of the one interrogated, how many times each procedure was repeated, and the various auxiliary aids that were designed to produce visceral pain,” Feldman recalled. “When I studied the document, which I was forbidden to copy or keep in my office, my hair stood on end. I understood that it was prepared by a brain trust of doctors, interrogators, psychologists, and apparently lawmakers, who used the tested and primitive methods whose purpose was to shatter the feeling of self of the one interrogated, to abandon him to the mercy of his interrogators.”
In May 2020, an Israeli court threw out several of Ben-Uliel’s confessions under torture. But the court allowed the final confession, which served as the basis of his conviction of three counts of murder, two counts of attempted murder, three counts of arson and conspiracy to commit a racially-motivated crime. Earlier this month, the Supreme Court upheld all of Ben-Uliel’s confessions.
An apathetic citizenry
There were no protests in wake of the Supreme Court ruling. Israelis have become apathetic. Voter turnouts have declined, leading to failed coalitions and soon the fifth parliamentary elections in three years. The state-aligned newspapers, radio and television have been rejected for the social media. Religious observance — whether Judaism or Islam — is at an all-time high in opposition to the secular Jewish elite.
“Altogether, when voters think that there’s a wall between them and how politics gets done in the national capital, they tune themselves out to political happenings,” the U.S. nonprofit Renew Democracy Initiative said. “This is particularly dangerous, as this presents an opportunity for authoritarian-minded political leaders to start curtailing political rights for minority groups, if not the entire national population. This can then start a backslide into dictatorship when the democratic voice becomes permanently suppressed, eliminating any kind of recourse against undemocratic policies such as voter suppression or encroachments onto free speech.”
The distrust in Israel’s institutions has been expressed in other ways. Despite the threat by Iran and its proxies, the willingness of Israelis to serve in the military has dropped significantly. Young people are fleeing the country, many of them settling in Germany. The most popular politician is a 46-year-old attorney with a long police record who represents those deemed Jewish extremists.
On Sept. 11, GSS chief Ronen Bar warned of Israel’s political instability, saying this was encouraging the country’s enemies. He said the “deep rift” in Israeli society is the “most complex” challenge faced by his organization. He did not address the GSS policy of torture.
“The prevailing feeling among our adversaries is that our historical advantage, our national resilience, is fading,” Bar said. “This insight should trouble us more than anything else.”
Danny Lewin H’yd: The very first victim of 9/11
Danny Lewin first walked into Samson’s Gym in Jerusalem in 1985 accompanied by his best friend, Aviad, the son of Peace Now pioneer activist Janet Aviad. Despite Danny not yet being 15, came armed with a series of questions about Jerusalem’s legendary fitness facility, the first of its kind in Israel, and the much-talked-about new attraction in Israel’s capital. After asking about the equipment, the rates, the hours, and the type of workout program that he had hoped to get from one of the muscular instructors who seemed to epitomize the gym’s name, Danny asked a question that would seem haunting a decade and a half later. “Why are there no Arabs here and what are you afraid of?” His question seemed more a comment that stood to support the argument that would soon follow when his close friend brazenly challenged the gym’s unspoken policy………..to read more see link below:
Palestinian Authority schoolbooks deny Holocaust, legitimize Munich massacre
Children in the Palestinian Authority and UNRWA began their school year on Sept. 1, only instead of the promised education reforms, their schools continue to use the same books that have been heavily criticized for inciting hatred against Jews and Israel.
History books in PA and UNRWA schools laud and legitimize the tragedy, in which Palestinian terrorists murdered 11 Israeli athletes, describing it as “resistance” to Zionism, and “Zionist interests abroad.”
It also showed that textbooks on World War II omit the Holocaust entirely. They cover the main events in detail, such as the German invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain, the attack on Pearl Harbor, and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but not a word about the Wannsee Conference, concentration camps, or any other events related to the Holocaust.
Surprisingly, the German government is the main funder of the Palestinian education system, including textbooks. The PA Education Ministry’s budget for the implementation of their plan comes from Germany, as well as Norway, Finland, and Ireland.
Palestinian children are taught to believe that Judaism is a racist religion and that Jews control the media, politics, and finances. Jews are depicted as liars, corrupt, and “enemies of Islam at all times and places,” and as such should be eliminated.
The German Embassy in Ramallah confirmed in a statement that the country “does support Palestinian education, but does not finance the development or printing of the textbooks. “We are in constant dialogue with the Palestinian side for further improvements in the education sector and the materials used in it,” the statement said.
COMMENT FROM DAVID BEDEIN:
58% OF THE UNRWA BUDGET IS ALLOCATED FOR EDUCATION, WHICH INCLUDES FEES FOR DEVELOPMENT AND PRINTING OF THE PA TEXTS FOR USE IN UNRWA SCHOOLS. GERMANY, AS THE LARGEST DONOR TO UNRWA EDUCATION, KNOWS THAT VERY WELL.
Unanswered questions about the Amiram ben Ulliel conviction
Here in a concise manner, we list many of the unacceptable practices in the Duma arson conviction which was upheld recently on appeal to the Supreme Court::
The first days after the arson: Without any evidence, it was announced that the arson and murder in Kfar Duma were committed by “Jewish Terrorists”. Almost like a blood libel, there was nothing connecting the crime to Jews unless you wish to believe that Arabs cannot daub Hebrew graffiti when they wish to confuse the police and the people. But this has happened in previous arson cases.
Administrative Detention: Again without any evidence against them, a large number of those sporting large knitted kippahs and long sidelocks were arrested and tortured to coerce an admission and confession.
No Lawyers Allowed: For 21 days none of the arrested were allowed to speak to a relative or to a lawyer. Were they not innocent until proven guilty?
Pain, threats and Torture: The accused were treated as Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists are treated. They were finally released without an apology. They and those close to them are still suffering the trauma and scars of what they experienced.
In “Welcome to your GSS interrogation” – Netanel Furkowitz, brutally interrogated by the GSS for 12 days in connection with the Duma incident, has broken his silence and recorded his account of the horrific interrogations.
False Video: When much of the public became aware that the Shin Bet (Shabak, ISA) was using illegal means to coerce confessions, the Shabak felt duty-bound to prove that their methods were justified for security reasons. The result was a doctored video production “The Wedding of Hate”. This faked video was so successful, that it proved, in Caroline Glick’s words: “that the whole community supported and even celebrated the murder of the Dawabshe family”.
Former Defense Minister Moshe (“We know who did it”) Ya’alon testified that “The prime minister brought a video of the wedding to the cabinet. At this point, some cabinet members still did not believe that Jews could commit murder in the Duma case. They were not prepared to say ‘Jewish terrorism. After seeing the video, they realized that there was a broader problem here.”
Ticking Bomb Lie: The permission obtained to torture Amiram Ben Uliel during GSS interrogations was obtained through lies and deception. The GSS and the Justice Ministry personnel knowingly lied when they claimed that Ben Uliel constituted a “ticking time-bomb threat”. The brutal torture suffered by Ben Uliel was therefore illegal.
The Deceitful Reenactment: The official video that “convinced” the judges of Amiram’s guilt, describes how Ben Uliel was forced to repeat his confession and reenact the crime after the head of the GSS interrogation team, known as “Miguel”, threatened him: “I have the means and I know how to use them”.
According to police regulations, a reenactment must be led by an officer who is not a member of the team investigating the case and does not know the details of the investigation. This is to ensure that the reenactment will be free of all influences from anyone who could give clues to the defendant being investigated. The defendant must lead everything from start to finish, but in the Duma case, apparently, there were other rules.
In the Duma arson reenactment, this regulation was violated twice. First, the officer who led the reenactment and walked hand in hand with Ben Uliel the entire time was Chief Superintendent Erez Amouyal, who was at the head of the Israeli Police investigation team in the Duma case.
The regulation was violated a second time by the presence of Miguel during the entire reenactment. Miguel was very involved with the investigation and the case. As far as Ben Uliel is concerned, one word from Miguel could bring him back to the interrogation room in which he was tortured.
A video of the reenactment begins with Ben Uliel sitting in a police Jeep on the way to Kfar Duma. Amouyal is sitting next to Ben Uliel and tries to get him to start talking. However, an uncooperative Ben Uliel answers, “I have no idea where we are going.” At this point, Miguel interrupts: “As we discussed, Amiram. Where would you like to go? What we discussed. Nothing has changed.”
Following this warning, 18 critical minutes are missing from the video after which Amiram cooperated fully and repeats his confession verbatim. What did they do or say to make him more cooperative? Did they give him the information which the justices said he could not have known?
Identifying the scene of the crime is a critical part of the reenactment, but Amouyal and Miguel prevented Ben Uliel from leading them to it. After the Jeep entered Kfar Duma, Ben Uliel asked to get out and lead them to the scene of the arson. “Could we walk?” he asked, and Amouyal answered him, “What’s that? Ahhh, we could, but right now we’d prefer not to. When we get closer.” Miguel added, “It’s [because of] the army.”
It seems apparent that Amouyal and Miguel were not pleased with Ben Uliel’s “identification” of the crime scene and understood that he was about to bring them to the wrong site, and insisted on not letting him out of the Jeep until they were very close to the site of the arson.
The judges chose to ignore this flagrant abuse of the judicial system.
Judge Shopping: The court announced that Justice Neal Hendel, who is critical of accepting confessions collected by improper means, was removed from the panel and was replaced. The three previous judges that found him guilty were known for their views..
All Positive Evidence Rejected: Any evidence that proved Ben Uliel’s innocence was summarily dismissed. It included his alibi, all witnesses who observed the crime and stated that at least two people were involved, the qualified graphologist who stated that the graffiti was not done by Amiram and in fact was the work of two persons, and that two cars were involved in the getaway.
The obsession to find Jewish settlers or a Jew guilty acted to protect the actual guilty parties. Logic tells us that the crime was the work of a Dawabsheh family member, just one of a list of similar arson attacks—-before and after the one that was highlighted as a Jewish crime. And the infamous Avishai Raviv, the planted provocateur, gives rise to another possible horrific scenario.
Unbelievable? One of the strongest reasons for doubt is the speed at which “Jewish” terrorists were accused. It seems the long awaited chance to implement what, during the years 1994-95 a committee, under the direction of then-Attorney General, Michael ben Yair, designed “Special Law Enforcement Rules for the Settlers in the Territories.”
“There is no doubt” of Ben-Uliel’s guilt,” the judges wrote in their decision .If so, we ask, why were so many loopholes and why so many unacceptable practices necessary to convict him?
Report: UN refugee agency accepted $50 million from US-designated terrorist group
The Union of Good is a Saudi Arabia-based umbrella organization consisting of more than 50 Islamic charities and funds. It is designated by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control as a Specially Designated Global Terrorist group, which allows the United States to block the assets of foreign individuals and entities that commit, or pose a significant risk of committing, acts of terrorism.
The international nonprofit Israel-education organization StandWithUs recently uncovered that member charities of the Union of Good fundraising organization, designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury in 2008 for supporting terrorism, have channeled the money to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.
Since 2012, the UNHCR has accepted approximately $49 million from the Qatar Charity, along with another $4.75 million from the Eid Charity over the last two years. Eid Charity founder Abdul Rahman Al Nuaimi has been designated as a terrorist by the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and the U.N. Security Council for his support of Al-Qaeda and its affiliates in Syria, Iraq, Somalia and Yemen.
“While such money has seemingly been used to help refugees, a humanitarian institution accepting funds from groups tied to terrorism is deeply disturbing,” writes StandWithUs director of policy education Jordan Cope. “The U.N. and the UNHCR are exposing themselves to dangerous influences and potentially legitimizing an internationally-recognized terrorist organization.”
According to Treasury, “the Union of Good’s executive leadership and board of directors includes Hamas leaders, Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), and other terrorist supporters.” Treasury claims that the Union of Good has brokered several organizations and charities previously designated as terrorist entities for providing support to Hamas and Hamas-affiliated organizations in Judea and Samaria and Gaza.
‘Investigate failure to vet donors’
“The United Nations was founded to put an end to the scourge of war and protect fundamental human rights. The High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, must ensure that his agency upholds these values,” Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent human rights organization based in Geneva, told JNS.
One of the Union of Good’s founding members, Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, has been banned from entering the United States, France and the United Kingdom.
Union of Good board member Abd al-Majid al-Zindani is also a U.S.-designated terrorist, supportive of Hamas and Al-Qaeda.
“We call on Mr. Grandi to clarify whether the U.N. Refugee Agency has taken any money from groups that fund radical Islamist ideology or even directly support terrorism. If so, he should apologize to victims of terrorism for legitimizing these groups, investigate the failure to vet such donors and ensure that processes are in place to prevent this from ever happening again,” insisted Neuer.
The report shows open praise by UNHCR leadership for the Qatar Charity, an affiliate of the Union of Good, which is banned by multiple Middle Eastern countries for financially supporting the Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organizations in the Gaza Strip.
“The context is that Qatar gave safe haven to the Taliban leadership and helped them take over Afghanistan, and has given billions of dollars to Hamas, Muslim Brotherhood affiliates and armed Islamists throughout the region,” said Neuer. “UNHCR cannot claim to be a humanitarian agency if it legitimizes Qatar-controlled groups that fuel extremism and terror.”
