A full-page ad in the Sept. 27 issue of the Globe and Mail, sponsored by the NGO Médecins sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF), begins with the words, “Doctors can’t stop genocide: World leaders can.” At the end, it asks readers to “stand up for humanity” by signing a linked petition calling on the Canadian government to “uphold international Humanitarian Law.”
The rockets fell in an area adjacent to the Morag Corridor, in close proximity to the distribution point, but the site was undamaged by the attack.
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In between, the duplicitous ad tots up the many calamities Gazans have endured in the two-year
Hamas-Israel war. The ad speaks of civilian hunger,
but not of plentiful aid stolen by Hamas. It
does not mention Hamas at all —
or the hostages taken, or any other casus belli.
- an act or situation provoking or justifyingwar.
And hanging overall the false accusation that it is Israel that is committing genocide. Genocide requires intent, demonstrably not the case in Israel’s defensive war, but which perfectly describes the motivation behind Hamas’s rabid pogrom on October 7.
Nevertheless, credulous empaths will read the ad through a lens of trust in MSF’s original humanitarian mandate. They won’t register the absence of objectivity that today’s transmogrified MSF as a politicized, biased and untrustworthy source of information.
Amongst other derelictions of professional honour, MSF has not only lied about proven Hamas entrenchment in Gaza hospitals (“we have seen no evidence that the hospital buildings or the compounds are being used by Hamas as a military base”) but admitted — following Oct 7, mind — giving funding to the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health.
The words “non-governmental organization” are a synonym for “civil society.” They are supposed to be made up of altruistic civic-minded groups that provide expertise independent of the narrow self-interest of political bodies. It is on that ground that they are invited to participate in UN activities and speak during UN sessions. (Outside the UN, NGO is a generic term to distinguish non-profits from the business and government sectors.)
But when the upright Cold War era founders of worthy, but now corrupted NGOs like MSF, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty retired, anti-democratic Marxist activists executed the equivalent of a corporate hostile takeover of their organizations.
Apart from their anti-Israel ideology, attacking Israel brought them headlines, money and approval from Islamists. Their new brand failed to attract the scrutiny it deserved. Worse, because of their groups’ original politically neutral respectability, they still enjoy the “halo effect” established by their honourable forebears. Consequently, an equally politicized, incurious media accept their biased “reports” as objective without fact-checking or independent analysis.
Unlike real corporations, the superpower NGOs are accountable to nobody, yet in large part they are setting the UN’s agenda on Israel. Then, when the UN executes the agenda they have promoted, they endorse it as if it were a coincidence that they’re on the same page.
Hint: it is all about the money
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