UN lies or just mistruths?

Friends of Israel, beware of UN hypocrisy - and take note of this important report by Palestinian Media Watch:

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False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today 
but "pre-1948" Palestine UNRWA's name still appears in logo of youth center that currently glorifies suicide bomber on its Facebook page

Earlier this week, Palestinian Media Watch reported that the Director of UNRWA Affairs in Lebanon, Ann Dismorr, posed with a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as "Palestine," at an UNRWA event in Lebanon.

These pictures were broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV and on the Palestinian news site pn-news.net, corroborating PMW's report. 

UNRWA spokesperson Christopher Gunness, responding on UNRWA's website, rejected PMW's report. He claimed that the map in question was not intended to reflect the present, but reflected the period before Israel was established:

"UNRWA categorically rejects accusations in the media that the Agency is 'erasing Israel from the map' because its officials and stakeholders stood next to a map which does not show Israel.
The map in question is an embroidery depicting a pre-1948 map and therefore ante-dates the creation of the state of Israel. The allegations are therefore completely false."

[UNRWA's website, May 14, 2013,
http://www.unrwa.org/etemplate.php?id=1748 ]

UNRWA spokesperson Gunness' justification that the map "depict[s] a pre-1948 map" is baseless, as the map includes the PLO-PA flag and not a British flag. That exact map erasing Israel, especially when accompanied by the PA flag, is one of the many ways the PA expresses its rejection of Israel's existence and right to exist. 


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Thanks to the talented, responsible reporting from the guys at palwatch.org !