Ripped From The Headlines, February 12, 2024 - The UN Issue - Guest Contributor Peter A. Gallo
Guest Contributor Peter A. Gallo, UN Whistleblower & Investigator Provides Insights Into The Corruption & Cover-Ups At The UN - Read, Share, & Subscribe - SherlocExposes.com
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The Dodginess of a Dodgy Dossier
Peter A. Gallo is a legal professional with over 20 years of international investigative experience and was recognized as an authority on Money Laundering across the Asia-Pacific region… he is now an outspoken critic of corruption in the United Nations.
Editors Note: Peter Gallo was also featured on Foxnews.com this past weekend. Click Here to read that story.
Much has been said about the Israeli information implicating UNRWA staff members in the October 7th terrorist attacks on Israel.
It is being described as a “dodgy dossier” and many prominent politicians and others (including the former UNRWA spokesman Brian Gunness) are screaming that there is “no evidence” to criticize the donor states who have suspended UNRWA funding, even accusing them of complicity in genocide by withholding funds.
This is deliberate confusion of the standards of proof.
Consider the scenario of a woman going to a police station and reporting “I was raped. My ex-boyfriend did it.” There would be a public outcry if the Police response was to insist “there is no evidence”?
The woman might have serious injuries very consistent with a violent rape but she will not have video or photographic evidence of actual rape nor will she have the result of a DNA test of any hair or bodily fluids that she might have collected. She will not have any incontrovertible “evidence” to give to the police.
What she will provide instead is “probable cause” to believe that a criminal offense was committed. That is all that is required to initiate an investigation, and it is the responsibility of the police - not the woman reporting the crime - to carry out that investigation.
It is also important to appreciate that no matter how horrific or how violent the rape might have been; at least where the Rule of Law prevails, the ex-boyfriend cannot be sentenced before the investigation is completed. He must be afforded the opportunity to dispute the allegations made by the complainant and he cannot be sentenced without due process being followed.
What happened on January 8th this year was that the Israeli authorities provided information about individuals they believe were involved in very serious crimes in Israel on October 7th. There is no dispute that those crimes took place, and what the Israeli authorities said was basically that they had “probable cause to believe” that the 12 named UNRWA employees were involved in those criminal offenses.
It is not the Israeli Government's obligation to provide incontrovertible evidence that these individuals were actively involved. The individuals were in Gaza; the Palestinian Civil Police would have jurisdiction to initiate a criminal investigation if they were inclined to do so, but these individuals were of particular interest to UNRWA because they were UN employees.
The UN has Staff Regulations and Rules and an elaborate bureaucracy surrounding the investigation of wrongdoing by staff members and how they may be disciplined, but the UN does not have any authority to conduct a criminal investigation, and no authority to investigate anyone who is not a UN employee.
When presented with the information about 12 UNRWA employees being involved in terrorism; Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, has now admitted in the press that he did not question the Israeli information. He just summarily dismissed them before any investigation even began.
Some will doubtlessly say that he was right and that no time should be wasted on due process - but respect for the Rule of Law is what differentiates civilization from despotism.
In 1961, when Adolf Eichmann was prosecuted, in an Israeli court, for some of the most egregious crimes against humanity in modern history; due process was followed. He was provided with the defense counsel of his choice (paid for by the Israeli government), he was given the chance to speak, and no sentence was passed until the charges against him were proved to the requisite standard of proof. That is the mark of a civilized society.
What the UN has done here, however, was make a spectacular mess of a bad situation, all by dismissing these individuals without due process and imposing a sanction that was clearly based on “no evidence!”
Compounding the felony, the Secretary-General then sought to subject these individuals – now former employees - to an investigation for criminal actions - by the Office of Internal Oversight Services (“OIOS”).
That is an office I am very familiar with because I worked there. I can therefore point out that it is an office with no jurisdiction to conduct a criminal investigation anywhere in the world.
OIOS has nevertheless started an investigation into individuals over whom they have no jurisdiction, and are going to try to do so with no knowledge of the criminal procedures or due process rights to be respected if the individuals are ever to be held criminally accountable.
The Secretary-General has however reiterated that any UNRWA employee involved in acts of terror would be “held accountable, including through criminal prosecution” - but cannot offer the simplest explanation for how that might be achieved
The individuals are in Gaza, but their (alleged) crimes were committed in Israel. Israeli law would therefore apply and the Israeli courts would have jurisdiction - but the UN has no legal authority to extradite them, and the Secretary-General would have to be delusional if he seriously entertained the thought that either the Palestinian Authority or Hamas might hand these “freedom fighters” over to Israel to be prosecuted for involvement in a Hamas operation that even the UN Office of Counter-Terrorism would have to concede was 'terrorism'.
Problems such as these can rarely be solved with the same level of intellect as was responsible for creating them, but this mess could have been avoided had someone in a position of authority how to deal with, and exploit, sensitive information…
Guterres claims that the Israeli information was sufficiently credible to justify the decision, but credibility is not synonymous with proof. In an attempt to show that the UN is acting responsibly, Guterres tried to defend his actions by saying: “We couldn’t run the risk not to act immediately as the accusations were related to criminal activities.”
That is curious because, in the last ten years, the UN has admitted to investigating 207 staff members for sexual offenses involving some 940 (known) minors. That, by definition, is criminal.
Why were none of those staff members ever summarily dismissed before being investigated? Was it the number? Was it because they hadn't raped enough children? Would the UNRWA staff members have been put on Admin Leave if the death toll on 7 October had just been kept down below a thousand?
It is only a matter of time before the dismissed UNRWA employees exploit the inevitable. OIOS is going to be unable to prove the Commissioner-General was acting in accordance with the established policies and procedures when he summarily dismissed them; they will be queueing up at the UN Dispute Tribunal seeking compensation for unfair dismissal.
Their first exhibit will be the Commissioner-General's admissions in the press, and their success will be assured….
And as if that alone were not embarrassing enough, he is quoted in the same news article explaining that the UN is currently engaged in “reverse due process.”
This hitherto unknown proposition takes the recommended mantra of “Stop, think, act” can still be valid if carried out in reverse order, leading to all manner of unkind questions about whether his mother still dresses him in the morning and whether he is at risk of wearing his underwear outside his pants…
There must be an element of irony in the fact that the dismissal of these UNRWA staff accused of terrorist offenses came the same day as the Secretary-General had sent a letter to all staff in the UN bemoaning the Organization's tragically “deteriorating financial situation.”
Also on that day, the press reported on the dismissal of another senior official - a man who may be familiar with the 'reverse due process' practice who describes himself as a “serial overachiever in global executive level management.” He managed to lose over $63 Million in “investments” so absurd that it beggars belief, and is the subject of ongoing criminal investigations in Denmark and Finland.
Interestingly enough, even he was not summarily dismissed before the internal investigation was completed.
Or the occasion when a staff member was caught using an official UN vehicle to transport almost 400lbs of marijuana; again, he was afforded his due process rights and not summarily dismissed before the internal investigation was completed.
The tragedy in all of this, however, is that having created the mess, the UN is now benefitting from the growing popular cries for donor states to resume their financial support for UNWRA; the UN is now dependent on this “no evidence” argument to pressure the donor states to resume the money flow, which means that UNWRA and Hamas share the same goal. They depend on each other. Both will clearly be happy to discredit the Israeli dossier by any means available because that will also serve the shared objectives of further demonizing Israel and silencing calls for UNRWA to be disbanded.
The UN has proved, repeatedly and for over 75 years, that it simply cannot police itself. This is just one more example of why the United States needs to take a serious and independent look at UNRWA - the UN is not capable of impartiality here, it is part of the problem, not part of the solution.
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