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And now this.

A UN report was leaked several days ago, dropping bombshell allegations: that Krähenbühl’s leadership fostered corruption, nepotism, financial and operational irregularities. And there’s sizzle: reports that Krähenbühl’s alleged mistress, one Maria Mohammedi, was fast-tracked very early on in his tenure into a senior position created for her which, coincidentally, required that she jet about with her boss, first class, on the UNRWA dime.

The organization is widely known to be operating with near total immunity, answerable to virtually no one

As an international human rights organization, UNRWA is required to operate on a non-political and, of course, ethical basis. It doesn’t. Anti-Semitism is spewed in educational curriculum in UNRWA schools, and even the social media accounts of staff. The organization is widely known to be operating with near total immunity, answerable to virtually no one.

The fact that the UN is peeking inside the UNRWA kimono, then, is most interesting, because that ossified institution would be loath to take on UNRWA without encouragement from regional powers. The UN report was leaked to AFP and Al Jazeera, two news outlets that tend to be loyal foot-soldiers for the Palestinian cause and reliably hostile to Israel. For the UN — which has always looked the other way when it came to UNRWA accountability and operations — to spearhead such an attack suggests strongly that Krähenbühl ruffled some mighty powerful feathers in the Middle East, possibly linked to his apparently open dalliance with Mohammedi. Some very powerful people in the region want him out.