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Inner City Press Scoop on Tel Aviv Sex By
UN Duo Israel Mission To UNSC But Not Yet
UNSG
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Exclusive, Patreon
Germany
- Honduras
- UN
Q - Tel
Aviv Austria
UN GATE, June 28
– The United Nations claims to
have a zero tolerance for
sexual exploitation by its
staff and peacekeepers, but
routinely covers up their
abuses including the rape of
children, withholding basic
information which was provided
to the Press under Ban Ki-moon
but not now under Antonio
Guterres.
Inner City Press, which
Guterres has banned from the
UN for 724 days as it asks
about these and his abuses, on
June 23 received from outraged
UN whistleblowers video of
sexual exploitation, they
said, in a white UN-marked
vehicle, here.
Now Instagram,
Facebook.
This was in Tel Aviv,
and Inner City Press beyond
first publishing the video
names names, below. Still
nothing at the UN from the US
Mission - nor yet from the
Israel Mission, from which
this: "Ahead of the expiring
Iranian arms embargo, Israeli
ambassador to the UN Danny
Danon warned the UN Security
Council about the cost of such
a move. Per Security Council
Resolution 2231, Iran is
prevented from importing or
exporting a variety of weapon
systems, including tanks,
artillery systems, warships,
submarines, aircraft,
missiles, and other arms.
Without Security Council
action, this restriction will
expire on October 18th.
Danon highlighted Iran's
violations, including
transfers of "illicit arms to
its proxies in Lebanon, Iraq,
Syria, Yemen and recently even
to Libya." This weaponry,
which is "freely transported
throughout the Middle East and
used by armed militias and
terrorist groups, poses a
strategic threat not only to
Israel, but to the entire
region."
And this,
more closely reported than
BBC: "The video, released by Inner City Press on Tuesday,
shows a woman in a red dress
straddling a man in the back
seat of a vehicle with U.N.
marking as it drives
away. Inner
City Press, an outlet that has
reported and shined a light on
corruption at the world body
for years and was banned from
reporting
on U.N. grounds in New York in
2018, reports that the vehicle
was part of a U.N. Truce
Supervision Organization
(UNTSO) mission in Tel Aviv,
Israel."
Inner City
Press had been informed in
detail by UNTSO and Tel Aviv
sources of the history of
prostitution - which the UN
calls sexual exploitation and
claims it has zero tolerance
for - at work here. HaYarkon
Street is well known for
prostitution, and now hotels
are closed by COVID-19. There
is also a history of those in
the UN vehicle.
On June 25
Inner City Press asked more
than a dozen UN officials in
New York in writing, "June
25-1: As I asked each of you
in writing yesterday, "This is
a formal request for UNSG
Guterres' comment and action
on the video Inner City Press
has uploaded of UN sexual
exploitation in a UN marked
vehicle here
(as of noon June 26 with more
than 10,000 views on Twitter,
more on other
platforms) NOW -
today - before SG Guterres
"press" conference - Inner
City Press is informed by UN
whistleblower is is UNTSO
Plate 205 in Jerusalem, the
man in the back from Trinidad,
front from Puerto Rico. WHAT
HAS GUTERRES DONE?"
They never
answered. On June 28 Inner
City Press asked Guterres,
Melissa Fleming and UNTSO:
"confirm or deny that Michael
Antoine, whose past promotions
and transfers out of UNTSO
including to the UN-OPCW
mission in Syria Inner City
Press has previously asked the
UN spokesmen about without
answer, is with UNTSO (and his
role in this).
Same question regarding Ray
Milan." No answer.
We now
report - Milan is, as Inner
City Press asked and reported,
from Puerto Rico. And in the
back, Michael Antoine has both
Trinidadian and US citizenship
- and quite a history. Inner
City Press previously asked
the UN about him (for example
here).
and his sponsor / Godfather
Fadil Abdullah, since promoted
out to UNICEF in Sudan. Inner
City Press asked the UN about
him, again, in 2019, here
- no answer. UN cover ups.
Whistleblowers exclusively
tell Inner City Press this is
being covered up: Antoine is
"protected." He is known
in all the bars of
Jerusalem. The military
observers know him as the
jackass. That is his
nickname. Military
observers were told not to
place complaints about his
antics, that nothing would be
done. They would see his
UN vehicle out late in the
bars in Jerusalem. He would
drive with Ray to Haifa
Russian bars. Ray Milan
and Antoine would also use
prostitutes
regularly. Senior
management refuse to address
the misdeeds of civilian
staff. Antoine is part
of culture of civilian UN
staff who are undisciplined
and there is no
accountability.
Antoine had many Palestinian
girlfriends and this would
also cause problems for UN.
Guterres is to blame for this.
Inner City
Press has been encouraged by
UN staff to publish this now
to try to ensure that Guterres
doesn't once again cover up
for a "whoremonger." They say
Guterres should resign.
Inner City
Press has written to UNTSO and
Guterres and Melissa Fleming
about Antoine and... no
response.
Inner City
Press formally requested the
code to ask questions at the
June 26 UN noon briefing,
including to a UN Peacekeeping
official who spoke there,
misleading, about COVID-19 -
and Inner City Press will
continue to demand
re-accreditation.
On June
26, despite the story now
being reported from Austria
to Israel
to Switzerland,
those let in from Al Jazeera
and other publications asked
nothing. We'll have more on
this. Watch this site.
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