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Peter Gallo

Peter Gallo

Artist and writer

May 24, 2026

11:35
How about that, Peter?
11:37
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
11:38
I know the phone's probably gonna ring or we're gonna get, [laughs] start getting emails.
11:42
But no, I mean, it's all in the appraisal report.
11:45
So how we came to that and how in, you know, in our development we're asking questions, uh, we're looking at the market.
11:53
The agents involved might be giving us their CMAs or how they came up with the list price and property information.
12:02
So-Everybody should unders- be able to understand, well, at least our client will.
13:42
Deal with it."
1:37
Are UN peacekeepers abusing women and children just with impunity?
1:43
Impunity is too strong a word.
1:46
And you have to understand that there is a very significant differences between peacekeepers and civilian staff when troop contributing countries, uh, provide soldiers for peacekeeping duties.
2:02
They retain, uh, investigative jurisdiction over those troops.
2:06
So if for example, uh, there is an Indian soldier as part of an Indian peacekeeping battalion in Congo or somewhere else, and he does something, uh, uh, he commits an offense.
2:20
He will be prosecuted under the Indian military code of justice.
2:23
He'll be court-martialed, um, uh, under, does it say by his military authorities? If a civilian staff member does something, well, they're subject to the UN's jurisdiction.
5:03
Hmm.
0:00
I'm famous for, um, famous for this.
0:04
Uh, I had 18 years of experience, uh, as an investigator in the private sector in Asia before I joined the UN and, um, my, uh, my unit chief decided that, uh, uh, I didn't know what I was doing and, uh, that I was required to be put on an improvement plan.
0:25
And this improvement plan, uh, actually stated in writing that as an investigator, I must never ask questions just to satisfy my curiosity.
0:35
Not once, but twice.
0:37
And, uh, and the, uh, on it, it went on.
0:41
And, uh, I also had to do an English language, uh, report writing course because apparently I'm semi literate and didn't know that every sentence of the English language needs a subject and object and a verb.
2:22
I mean, in a good way.
2:23
No, I don't.
1:42
First, tell me in very layperson terms, what actually is the UN?
1:47
The UN was formed as an international organization at the end of the Second World War.
1:55
And I have a lot of sympathy for that at the time.
1:59
The, the conference in San Francisco, which met, and I think there was 50 countries met to negotiate and set up this organization.
2:11
They met on the 26th of April, 1945.
2:15
Now at that time, the allies had crossed the Rhine.
2:20
The, the end was within sight.
5:54
And you have been looking into, or you were looking into, and are looking into, a lot of the sex crimes, among other things.
0:37
Well, who's actually vote? That's what we talked about the beginning who's actually voting for these people who's who's voting for this,
0:42
you know the Israel is An embarrassment to the UN The 1948 Arab-Israeli war is a major embarrassment to the UN.
1:01
What happened? Israel is, if it's not the only, it's probably the first country that was actually established as a direct consequence of a UN General Assembly resolution.
1:14
And that was in November 1947.
1:18
And if I remember correctly, this was the two-state solution.
1:25
It was put to a vote of the General Assembly, and the voting was... 33 in favor, 13 against with 10 abstentions.
1:38
And that, I think, will give you 55 or so.
3:32
Didn't they? I think,
4:54
That makes sense.
4:55
And the issue is you tend to have, when you consider the big missions, um, like in Sudan, certainly when I was there, you had something like 20,000 military personnel supported by something like 1,500 civilian staff.
5:16
So if you have, just to pick numbers and rely on what the Secretary General says, if you are getting equal numbers of complaints against military personnel, against civilian personnel, on a percentage basis, it's much worse on the thing.
5:33
But leaving that aside.
5:37
you've got 600, okay? 600 a year.
5:42
And the issue is that we know that sexual offenses are underreported.
5:46
And we have pretty good and credible estimates of the degree of underreporting, certainly in England and Wales, North America.
7:54
The...
1:30
What about that Hamas tunnel that went under the UNRA headquarters?
1:34
Ah, the tunnel.
1:34
The tunnel.
1:34
Now, that was an interesting one.
1:37
So in the course of military operations, the IDF discover that Gaza is riddled with tunnels.
1:46
Everybody knows this.
1:47
Apparently, there have been tunnels dug under Gaza since the Crusades and before.
6:11
Mm.

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