Those are really great points and I think that collectively, the West needs to take some responsibility for allowing UNRWA to be a primary source of funding that fuels islamic terrorism in the disputed territories.Israel tried that with a unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and it took no time at all before the area was transformed into an Islamist terrorist rats nest.Israel can relinquish their control of the air space, territorial sea of the Occupied Territories and remove their troops and settlers from the West Bank and East Jerusalem anytime they want.
The Islamist terrorists can pack up and leave anytime they want, or they can be systematically exterminated.
The UN has specific guidelines for segregating refugees from combatants at the point of entry into the camps. But if they ( the UN ) don't do that then UNWRA says its the host nations responsibility. Either way the UN failed to separate the two and now we have a mosh of refugee and combatant descendants all being treated like refugees and offered aid even if they are still actively engaged in combat. Which is illegal under all kinds of international law.
I'd suggest the eternal Pal'istanian welfare fraud began with Arafat who managed the PLO which become the first--and only--islamic terror organization to gain UN recognition. He secured for Pal'istinian Arab "refugees" the world's only exclusive islamic terrorist welfare system: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). He got fabulously rich as have the parade of thieves and scammers who followed him.
Palestinian Authority: 1,700 Hamas Millionaires in Gaza
Palestinian Authority: 1,700 Hamas Millionaires in Gaza
It's full of welfare millionaires.
Arafat became the progenitor of modern Arab / islamist terror, who showed that if you lied well enough, if you killed spectacularly enough, and if you did it long enough, the world would take notice and reward you for it. He proved that a man could singlehandedly invent a people, with a nonexistent nation and a history for them, and through a protracted campaign of highly publicized violence against civilians, convince the whole world of The Plight of the Poor, Oppressed Pal'istanians". Billions of dollars of infidel welfare dollars is what Arafat and the PLO were given as their recompense for (very) bad behavior.
Your comment in connection with "....mosh of refugee and combatant descendants..." also needs to be addressed.
So what about the larger picture? Does the ability of Islamic terrorists to launch rockets at Israel with little fear of any significant reprisal have negative implications for Israeli policy toward Gaza, or for the geopolitics of the Middle East? Might the foofaurauw over the matter be obscuring more important, longer-range points that deserve much more attention?
Yes. In a very real sense, I've always thought that Israel was remiss in not actively promoting "statehood" for Pal'istanians. Israel would be at a real advantage with an adjoining islamist terrorist state of “Palestine” in the sense that the very first time a barrage of rockets was launched at the Israeli homeland, there would be nothing to prevent Israel from responding with overwhelming force in retaliation as any nation might do to protect its citizens from an overt act of war. Of course, elements of the UN would react to Israel responding to an act of war as one might expect -- with bellicose condemnation of "disproportionate force on the part of the Zionists", but there is little that the "Useless Nations" could effectively do other than rattle on with "resolutions".
It seems to me that the perpetuation of hostilities - driven clearly by islamic terrorist organizations with clear references to islamist ideology - delineated by one skirmish after another has been more cruel than a war, a victor, and terms of surrender by the belligerent aggressor. At the end of WW2, there was no confusion on the part of Nazi Germany or Japan as to who the victor was and who would dictate terms. More importantly, there was an end to the killing.