Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2

[P F Tinmore]

J-Street has a "Myths and Facts" page about UNRWA where they deliberately switch the myths and the facts.




Once again, the "pro-Israel" J-Street can find nothing bad to say about an organization that teaches its students that they must remain stateless until they "return" to destroy Israel.

Their "myths and facts" could have been written by UNRWA itself, and I think there is a good chance that this was in fact the case.

(full article online)

J-Street lies for @UNRWA - and says that Palestinians have a "right to return" ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

UNWRA is an aid agency. They do not define who is a refugee. They only define who is eligible for aid.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?
UNRWA is anything but a humanitarian organization interested in the welfare of the Palestinians whom it claims to have spent the past nearly 70 years assisting. It is, rather, a self-serving political body that has bolstered Arab/Palestinian rejectionism and perpetuated Palestinian suffering, thereby preventing peace and prosperity.

In early 2018, President Donald Trump froze a large portion of the funding that the United States provides annually for UNRWA (the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees a in the Near East). Prior to imposing the $125 million freeze, Trump tweeted: "[W]e pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect."

The president's move came in response to the fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his henchmen yet again were rejectingAmerican and Israeli peace overtures. Yet it was both welcome and necessary for reasons well beyond Palestinian intransigence. UNRWA not only has an abominable record of ties to terrorism, which makes a mockery of its mandate to " provide relief, human development and protection services;" but its entire existence is based on a false premise -- a special UN definition of "refugee" for Palestinians that sets them apart from other people in the world categorized as such. It thus has been able for decades to keep cash flowing freely into its coffers, providing "humanitarian services" for millions of Palestinians who are not refugees by any measure. As the ZOA's Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel recently wrote:

"All this stands in stark contrast to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the international body that deals with all refugee problems other than the Palestinian Arabs. UNHRC observes a universal definition of refugee status, one that applies solely to those who actually fled their country during hostilities, civil war, natural disaster, or other disturbances. UNHCR works to resettle refugees quickly and dismantle the temporary refugee camps housing them. Nor does it count descendants as refugees.

"This has immense practical ramifications: in literally all other cases other than the Palestinian Arabs, the number of refugees shrinks over time — chiefly through successful resettlement. In contrast, in the Palestinian Arab case, their numbers continue to expand ceaselessly.

"Thus, instead of the living original refugees officially numbering 30,000, UNRWA now services some 5.3 million Palestinian Arabs."

The actual number of Palestinian refugees is likely even lower than that cited by the authors: a classified State Department report, delivered to Congress in 2015, reveals it to be closer to 20,000. The report showed that billions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled over the years into an organization that seems to have been perpetuating a fraud. It is no wonder, then, that the Obama administration kept the report's contents a secret from the American public.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?

Instead of just slinging crap... History and legalities.

 

[Hollie]

J-Street has a "Myths and Facts" page about UNRWA where they deliberately switch the myths and the facts.




Once again, the "pro-Israel" J-Street can find nothing bad to say about an organization that teaches its students that they must remain stateless until they "return" to destroy Israel.

Their "myths and facts" could have been written by UNRWA itself, and I think there is a good chance that this was in fact the case.

(full article online)

J-Street lies for @UNRWA - and says that Palestinians have a "right to return" ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

UNWRA is an aid agency. They do not define who is a refugee. They only define who is eligible for aid.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?
UNRWA is anything but a humanitarian organization interested in the welfare of the Palestinians whom it claims to have spent the past nearly 70 years assisting. It is, rather, a self-serving political body that has bolstered Arab/Palestinian rejectionism and perpetuated Palestinian suffering, thereby preventing peace and prosperity.

In early 2018, President Donald Trump froze a large portion of the funding that the United States provides annually for UNRWA (the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees a in the Near East). Prior to imposing the $125 million freeze, Trump tweeted: "[W]e pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect."

The president's move came in response to the fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his henchmen yet again were rejectingAmerican and Israeli peace overtures. Yet it was both welcome and necessary for reasons well beyond Palestinian intransigence. UNRWA not only has an abominable record of ties to terrorism, which makes a mockery of its mandate to " provide relief, human development and protection services;" but its entire existence is based on a false premise -- a special UN definition of "refugee" for Palestinians that sets them apart from other people in the world categorized as such. It thus has been able for decades to keep cash flowing freely into its coffers, providing "humanitarian services" for millions of Palestinians who are not refugees by any measure. As the ZOA's Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel recently wrote:

"All this stands in stark contrast to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the international body that deals with all refugee problems other than the Palestinian Arabs. UNHRC observes a universal definition of refugee status, one that applies solely to those who actually fled their country during hostilities, civil war, natural disaster, or other disturbances. UNHCR works to resettle refugees quickly and dismantle the temporary refugee camps housing them. Nor does it count descendants as refugees.

"This has immense practical ramifications: in literally all other cases other than the Palestinian Arabs, the number of refugees shrinks over time — chiefly through successful resettlement. In contrast, in the Palestinian Arab case, their numbers continue to expand ceaselessly.

"Thus, instead of the living original refugees officially numbering 30,000, UNRWA now services some 5.3 million Palestinian Arabs."

The actual number of Palestinian refugees is likely even lower than that cited by the authors: a classified State Department report, delivered to Congress in 2015, reveals it to be closer to 20,000. The report showed that billions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled over the years into an organization that seems to have been perpetuating a fraud. It is no wonder, then, that the Obama administration kept the report's contents a secret from the American public.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?

Instead of just slinging crap... History and legalities.

Why cut and paste that silly, irrelevant YouTube video when you have dumped it multiple times across multiple threads?

 

[Hollie]

 

[P F Tinmore]

J-Street has a "Myths and Facts" page about UNRWA where they deliberately switch the myths and the facts.




Once again, the "pro-Israel" J-Street can find nothing bad to say about an organization that teaches its students that they must remain stateless until they "return" to destroy Israel.

Their "myths and facts" could have been written by UNRWA itself, and I think there is a good chance that this was in fact the case.

(full article online)

J-Street lies for @UNRWA - and says that Palestinians have a "right to return" ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

UNWRA is an aid agency. They do not define who is a refugee. They only define who is eligible for aid.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?
UNRWA is anything but a humanitarian organization interested in the welfare of the Palestinians whom it claims to have spent the past nearly 70 years assisting. It is, rather, a self-serving political body that has bolstered Arab/Palestinian rejectionism and perpetuated Palestinian suffering, thereby preventing peace and prosperity.

In early 2018, President Donald Trump froze a large portion of the funding that the United States provides annually for UNRWA (the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees a in the Near East). Prior to imposing the $125 million freeze, Trump tweeted: "[W]e pay the Palestinians HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year and get no appreciation or respect."

The president's move came in response to the fact that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his henchmen yet again were rejectingAmerican and Israeli peace overtures. Yet it was both welcome and necessary for reasons well beyond Palestinian intransigence. UNRWA not only has an abominable record of ties to terrorism, which makes a mockery of its mandate to " provide relief, human development and protection services;" but its entire existence is based on a false premise -- a special UN definition of "refugee" for Palestinians that sets them apart from other people in the world categorized as such. It thus has been able for decades to keep cash flowing freely into its coffers, providing "humanitarian services" for millions of Palestinians who are not refugees by any measure. As the ZOA's Morton Klein and Daniel Mandel recently wrote:

"All this stands in stark contrast to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the international body that deals with all refugee problems other than the Palestinian Arabs. UNHRC observes a universal definition of refugee status, one that applies solely to those who actually fled their country during hostilities, civil war, natural disaster, or other disturbances. UNHCR works to resettle refugees quickly and dismantle the temporary refugee camps housing them. Nor does it count descendants as refugees.

"This has immense practical ramifications: in literally all other cases other than the Palestinian Arabs, the number of refugees shrinks over time — chiefly through successful resettlement. In contrast, in the Palestinian Arab case, their numbers continue to expand ceaselessly.

"Thus, instead of the living original refugees officially numbering 30,000, UNRWA now services some 5.3 million Palestinian Arabs."

The actual number of Palestinian refugees is likely even lower than that cited by the authors: a classified State Department report, delivered to Congress in 2015, reveals it to be closer to 20,000. The report showed that billions of taxpayer dollars have been funneled over the years into an organization that seems to have been perpetuating a fraud. It is no wonder, then, that the Obama administration kept the report's contents a secret from the American public.

UNRWA's "Palestinian Refugee" Fraud?

Instead of just slinging crap... History and legalities.

Why cut and paste that silly, irrelevant YouTube video when you have dumped it multiple times across multiple threads?

Because Zionists are slow learners.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Talk about spamming the same irrelevant video multiple times.

 

[rylah]

Palestinian Refugees Protest Against UNRWA

“I see UNRWA staff living a lavish life. They are traveling, attending conferences, and then you hear about a deficit,” said Mohammad Shawish, a Palestinian living in Jerusalem. “Shouldn’t expenditure of available funds be addressed?”

The 2013 audit of the UNRWA states “The Board has identified a number of issues that will need to be considered by management if the effectiveness of UNRWA operations is to be improved.”

In the report, the auditors found that payments to suppliers for refugee needs had to be deferred to meet staff salary needs. That’s $5.26 million that was deferred from suppliers to meet the salary obligations of $52.34 million in December 2013.

Shouldn’t the needs of those being displaced, injured and even killed come before the needs of staffers? Working for an organization like the UNRWA, these workers should know that their salary is at risk of being cut to support those in dire need. Or at least that’s how it should work from a humanitarian standpoint.

Residents of Bourj El Barajneh Palestinian refugee camp have raised many questions about the organizations practices and their lack of truly listening to them. One resident, Cyrine, wonders “why does the UNRWA hire foreign workers and pay for their accommodation, travel, etc. when we, qualified Palestinians, can work for the organization and then they will be providing a salary, saving a family, and reducing wages?”

Although the UNRWA employs 30,000 people, most of them being Palestinian refugees, that number also includes foreign workers.

Palestinians in Lebanon cannot work in many professions in Lebanon mainly because of their refugee status. A 2012 report by the International Labour Organization states that 50 percent of Palestinian Refugees earn 500,000 LBP ($330.47) or less per month.

“You go to a job interview, and the moment you say you are Palestinian, the employer apologizes,” says Ahmed from Bourj El Barajneh camp. The refugees are barred from practicing such professions as medicine and law and are not allowed to benefit from the Social Security System.

Now, with the UNRWA’s deficit combined with the exclusion of Social Security, many ill refugees or pregnant women will be without the care and help they need.

Noura, a Palestinian in Beirut, raised questions about the expenditures of UNRWA employees. “The UNRWA flew many people last year for conferences,” she said. “Then we see people getting denied from services for lack of funding. Shouldn’t be there better planning for how donors money is being spent? We have had enough.”

It’s organizations like the UNRWA that are supposed to be saving the world. Instead, when you really look into the gut of the operation it seems like they are part of the problem. What can we do to fix this?

Palestinian Refugees Protest Against UNRWA | HuffPost

 

[rylah]

Long classified report on Palestinian refugees may finally be released
By Rick Moran
Congress is putting pressure on the Trump administration's state department to release a classified report that would severely damage the narrative on Palestinian refugees. Among other things said to be in the report is the revelation that there are far fewer Palestinian refugees than the UN and the Palestinian Authority have claimed.

Washington Free Beacon:

Key lawmakers in Congress are increasing pressure on the Trump administration to release a long classified government report on Palestinian refugees that insiders have described as a potential game changer in how the United States views the refugee issue and allocates millions in taxpayer funding for a major United Nations agency, according to conversations with senior congressional officials working on the matter.

The State Department has, since the Obama administration was in office, been hiding a key report believed to expose the number of Palestinian refugees as far smaller than the U.N. and other have claimed for decades. The public release of this information could alter how the United States provides funding for Palestinian refugees.

The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed the existence of the refugee report in January, when the Trump administration decided to significantly cut funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, an organization long accused of harboring anti-Israel bias and of aiding Hamas terrorists in the Palestinian territories.

Though the State Department is legally required to publish an unclassified version of the report, it has repeatedly ignored demands by Congress that the report be released.

The State Department, when asked by the Free Beacon, could not provide any information or timeframe on the report's possible release.

"The State Department is committed to taking all appropriate measures to provide information in response to requests from Congress," a State Department official said.

Congressional demands that the report be publicly released come at time of mounting criticism for UNRWA, which is facing a severe cash crunch following the Trump administration's decision to reduce U.S. funding. The tense situation with UNRWA has sparked protests in the Gaza Strip, where UNRWA mainly operates and employs hundreds.

In addition to regional protests over UNRWA's inability to pay salaries, Turkey was recently appointedat the U.N. to chair the agency's advisory committee for the next year. This has stoked concerns that UNRWA could take an even more anti-Israel position in the coming months.

UNRWA has been playing a confidence game with numbers of refugees for decades. The more refugees they claim in their reports, the more money they receive and can siphon off as pure graft.

Long classified report on Palestinian refugees may finally be released

 

[Sixties Fan]

Mustafa Khaled Awad, 36, A Palestinian Arab with Belgian citizenship, was arrested while attempting to enter Israel through the Allenby Crossing, it was cleared for publication Wednesday.

The joint interrogation of the Shin Bet security service and the International Criminal Investigation Unit in Lahav 433 revealed that Mustafa was recruited into the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization and has served as an operative for the terror group since 2010. It was also revealed that Mustafa was a member of a cell of PFLP terrorist operatives living and working in Europe, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, as well as activists in Judea and Samaria.

In the course of his activities for the PFLP, Mustafa left for military training in Lebanon in 2015, where he trained with Hezbollah operatives.

The investigation also revealed that Mustafa helped transfer terrorist funds from the PFLP terrorist organization in Syria and Lebanon to European activists. The Central District Attorney's Office is expected to file an indictment against Mustafa in the coming days for terrorist offenses.

(full article online)

From Belgium to Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine

 

[Shusha]

The Palestinians have not rejected a state. They have only rejected partition.

Yep. The rejection of partition is the rejection of the existence of any non-Arab, non-Muslim State in the territory, rejecting the rights of the Jewish people in their own homeland. And it is a rejection of the normal way these types of conflicts are solved in modern times -- special rules for Jews.

 

[Hollie]

Gee whiz. Aside from the fun and games Ahed enjoyed as a guest of the Joooooooos, she apparently had time to stuff her face at meal time. She had a significant weight gain in jail. The little porker just couldn't put the fork down.

The truth about Israeli prisons:
Singing and dancing; TV and books

The truth about Israeli prisons: Singing and dancing; TV and books - PMW Bulletins

• Ahed Tamimi's description of singing and dancing, reading books and watching TV, refutes PA lies and libels about conditions in Israelis prisons

• A male terrorist prisoner described that the "worst thing about Israeli prison" is when prisoners are forced to ride in a prison vehicle that does not have padding on the seat. In the prisoner's words, this is suffering "beyond imagination."

By Itamar Marcus

Palestinian 17-year-old Ahed Tamimi, who served eight months in Israeli prison for inciting suicide bombings and for striking Israeli soldiers, was asked by Russian RT TV how she passed the time.

Her descriptions of her daily routine for herself and the entire wing include singing, dancing, reading books, watching TV, even legal studies and matriculation exams, and refute the PA's ongoing lies about the conditions in Israeli prisons.

The following is part of a longer interview on RT TV:

 

[Shusha]

UNWRA is an aid agency. They do not define who is a refugee. They only define who is eligible for aid.

The operational definition of "refugee", according to UNWRA is "person whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948 and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict" and all their descendants in the male line. UNWRA has also expanded that operational definition to include other categories including those who did not lose their homes and descendants in the female line.

This definition is VASTLY different from the UNHCR definition which is "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted...is outside his country of nationality, OR, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his habitual residence".

UNHCR's definition is tied to nationality and thus has a built-in end-game to refugee status -- being inside the country of one's nationality. UNWRA's definition, in contrast, creates a perpetual status of "refugee" which can not be relieved.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Sometimes we see photos of coins or stamps or currency of British Mandate Palestine being reproduced as "proof" that there was a Palestinian state.

If that is true, and British Mandate Palestine is proof of a Palestinian state, then its first leader was - a Jew!

Herbert Samuel was appointed to the position of High Commissioner of Palestine in 1920.

So if the money and stamps supposedly prove that Palestine existed as an independent entity, then even so the first leader of the Palestinian people after the Ottoman era was Jewish.

(full article online)

The first political leader in Palestine was a Jew ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ Palestinians "and" Arabs ?
So, Palestinians are now distinct from Arabs, like the Iranians and Kurds and Yazidis?
It does take chutzpah, does it not ?
BTW, not the first time Arabs separate the "Palestinian Arabs" from themselves. ]

MEMRI noted that Jarrar also called on the Arabs to "end our silence and idleness and declare....that we will be the ones to choose the deal we want."

The proposed deal, Jarrar said, should include a clause stating that "all the Jews who came to Israel after the Balfour Declaration of 1917, as well as their children and descendants, will return to the countries from which they came, without taking anything with them."

"The Palestinian refugees will return to their homes," he continued, "and the US and Britain will compensate the Palestinians and the Arabs for the damage caused by the Zionist occupation" as well as for the "damage caused" by the "Zionist aggression" and for "hosting the Palestinian refugees."

Israel, meanwhile would "sign a document stating that they have no rights, historical or otherwise," and any Israelis who killed Palestinian Authority Arabs would be turned over to the PA and prosecuted, "to receive the punishment they deserve."

"Even if this plan does not seem feasible today, the Arabs must persist in making these demands, for these are their rights and they will eventually attain them," Jarrar added.

(full article online)

Jews, get out of 'Palestine!' | Former Jordanian minister proposes 'peace deal'

 

[P F Tinmore]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

You people keep beating the wrong horse. UNWRA is strictly an aid agency. The resolution of the refugee problem was mandated to the UNCCP in accordance to resolution 194.

The UNWRA has nothing to do with the refugees other than to provide aid.

 

[rylah]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

You people keep beating the wrong horse. UNWRA is strictly an aid agency. The resolution of the refugee problem was mandated to the UNCCP in accordance to resolution 194.

The UNWRA has nothing to do with the refugees other than to provide aid.

Actually UNRWA:

• facilitates the prolonging of a refugee status
• establishes a multi-generational welfare system only for persons of a single political group, who outside regular refugee agencies would not be eligible for aid.

UNRWA is a financial fraud.

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[Hollie]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

You people keep beating the wrong horse. UNWRA is strictly an aid agency. The resolution of the refugee problem was mandated to the UNCCP in accordance to resolution 194.

The UNWRA has nothing to do with the refugees other than to provide aid.

I want to see this gain traction and the UNRWA welfare fraud ended.


Kushner said pushing to close UNRWA, end refugee status for Palestinian millions

 

[Shusha]

[ Palestinians "and" Arabs ?
So, Palestinians are now distinct from Arabs, like the Iranians and Kurds and Yazidis?
It does take chutzpah, does it not ?
BTW, not the first time Arabs separate the "Palestinian Arabs" from themselves. ]

MEMRI noted that Jarrar also called on the Arabs to "end our silence and idleness and declare....that we will be the ones to choose the deal we want."

The proposed deal, Jarrar said, should include a clause stating that "all the Jews who came to Israel after the Balfour Declaration of 1917, as well as their children and descendants, will return to the countries from which they came, without taking anything with them."

"The Palestinian refugees will return to their homes," he continued, "and the US and Britain will compensate the Palestinians and the Arabs for the damage caused by the Zionist occupation" as well as for the "damage caused" by the "Zionist aggression" and for "hosting the Palestinian refugees."

Israel, meanwhile would "sign a document stating that they have no rights, historical or otherwise," and any Israelis who killed Palestinian Authority Arabs would be turned over to the PA and prosecuted, "to receive the punishment they deserve."

"Even if this plan does not seem feasible today, the Arabs must persist in making these demands, for these are their rights and they will eventually attain them," Jarrar added.

(full article online)

Jews, get out of 'Palestine!' | Former Jordanian minister proposes 'peace deal'

Just wow.

 

[Shusha]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

You people keep beating the wrong horse. UNWRA is strictly an aid agency. The resolution of the refugee problem was mandated to the UNCCP in accordance to resolution 194.

The UNWRA has nothing to do with the refugees other than to provide aid.

UNWRA has an operational definition of who is registered as a "refugee" and has actually changed that definition. Are you saying they are operating illegally by doing so? What definition should they be using?

 

[P F Tinmore]

The politicization of UNRWA is what makes it an anti-humanitarian agency.

Hweidi goes through the history of UNRWA, not entirely accurately, describing how different it was in the 1950s to today, and by doing so he doesn't quite realize that he is damning the agency.

In 1949, the Agency was given the task of supporting the Palestinian refugees, in addition to providing humanitarian services such as health, education and relief, coordinating with the host countries to integrate refugees into the economies of the region and working to settle those who do not wish to return and reside in host countries in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. These countries were forced to sign armistice agreements with the Israeli occupation between February and July 1949, creating a political climate suitable to begin the process of resettlement without the objection of the host countries and the exploitation of the deteriorating humanitarian situation of the refugees. The refugees themselves stopped this project and promoted awareness of what their perception was being plotted against them.It was the Arab countries and self-appointed Palestinian "leaders" who fought against UNRWA's original aims, not the refugees themselves, who would have gladly accepted being integrated into Arab countries.

And most of them still would, today. We have documented cases where loopholes opened for Palestinians to become citizens of Egypt and Lebanon, and how tens of thousands of them jumped at the opportunity to do so.

Hweidi describes other failed attempts to integrate Palestinians into the region:

(full article online)

Palestinian op-ed accurately explains how @UNRWA turned from humanitarian to political ~ Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

You people keep beating the wrong horse. UNWRA is strictly an aid agency. The resolution of the refugee problem was mandated to the UNCCP in accordance to resolution 194.

The UNWRA has nothing to do with the refugees other than to provide aid.

UNWRA has an operational definition of who is registered as a "refugee" and has actually changed that definition. Are you saying they are operating illegally by doing so? What definition should they be using?

That only defines who is eligible for aid.