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February 11, 2019       Share:    

Source: https://www.jns.org/new-report-highlights-how-un-gives-singular-treatment-to-palestinian-refugees/

UNRWA Is a Total Failure as a Refugee Organization

(JNS) Israel Kasnett - Uri Akavia, a researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum, published a new paper titled "Is UNRWA's hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique?" He told JNS, "People have finally realized that UNRWA is a very large and important organization that is perpetuating a problem that should not have even existed after 70 years." Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, told JNS: "The fact is that so many of the worst Hamas terrorists were educated in UNRWA schools, and UNRWA was used as a place where Hamas could store its weaponry in violation of all kinds of UN resolutions that prohibit conversion of refugee camps to military facilities." Gold pointed to what he thinks is UNRWA's worst sin: The "conversion of the Palestinian refugee problem to a challenge locked into perpetuity. If you look at other refugee situations - Europe after World War II - all those refugees have been settled. Whereas, in the case of the Palestinian refugees who are taken care of by UNRWA, the numbers have only increased from about half a million in 1948 to what UNRWA claims is over 5 million today. That represents a total failure of UNRWA as a refugee organization."

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