(Commentary) Michael S. Bernstam - Gaza is a totalitarian paramilitary camp at war with its neighbors and other Palestinians. The Gaza district features eight separate Palestinian refugee camps, plus dozens of surrounding ghettos. These camps were established in 1949 and have been financed ever since by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Yet far from seeking to help residents build a new and better life either in Gaza or elsewhere, UNRWA is paying millions of refugees to perpetuate their refugee status, generation after generation, as they await their forcible return to the land inside the State of Israel. The writer is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
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