(Washington Examiner) Michael Rubin - UNRWA has become the poster child for UN bureaucratic bloat, mission creep, and twisted morality. When the UN created UNRWA in 1949, it was meant to be a temporary agency to address a temporary problem. But Arab states like Egypt, Syria, and Iraq used UNRWA to undercut normalization with Israel and transformed an aid agency into a weapon against Israel. If UNRWA promises to take care of housing, education, and support for many Palestinians, this allows the PA and Hamas to spend their money on terror pensions, terror tunnels, and an arsenal of rockets. It's long past time to cut off UNRWA and ask the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to take over. The writer is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a former Pentagon official.
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