UNRWA?

Although the US and EU have remained steadfast in refusing to deal directly
with a Hamas-led Government in the PA, they have opted for the alternative of
supplying "humanitarian aid." What exactly is "humanitarian aid"? Aid is
fungible, it can easily be transferred without detection to other purposes
than that for which it is intended.
Some of the aid will now be passed thru the UN Relief and Welfare Agency
(UNRWA). UNRWA funds are used for the indoctrination of children in
anti-Israel polemic in schools run by UNRWA, the glorification of martyrs,
after whom some of the schools are named, and for the support of terrorist
training camps in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as in Lebanon, Jordan and
Syria, where other UNRWA camps are located.
The Palestinians get aid far beyond the amount of any other group in the world
(ca. b$1 per year for ca. 2.5 million people in the PA), and UNRWA is not
bound by the usual rules of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)
that deals with all other refugees. For example, UNHCR recognizes only
refugees as those who actually leave their country, NOT descendents, while
Palestinians have been refugees for three generations!
The name of UNRWA should more accurately be "The UN Palestinian
Struggle Support Organization." And it is supported principally by
Western countries (your tax dollars!), that Hamas and most Palestinians
bitterly oppose. Let the Muslim countries support their Palestinian brothers
with aid if they agree with their aims and their tactics. UNRWA exists
principally to perpetuate the Palestinian refugee situation. The best chances
for a peaceful resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict is to close UNRWA
down.
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A letter on this topic was published in the J'sam Post 3/10/6
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