The Absurdity of UNRWA
UNRWA -- the United Nations Relief Workers Agency -- has around 30,000 employees and a budget of almost $1.25 billion. America pays about $250 million of this. Almost all of the workers are Palestinian, and the only purpose of UNRWA is to aid Palestinian "refugees."
Why do I put "refugees" in quotes? Because there are only around 30,000 Palestinians alive today who were actually displaced by the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948. UNRWA justifies its existence by claiming as a refugee anyone DESCENDED from them -- which means, in many cases, that these "refugees" include persons who are the great-grandchildren of at least one person displaced in 1948, who have lived their whole life in other countries and who may even be citizens of other countries. This is a definition employed only for Palestinians -- nobody else would be considered a "refugee" by such a definition.
In fact, by UNRWA's definition there are several million Palestinian "refugees." Most of whom live in other countries, many of whom have absolutely no intention of "returning" to a land they've never seen and a life which would be far inferior to the ones they are enjoying elsewhere. That's okay, as most of the billion and a quarter dollars that flushes down the UNRWA toilet hole never gets to any actual refugees, but rather disappears neatly into the pockets of UNRWA, various terrorist groups, and the private bank accounts of their leaders.
In contrast, UN staffing for refugee assistance to the whole rest of the world is around 6,000. Which is to say, the UN pays five times as many people to help the Palestinian "refugees" -- of which there are only around 30,000 actual ones -- as it does to pay people to help every other refugee in the world, of which there are many millions of actual ones.
In the recent war, it has been revealed that UNRWA is directly cooperating with Hamas to attack Israel. "Directly" in a sense that would morally justify Israeli airstrikes on the UN headquarters in New York City, though of course that would be ruled out on power-political grounds. UNRWA is helping Hamas conceal surface-to-surface missiles and rockets, when found they gave them back to the terrorists, and just a few days ago several Israeli soldiers died because UNRWA booby-trapped one of its buildings.
Why is America helping to pay for UNRWA? Why is anyone paying for UNRWA, for any reason other than anti-Semitism, pure and simple?
Let's stop giving money to UNRWA. Better yet, let's classify it a terrorist organization and kick it out of the country.
We've tolerated this farce for far too long.
Why do I put "refugees" in quotes? Because there are only around 30,000 Palestinians alive today who were actually displaced by the Arab invasion of Israel in 1948. UNRWA justifies its existence by claiming as a refugee anyone DESCENDED from them -- which means, in many cases, that these "refugees" include persons who are the great-grandchildren of at least one person displaced in 1948, who have lived their whole life in other countries and who may even be citizens of other countries. This is a definition employed only for Palestinians -- nobody else would be considered a "refugee" by such a definition.
In fact, by UNRWA's definition there are several million Palestinian "refugees." Most of whom live in other countries, many of whom have absolutely no intention of "returning" to a land they've never seen and a life which would be far inferior to the ones they are enjoying elsewhere. That's okay, as most of the billion and a quarter dollars that flushes down the UNRWA toilet hole never gets to any actual refugees, but rather disappears neatly into the pockets of UNRWA, various terrorist groups, and the private bank accounts of their leaders.
In contrast, UN staffing for refugee assistance to the whole rest of the world is around 6,000. Which is to say, the UN pays five times as many people to help the Palestinian "refugees" -- of which there are only around 30,000 actual ones -- as it does to pay people to help every other refugee in the world, of which there are many millions of actual ones.
In the recent war, it has been revealed that UNRWA is directly cooperating with Hamas to attack Israel. "Directly" in a sense that would morally justify Israeli airstrikes on the UN headquarters in New York City, though of course that would be ruled out on power-political grounds. UNRWA is helping Hamas conceal surface-to-surface missiles and rockets, when found they gave them back to the terrorists, and just a few days ago several Israeli soldiers died because UNRWA booby-trapped one of its buildings.
Why is America helping to pay for UNRWA? Why is anyone paying for UNRWA, for any reason other than anti-Semitism, pure and simple?
Let's stop giving money to UNRWA. Better yet, let's classify it a terrorist organization and kick it out of the country.
We've tolerated this farce for far too long.