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State Dept. Complicit in Weaponizing UN Against Israel
[NewsMax] On April 18, 2018, 51 Members of Congress signed a letter to President Trump requesting that he order the declassification of a document which was classified "despite no apparent national security threat or known historical precedent for classifying such a report."...The document in question is a 2015 State Department report drawn up pursuant to a 2012 directive from Congress to account for how the billions of U.S. tax payer dollars, allocated to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) ‐ the entity charged with dealing with the "Palestinian refugees" ‐ were being used ... or perhaps, abused. ...To fully grasp the scope and significance of the UNRWA/Palestinian anomaly, one must realize that all refugees on the face of the globe ‐ whether because of famine, earthquakes, tsunamis, political repression or warfare ‐ are under the auspices of the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) ‐ except for the Palestinians. They have a specially designated UN body ‐ UNRWA ‐ to deal exclusively with their affairs. The two bodies have very different definitions of who is a refugee, and very different mandates of how to deal with them. In broad brush strokes, according to the generally applicable UNHCR definition, refugee status is not hereditary and cannot be transferred to descendants of the originally displaced/expelled individuals; while according to the Palestinian-specific UNRWA definition, it is hereditary, and can be transferred to descendants. ...Much has been written about UNRWA’s pernicious behavior ‐ employing known members of terror organizations such as Hamas, allowing its installations and vehicles to be used by such organizations and disseminating vicious Judeophobic incitement in its school curricula. But beyond its malicious misconduct and abuse of its UN credentials, the most sinister aspect of UNRWA is in its inherent nature and its underlying raison d’etre. For in essence, UNRWA exists to perpetuate the myth of "Return" ‐ whereby millions of Palestinians-Arabs will return to inundate Israel and effectively eliminate it as the nation-state of the Jewish people. And that's why everybody loves it! Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-04-29 |
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