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UN agency for Palestinians says it could be forced to halt some services
[IsraelTimes] UNRWA, the UN agency for Paleostinian refugees, is experiencing a financial crisis that could force it to halt some services to an already impoverished population of more than 5 million people, the head of the agency says.Philippe Lazzarini also warns in an interview with The News Agency that Dare Not be Named in Beirut that the spread of coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague) ...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men... , an economic meltdown in Leb  ...an Iranian colony situated on the eastern Mediterranean, conveniently adjacent to Israel. Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects. The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. The Lebs maintain a precarious sectarian balance among Shiites, Sunnis, and about a dozeen flavors of Christians. It is the home of Hezbollah, which periodically starts a war with the Zionist Entity, gets Beirut pounded to rubble, and then declares victory and has a parade. The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...and a huge deficit in UNRWA’s budget are deepening the hopelessness among Paleostinian refugees, some of whom are trying to flee the Mediterranean nation on migrant boats. UNRWA’s financial crisis was sparked by the loss of all funding from the United States, its largest donor, in 2018. The US gave $360 million to UNRWA in 2017, but only $60 million in 2018, and nothing last year or so far this year. US President Donald Trump ...Oh, noze! Not him!... said in January 2018 that the Paleostinians must return to peace talks with Israel to receive US aid money. He has since put forth a plan for resolving the conflict that was rejected by the Paleostinians. "I do believe that ceasing our activity in a context where there is such a level of despair, such a level of hopelessness, can only fuel the feeling that the Paleostinian refugees are abandoned by the international community," says Lazzarini, who took office in March. Lazzarini says supporting UNRWA "is one of the best investments in stability in the region at a time of extraordinary unpredictability and volatility." "We cannot let the situation get worse in a highly volatile region," he says. Trump’s administration, along with Israel, accuses UNRWA of perpetuating the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict by extending refugee status to millions of descendants of Paleostinians who fled or were forced out of homes in today’s Israel at the time of the establishment of the Jewish state in 1948, rather than limiting refugee status only to the original refugees as is the norm with most refugee populations worldwide. Posted by: trailing wife 2020-09-18 |
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