This is the point of it


By Advis3r
June 14, 2011
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Somewhere the anti-Semitic (no other word describes him/she/it adequately) blogger called Lukas has posited a question advanced by the equally anti-Semitic UNWRA Official Chris Guness. As the CIFWatch site has it:

Indeed, the idea of “man-made” misery would be more apt in describing his own organization’s role in perpetuating the plight of Palestinian “refugees” by continuing to prevent their assimilation into the Arab countries where they reside – UNWRA’s “man-made” policy which “impoverishes so many”.

Unlike all other refugee groups since 1948 (hundreds of millions were refugees as a result of WWII alone), including the 900,000 Jewish refugees from Arab lands (and their descendants), only Palestinian Arabs and their descendants are funded, generation after generation, in UNRWA funded and administered towns in Syria, Jordan, Lebanon and the PA.

Exploited and discriminated against by their host Arab countries, they have been denied the opportunity to lead normal lives, and resettle for one simple reason - so they can be used as a tool against the State of Israel.

Further, as research by NGO Monitor has demonstrated, the aid which UNRWA (generously funded by the EU) provides such “refugees” not only perpetuates generation after generation of dependency, but “UNRWA schools and other facilities are often used to teach hatred and encourage incitement; [and] the evidence demonstrates that UNRWA staff allowed terror related activities in its camps.”

Anyone truly concerned about the suffering of Palestinians would be lobbying Arab governments to immediately grant citizenship and full civil rights to their Palestinian populations, and use some of their Petrodollars to begin building schools and permanent housing for these “refugees” – granting them the opportunity to become productive and creative citizens.

To fully understand the inversion of reality necessary to believe in UNRWA’s refugee swindle, you need to take note of the following passage, about unemployment figures in Gaza, from the Reuters/Guardian piece:

“These are disturbing trends,” said UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness, “and the refugees, who make up two-thirds of Gaza’s 1.5 million population, were the worst hit.” [emphasis mine]Get it? Even Palestinians living in a sovereign, independent Palestinian-controlled and governed country are considered “refugees”!

The lies just go on and on the anti-Semites who unfortunately infest this website have no trouble in perpetuating them.

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Joe Millis

14 June, 2011 - 16:39

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While I agree with practically everything you have written here, Advis3r, the 900k Jews who fled or were forced out of the Arab and North African states in 1948 were not refugees. They were returnees, returning to the national homeland of the Jewish people. To call them otherwise is erroneous.

StevenKalka

15 June, 2011 - 14:19

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We need to remember a basic fact. No organization is better than its members. Just look at the members comprising the UN.

Why would we expect a UN affiliated agency to be any different?

Advis3r

15 June, 2011 - 15:53

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I do not agree that they were returnees - you have chosen to live in the UK and that government has not forced youout of the country. Notwithstanding the creation of the modern state of Israel I ma quite sure many Jews living in Arabic countries would have liked to saty there especially those who led successful lives however they were not given the choice. So they aren't returnees
For example US Law deines a refugee as - Any person who is outside any country of such person's nationality or, in the case of a person having no nationality, is outside any country in which such person last habitually resided, and who is unable or unwilling to return to, and is unable or unwilling to avail himself or herself of the protection of, that country because of persecution or a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, membership in a particular social group, or political opinion - i.e. the Jews were legally refugees.
The Geneva Convention says:“Owing to a well-founded dear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside his country of nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear is unwilling to avail himself of the protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear is unwilling to return to it.” By that definition the Jews were refugees too.
I suspect you have ulterior motives however and that is to deny the Jews who were forced to leave their possessions any form of recompense since that may scupper your plans to cede land which rightfully belongs to the Jews to an entity which was formed solely for the purpose of destroying the State you profess to support. Am I right?

Joe Millis

15 June, 2011 - 17:01

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You are wrong. I have no ulterior motive. They were returnees, to their national homeland. They werent refugees because they had somewhere to go. In the unlikely event that I were to live in Israel, again, I too would be a returnee, under the Law of Return.
As for compensation, although I think this is a ploy to either torpedo any peace deal or to get the Palestinians to lower their demands, it really is up to the two sides to decide. I have no dog in that fight.

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