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| August 8, 2013
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The Forgotten Refugees of 1948: Jews Exiled From Muslim Lands

 

 

The int’l community as well as mainstream media gushes over refugees, except when those refugees happen to be Jewish.

By Noah Beck

 

 

June 20 was World Refugee Day, dedicated to nearly 60 million people worldwide who were forcibly displaced by conflict or persecution. One group of refugees rarely acknowledged is the Jews who were indigenous to Muslim lands but compelled to flee around the time when the State of Israel was established.

Jewish Refugees – Israel Today

 

A Google search for “1948 refugees” produces about 6 million results. All but a few (at least through page six) are about the Palestinian Arab refugees, as if they were the only refugees of 1948. Continue Reading »

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| June 20, 2013
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The makings of the world’s preferred refugees

Unlike other refugees, be they Syrian, Libyan, or Sudanese, the Palestinians have their own funding, their own set of rules & qualifications, and even their own int’l agency to perpetuate the largest fraud and parasitic organization on the planet, the UNRWA.

By Amb. RON PROSOR 
 

 

For millions of refugees, World Refugee Day is a day like any other. From Mali to South Sudan and from Myanmar to Haiti, countless men, women and children will once again awaken today to an uncertain future.
Palestinian girl at UNRWA school [illustrative]

Palestinian girl at UNRWA school – Photo: Ali Hashisho/Reuters

They are aided in their perilous journey by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which works with governments to advocate and seek asylum for all refugees.
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| May 28, 2013
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UNRWA Billions to Palestinians refugees at the expense of all others worldwide

1. Palestinians, unlike any other refugee population in the world, pass on their refugee status from generation to generation.

2. Palestinians, unlike any other refugee population in the world, maintain their refugee status even when gaining citizenship in another country.

3. UNRWA’s facilities have been used by Palestinians as a launch-pad for terrorist activities.

4. UNRWA’s ambulances have been used by terrorists to shield their murderous activity from Israeli reprisal.

5. UNRWA’s educational facilities have been used to teach children to glorify martyrdom, extolling the virtues of jihad.

By Yoni Dayan

 

The time has come to admit the truth: The world cares more about the life of a Palestinian than the life of a Syrian, Sudanese, Kenyan, Colombian or Congolese. Continue Reading »

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| May 15, 2013
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UN Agency & Red Cross caught Delegitimizing Israel

A U.N. director comes under fire for photo op holding map that erased Israel.

The ICRC planted 150 trees that were named after convicted terrorists & murders.

 

A senior United Nations official was recently caught posing for a picture in Lebanon while holding “a map that erases the State of Israel and presents all of it as ‘Palestine,’” according to an Israeli media monitoring organization.

U.N. official holds map erasing Israel / palwatch.org

U.N. official holds map erasing Israel / palwatch.org screenshot

Ann Dismorr, director of the United National Relief Works Agency’s (UNRWA) Lebanon bureau, posed on May 3 on Arabic television holding a map that clearly erases the Jewish state of Israel and replaces it with “Palestine,” according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW), which posted several photos of Dismorr.

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| April 15, 2013
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VIDEO: How the U.S & Europe fund Palestinian hatred

The UN agency that administers most Palestinian schools is bankrolled by the EU & US, and it is using their tax money to perpetuate another generation of young Arabs to hate the Jews.

By Israel Today Staff

 

For Israel, the biggest obstacle to concluding a genuine and lasting peace agreement is that the Palestinians have been indoctrinated with a deep-seated hatred for the Jews, and therefore any deal is likely to fall apart at the first opportunity.

UNRWAAnd those portraying themselves as the overseers of this peace process are actually guilty of both initiating and perpetuating this phenomenon.

The first and greatest mistake of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process was importing Yasser Arafat’s PLO to speak for and rule the Palestinians. Continue Reading »

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| April 5, 2013
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UN aid distribution suspended in Gaza after rioters demanded more cash

66% of Gaza’s population, some 800,000 Palestinians have become dependent on the United Nations Relief & Works Agency’ free handouts of food & cash.

By Reuters

 

The main UN humanitarian agency for Palestinians said on Thursday it was suspending operations in the Gaza Strip after demonstrators angered by aid cutbacks stormed its headquarters.
The Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, October 6, 2012.


A Palestinian boy sits behind bags of flour donated by various aid agencies as part of their food assistance programs, in the Shati refugee camp, Gaza City, October 6, 2012. – Photo: AP

 

Some 800,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of Gaza’s population, depend on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the shuttering could exacerbate hardship caused by Israeli and Egyptian controls on the isolated enclave’s borders. Continue Reading »

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| March 10, 2013
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Israel’s Envoy seeks solution to end UN’s flawed Palestinian refugee status

 

Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor: The real obstacle to peace is right of return for Palestinian ‘refugees’, not settlements, adding, the transfer of status through the generations is “misguided.”

By BENJAMIN WEINTHAL & MICHAEL WILNER JERUSALEM

 

NEW YORK – At a small conference at the Harvard Club in Manhattan on Thursday, a host of dignitaries and experts, including Israel’s envoy to the UN Ron Prosor, addressed the UN’s classification of Palestinian refugees as the principal stumbling block to a peace agreement between Israel and the PLO.

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Dr. Daniel Pipes, a leading international expert on the Middle East, opened the conference, declaring that the Palestinian refugee situation is broken, sick, and detrimental to all involved.

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| January 6, 2013
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‘Palestine’ says “NO!” to UNRWA request to accept Syrian Palestinian refugees

Palestinians don’t want Palestinian refugees as Gaza & Ramallah both refuse UNRWA’s request to ‘help their brothers’.

Past calls to come to ‘Palestine’ were empty promises of help; were only made to rattle Israel.

By Aviel Schneider

 

The Palestinian governments in Gaza (Hamas) and the so-called “West Bank” (Mahmoud Abbas) have refused to take Palestinian refugees from war-ridden Syria.

Recently, the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which was created to handle the issue of Palestinian Arab refugees, asked the Palestinian governments to allow their brothers from Syria to enter.

Palestinian Arabs in Syria have had to flee their refugee camps under attack from Syrian rebels who view the Palestinians as supporters of dictator Bashar Assad. Continue Reading »

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| November 27, 2012
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Americans in Israel Sue Clinton for American Funding of Palestinian Terror

2 dozen Americans in Israel are suing Hillary Clinton for negligence, relying on the basis that they are among those that Congress sought to protect through the safeguards & regulations that the White House, State Department and USAID are disregarding.

By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu

 

Two dozen Americans in Israel are suing U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for negligence in allowing the United States to fund the Palestinian Authority, which used money for terror.

The suit was filed in a federal U.S. court in Washington by the Israel Law Center (Shurat HaDin), which has revolutionized the war against terror through “lawfare,” winning colossal lawsuits against terrorist organizations and banks that handle their funds. Continue Reading »

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| July 12, 2012
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The UN’s perpetual refugee machine

Op-ed: Instead of resolving Palestinian refugee problem, UN agency does everything to perpetuate it

By Yoaz Hendel

 

The relations between Israel and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) have known ups and downs. It’s a story that features familiar UN politics, and most of all, plenty of money.

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United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees

A few weeks ago, UNRWA officials decided to call off summer camps for Gaza Strip children. Israeli officials raised an eyebrow. Every year, the organization runs a loud campaign regarding the need for Gaza summer camps, Israel’s indifference that prevents the transfer of “summer camp goods” and the risk that children will end up turning to radical Islamic camps. Continue Reading »

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| June 22, 2012
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Why are only the Palestinians considered ‘refugees’?

Following Israeli urging, U.S. Congress asks the U.N. to clarify why Palestinians can transfer their “refugee” status to descendants  • The request could possibly change U.S. funding for UNRWA.

By Shlomo Cesana

 

 

The U.S. Congress has approached the U.N. looking for an explanation as to why only the Palestinians have been allowed to pass on the status of refugees from generation to generation.
Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in a recent video campaign about U.N. policy toward Palestinian refugees. | Photo credit: Foreign Ministry

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon in a recent video campaign about U.N. policy toward Palestinian refugees. - Photo: Foreign Ministry

According to official U.N. treaties, a refugee is defined, in short, as someone who was forced to leave his or her home due to persecution.

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| May 29, 2012
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Essay by Daniel Pipes: Counting Palestinian refugees

Only about 1% are real refugees who fit the agency’s definition of “people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 – May 1948, who lost both their homes & means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict.” The other 99% are descendants of those refugees, or what I call fake refugees.

 

 

The fetid, dark heart of the Arab war on Israel, I have long argued, lies not in disputes over Jerusalem, checkpoints, or “settlements.” Rather, it concerns the so-called Palestinian refugees.

So-called, because of the nearly 5 million official refugees served by the U.N.

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| May 29, 2012
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UN official criticizes Israel over ongoing Gaza blockade

UNRWA commissioner: ‘The people who really have been penalized are not the people in power in Gaza; it is the common people who are being impoverished by the blockade, but also the business community’

 

The UN official responsible for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday that Israel has been too slow to relax its blockade of Gaza, which has devastated the isolated economy and failed to achieve its security goals.

Israel and Egypt closed their crossings with Gaza to all but humanitarian aid after Hamas violently seized power in the coastal strip in June 2007, exacerbating poverty among the 1.4 million residents. Continue Reading »

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| May 28, 2012
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Is the U.N. making the Palestinian ‘refugee’ problem worse?

U.N. history experts say that the definition wasn’t changed until 1965, when over the objections of the U.S., UNRWA extended “refugees” to include children & grandchildren of those displaced between 1946 – 1949.

Until recently, few Americans ever heard of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). But then Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) got interested in what the agency, supposedly neutral in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was up to. As Jonathan Schanzer of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies reminds us:

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) is trying to get a handle on the real number of Palestinian refugees in the Middle East — a move that could result in a change of status for millions of Palestinians.

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| May 25, 2012
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US Senate Redefines ‘Palestinian Refugee’

The State Department and Jordan are unhappy that US lawmakers want to know how many “Palestinian refugees” actually lived in Israel in 1948

 

The US State Department and Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan are trying to block a Senate bill that would require an accurate accounting of how many ‘Palestinian refugees’ receive American aid dollars.

Deheishe "refugee camp" in Bethlehem

Deheishe "refugee camp" in Bethlehem - Reuters

The push came after the US Senate Appropriations Committee approved on Thursday language that would distinguish between Arabs who fled Israel in 1948 and their descendants.

The new language, introduced by Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), seeks to distinguish between those “whose place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who were displaced as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict; and who are descendants” of those people. Continue Reading »

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