Even the UN’s harshest critics, among whom I count myself, have to admit: it’s consistent.
“UN refugee agency under scrutiny for terror links,” by David Bedein, World Israel News, August 14, 2017:
The United Nations refugee agency is under scrutiny by the United States Congress and the Knesset for links to terrorism.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, allocates $1.2 billion from 68 donor nations to 59 “temporary” Arab refugee camps that were established in the wake of the Arab-Israel war in 1948.
At that time, half a million Arabs fled the nascent State of Israel.
The UNRWA refugee population now encompasses five million descendants of Arab refugees from the 1948 war. UNRWA schools indoctrinate their to return to villages their grandparents left in 1948, even though these villages have dissappeared [sic].
Over the last few years, our agency has filmed and documented that Hamas conducts military training for UNRWA children in it weapons training camps.
Kids are handed machine guns and schooled for war, while top Hamas officials on site encourage jihad, and lecture on the importance of taking back their villages – by force of arms.
Once again this summer, Hamas runs military programs with live weapons for tens of thousands who attend UNRWA schools during the school year.
Al-Kutla al-Islamiya, a division of Hamas, which runs UNRWA military classes, instructs UNRWA children how to fight, shoot lethal weapons, and use hand grenades in preparation for their war for the “right of return.”
After exposure to al-Kutla, UNRWA elementary and middle schoolers join a week-long war games program, held in a military encampment, where they study “jihad, determination, to trust Allah and other Islamic values.”
Without batting an eye-lash, a bonafide UN agency violates the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, which states that “children should not be forced or recruited to take part in a war or join the armed forces.”
One might think that UNRWA would object to Hamas recruiting students to become terrorists. The opposite is the case. On the record, the Hamas Minister of Religion told us in a filmed interview that “Hamas’ relationship with UNRWA is good, very good!” In addition, Hamas has a long history of promoting UNRWA educators and admistrators to top positions. Its founder, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, was a teacher in the UNRWA school system for 17 years. And its unions have been controlled by Hamas for decades. Last spring, UNRWA’s former union head Suhail al-Hindi was named to the Hamas cabinet, along with UNRWA’s infrastructure chief Muhammad al-Jamassi.
While the US is the leading Western donor to UNRWA, doling out $400 million each year to this Palestinian refugee agency, there has been little American oversight of UNRWA.
On paper, binding legislation was passed by the US Congress back in 2003 requires UNRWA to vet personnel to see if there are terrorists on the payroll.
Yet the US has never asked UNRWA to vet its personnel….
Knesset Member Avi Dichter, who chairs the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Security Committee, points a harsh finger at UNRWA, warning that “almost 100 percent” of UNRWA workers in Gaza are active in the Hamas terrorist organization.”
ploome says
https://www.unrwa.org/careers/working-unrwa
UNRWA has over 30,000 employees, most of them Palestine refugees and a small number of international staff, in two headquarter offices (Gaza and Amman), five field offices (Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and West Bank), and in four Representative/Liaison Offices (New York, Geneva, Brussels and Cairo).
(5.3 million ‘refugees’ registered by UNRWA-30,000 employees)
http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/figures-at-a-glance.html
Staff figures
Our staff are the backbone of UNHCR. As of 30 June 2017, we employ 10,966 staff members, of whom around 87 per cent are based in the field.
We work in 130 countries, with staff based in a mixture of regional and branch offices and sub and field offices. Our staff work hard to help the displaced, specializing in a wide range of disciplines, including legal protection, administration, community services, public affairs and health.
(10,966 staff work for UNHCR=17.3 million refugees)
Mike Blackford says
Another huge buracricy, voted in by no one, funded by the poor taxpayers money, no reasonable over sight, with the sole mission of social engineering.
gravenimage says
UN refugee agency under scrutiny for links to jihad terror
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They’ve been doing this for decades.
That UNRWA even exists any more after almost seventy years would be ludicrous even if they were not so malignant–after all, there are no more agencies working on resettling people in the wake of WWII.
Robeaver says
What do you call an Islamic woman with an opinion???????
What ever you want as she has alredy been stoned to death. !!!
Hahahahahahahahahaha.
mortimer says
The Palestinian population would have been absorbed into Jordan if the world and Jordan had left alone and allowed that to happen. With all the money sent to corrupt Palestinian politicians over the years everyone of the 5 million descendants calling themselves ‘Palestinian’ could now be millionaires.
Rob says
Palestinians were expelled from Jordan as they tried to take over. They also wrecked Lebanon.
gee says
And Syria and Kuwait. Just about every place they went they attempted to overthrow the regime
Carolyne says
As Muslims are now doing in Western Europe and Canada.
Baucent says
Another UN scandal (UNESCO is another joke as is the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva). These agencies are stacked with Israel haters and funded largely by financial contributions from the US and Western countries, supposedly friendly with Israel.
Carolyne says
My concern is more with the wellbeing of the United States and IMO the UN is an anti-American entity and should be expelled from New York and all funding from US taxpayer money should be stopped.
Robeaver says
Yes. THEE answer take away funding. Wait, there may be some oil money in arabia(courtesy of the US rightards) to fund the UN.
It must be removed from US soil and the West must abandon it. Expand NATO, now that Donald knows what it is, to include Scandinavia and other non Islamic countries..new Zealand, Australia, Brazil, etc.
Then we begin.
Bob says
The entire UN is a scandal,, becoming increasingly muslim-dominated. Islamic terror isn’t so much as remarked upon!
Northern Virginiastan says
The UN Rocket Warehouse Authority
LB says
Is anyone seriously surprised by this? The UN as a whole is practically an OIC sharia tool for enforcing islam worldwide.
Creole Gumbo says
So the UN is a muslim front group. What else is new?
Rob says
And stupid (or complicit) Western societies foot the bill. The U.N. is so corrupt that it probably stinks up NYC. And, thanks to the U.N., thousands of “hate America” tools get a safe pass into the U.S.