That this report has still not been released even as the Trump administration withholds millions from UNRWA testifies to the ongoing presence of Obama loyalists in the State Department, determined to sabotage the Trump policies. In any case, “Palestinian” “refugee” status is as much of a scam as the “Palestinian” nationality as a whole. It’s the only refugee status that is passed down to children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, and will never end unless the U.S. and others stop acceding to it and going along with the charade, as these “refugees” exist for the single purpose of being a stick that Muslim states can use to pummel Israel at the United Nations and elsewhere.
“State Department Hiding ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of Palestinian Refugees,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 18, 2018:
The State Department is hiding a classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could be a game changer in how the United States approaches the situation and allocates millions in taxpayer funds to a key United Nations agency, according to multiple sources briefed on the situation.
As the United States moves forward with a decision to slash funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency responsible for providing education and support to some five million Palestinian refugees, officials on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have been pressuring the State Department to declassify a report that is believed to show the actual number of refugees is far fewer than the U.N. claims.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told the Washington Free Beacon that the State Department first classified the report under the Obama administration and still refuses to provide U.S. officials with the information despite laws mandating its release.
The report was described to the Free Beacon as a potential tipping point in the debate over UNRWA and its mission, which has come under increased criticism in Congress for what many claim is the agency’s anti-Israel bias and routine promotion of pro-terrorism doctrines.
Some State Department officials have acknowledged in private meetings that there is no reason the report should remain classified, according to sources who said the over classification is part of an effort to suppress this information from Congress and the public.
“I was informed that there is no justification for classifying the report. Rather, it is the officials at State Department who do not want this information out as it could and would lead to a call to reform UNRWA,” said one source briefed on the matter.
While UNRWA provides support to some 5.3 million Palestinians they claim are refugees, the actual number could be closer to 20,000. This disclosure could fundamentally shift the narrative with UNRWA and lead the United States to consider cutting even more of its funding to the agency.
Currently, any U.S. official seeking to read the little-known report’s findings must have top-secret security clearance and access to a secure facility containing the documents.
Revelations of this classified report’s existence and the potential implications come as the Trump administration announced that it would slash UNRWA’s funding by half, from $125 million to $65 million, in order to force the organization to implement a series of reforms.
UNRWA has come under fire from pro-Israel activists and some lawmakers for anti-Israel bias and complicity with radical elements of Palestinian society.
In addition to reports that UNRWA is using anti-Israel content in its classrooms, it has been caught hiding Hamas rockets in its schools on at least three separate occasions.
The U.S. report on UNRWA was first commissioned in 2015 by former senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), who was spearheading an effort to increase the organization’s transparency.
Kirk forwarded a congressional amendment to require the State Department to provide Congress with a report on the number of refugees served by UNRWA who actually lived in the territory now known as Israel between 1946 and 1948.
The State Department never acknowledged having completed the report, sources said, and instead classified it.
“State had neglected to tell Sen. Kirk’s office,” said one source with knowledge of the situation. “It seems that this was intentional.”
Once the report’s existence was confirmed, Congress, in a 2017 measure, directed the State Department to provide an unclassified version of the report. This, too, was ignored, sources said.
The report is said to confirm that, as opposed to what UNRWA and its supporters claim, the number of refugees is actually in the tens of thousands, not the millions….
David Rasch says
It must be difficult taking the palestinian altworld seriously.
Sense and Sensibility says
@David Rasch
It ought to be difficult to take seriously, yes.
Nevertheless, it seems that their alt.world has somehow convinced billions of people all over the globe. Well-funded lying has been distressingly effective, yet again.
Abu Nudnik says
UNRWA is the single-greatest obstacle to an Arab-Israeli peace. It is heartening to see this White House understand that.
Rob says
Obama admin hid records from public view. Surprise, surprise. Picture of then-Senator Obama with vicious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan from 2005 has now emerged with the photographer saying that he was pressured to hide the embarrassing pic after he took it. Fits a pattern…his birth records, his college transcripts. Obama is as easily as or more devious than Nixon.
StellaSaidSo says
Yep. Far more devious, far more dishonest, and far more dangerous.
CRUSADER says
What are “Palestinians”?
(Has old Ancient Rome re-emerged?)
Aren’t these people part of the Jordanian population?
Jordanians, right?
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
It means zionist slave state thé evîl united states is to crackdown the palestinians in the evil united states on the order of the Master thé fascist evîl zionist state who have been slaughtering them at home. People of evil united states are truely wicked to the core. palestinians reached the evil united states when fascist evil zionists expelled them from their original homes and rendered them stateless. They dispersed into various countries seeking Refugee status guaranteed under UN Charter. The question is :could Domestic laws overide the treaty on Refugees It ratified ? The preponderance of Legal opinion is that once a state ratifies a multilatéral treaty It becomes part of its domestic Laws enforceable before courts of Law. It means savage mad devil Trump can be challenged before the law courts to restrain him from expelling palestinians with Refugee status once they are registered as such.
gravenimage says
The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:
It means zionist slave state thé evîl united states is to crackdown the palestinians in the evil united states on the order of the Master thé fascist evîl zionist state who have been slaughtering them at home.
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Actually, this article says nothing about the United States “to crackdown” on “Palestinians” in the US–instead, this report just shows that these Muslims have been dishonestly massively inflating their numbers.
And no–Isrealis are not slaughtering “Palestinian” Muslims–they are just defending themselves against the neverending Jihad against them. But then, Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that no Infidels have the right to resist Jihad.
More:
People of evil united states are truely wicked to the core. palestinians reached the evil united states when fascist evil zionists expelled them from their original homes and rendered them stateless.
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What rot. The “Paletinians” were not expelled from Israel–they left at the urging of their fellow Muslims who told them that Israel would soon be destroyed and all the Jews massacred. It didn’t turn out that way–Israel survived.
More:
They dispersed into various countries seeking Refugee status guaranteed under UN Charter. The question is :could Domestic laws overide the treaty on Refugees It ratified ? The preponderance of Legal opinion is that once a state ratifies a multilatéral treaty It becomes part of its domestic Laws enforceable before courts of Law.
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The idea that anyone seeking refugee status–notice, tellingly, Ibrahim itace muhammed does not say that these Muslims are actually refugees–can hence invade any country they like is just absurd.
Moreover, this study has absolutely nothing to do with Muslim immigration into the United States, as Ibrahim itace muhammed pretends.
He also does not say why his coreligionists would *want* to come to “evil united states”–except that he has said in the past that Infidels have no right to resist their lands being turned into vile Shari’ah hell holes.
More:
It means savage mad devil Trump can be challenged before the law courts to restrain him from expelling palestinians with Refugee status once they are registered as such.
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Of course, this study says nothing whatsoever about the US expelling “Palestinians”. Why is Ibrahim itace muhammed so dishonest?
And no–neither the United States nor any other nation is bound to take in any of these groups, as Ibrahim itace muhammed pretends.
don vito says
itass, savage mad devil erdogan killing moslems
LeftisruiningCanada says
“People of evil united states are truely wicked to the core”
People of dirty backwards Nigerian descent are truly wicked to the core.
Now what do we do?
LeftisruiningCanada says
“fascist evil zionists expelled them from their original homes and rendered them stateless”
Didn’t happen Ibrahim.
You won’t offer anything to support your statement, so all of this is pointless.
If this how you live your life Ibrahim? Just shouting at each other, last and loudest wins?
gravenimage says
State Department hiding report showing “Palestinian” “refugees” only number in tens of thousands, not millions
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Wait–so the “Palestinian refugees” number about 20,000 instead of 5.3 million? That means that the actual figures are just 0.0037% of what has been claimed.
Just stunning exageration–and the idea that this is the only group that has its own dedicated UN agency is ludicrous.
And UNRWA has been around since 1950–what other “refugee group” in history has been around for almost 70 years? It has also *grown*, rather than shrinking. It’s just ridicuous.
UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority receive one of the highest levels of aid in the world.
In 2013 UNRWA received *one billion dollars* in aid, almost all from Western nations–if distributed directly, this would work out to $50,000 for each “Palestinian” Muslim.
That would work out to considerably more than the per capita income of Israelis, and almost as much as annual income for Americans–and this does not even take into account monies that go directly to the Palestinian authority.
That means that the “Palestinian territories” should be one of the wealthiest places in the world–without these Muslims so much as lifting a finger.
Of course, so much of this money goes to the “Palestinian” kleptocracy:
“While complaining that ‘Palestinians’ will starve because of Trump’s cuts, PA buys Abbas $50,000,000 private jet”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/01/while-complaining-that-palestinians-will-starve-because-of-trumps-cuts-pa-buys-abbas-50000000-private-jet
Far worse, so much of this money goes to fund violent Jihad and murder Israelis.
gravenimage says
Oh, and one of the biggest contributors of aid is the Israelis–the very people the “Palestinians” are bent on destroying.
dsinc says
UNRWA is a scam to milk dollars from America and the EU to support “millions” of “refugees” UNRWA is the financial wing of Hamas. Let them go to the rich Arab Muslim states for charity. They won’t because they know that no Arab Muslim state would be conned by them.
AmnayGhuzyahu says
“Palestinians” have mastered the adage: “The bigger the lie, the more it’ll be believed”
The same actually goes for Islam…
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Leftruinigcanada, yes Nigeria and other black African countries are backwarded due to cruel colonisation and deprivations by wicked filthy mithraist Christian West who asked people in the churches to close their eyes,when opened It they found their resources stolen and repatriated to the West and their economies built, as Ngugi rightly described. After the the so-called independence, neocolonisation by western multinational companies emerge dictating fraudulent economic relations to continue soaking what remain and topple governments to perpetuate the deprivation of Black Africans.According to Sahara Reporters, an online media with HQs in the US, the western oil companies alone duped Nigeria of more than $400 billions. That is what cause people of Niger Delta or south southern Nigeria ,predominantly christians and Animists, to embark on valdalisation of oil pipelines belonging to these fraudulent western oil companies.
Ï am currently in one of the poorest black African countries rendering skill services to assist in reconstructing Its economy as my parents Who are Arabs from the middleast have been doing in Nigeria that earns them Nigerian citizenship by naturalisation. In fact my father is nicknamed “Itace(trees in Hausa “),because he grows economic trees at his house.
I know you despise Blacks ,and that is why White Westerners living in black Africa do not want mix with blacks as we Arabs do.There are many Arabs In black Africa Who are colored or blacks due to intermarriage with blacks as It is in Sudan, Chad and North-Eastern Nigeria. savage mad devil Trump even threatened in one of his élection campaigns that he was thinking of recolonising black African countries and reviving that cruel transatlantic slave trade.He recently made insulting remarks against black Africans. wicked mithraist christians !!
LeftisruiningCanada says
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6woods says
Oh my god, LeftisruiningCanada.
I haven’t laughed this hard in so long…thank you for that! I’m in tears, lol!
I’ve always thought that CrazyIbby was comedy gold!
LeftisruiningCanada says
He is. Glad to bring a chuckle your way 🙂