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.
“Congress Demands State Department Release ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of Palestinian Refugees,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 11, 2018 12:10 pm
Congress is pressuring the State Department to release a long classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could change the calculus on how the United States approaches the situation and allocates millions in taxpayer funds to a key United Nations agency, according to sources and a congressional letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Dozens of members of Congress have already signed on to an effort to force the release of this State Department publication, which sources say was originally classified by the Obama administration in order to keep the findings secret from the American public and lawmakers.
The Free Beacon first reported on the existence of this report in January, when national security insiders first began pressuring the Trump administration to uphold a U.S. law mandating the report be released in public. The report is said to have been marked classified in order to prevent public disclosure that the number of Palestinian refugees is far smaller than the United Nations claims.
Now, months later, the report still remains classified, prompting the large delegation of congressmen to order the State Department to uphold the law and make the report public, according to a draft letter circulating on Capitol Hill and viewed by the Free Beacon.
The report was described to the Free Beacon as a potential tipping point in the debate over the United Nations Relief Works Agency (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. The United States decided recently to cut taxpayer funding to UNRWA, the chief Palestinian refugee aid organization, as a result of the group’s longstanding anti-Israel bias.
Lawmakers are outraged the refugee report was classified in the first place and are demanding the Trump administration release the information as is required under U.S. law.
“The Obama State Department delivered the mandated report to Congress in classified form despite no apparent national security threat or known historical precedent for classifying such a report,” the delegation of lawmakers write. “We believe this classification was inappropriate and a deliberate attempt to conceal information from American taxpayers. The report should be declassified without further delay.”
While UNRWA provides support to some 5.3 million Palestinians they claim are refugees, the actual number could be closer to 20,000, according to sources familiar with the report. A disclosure of this nature could shift the narrative with UNRWA and lead the United States to consider cutting even more funding to the agency.
Rep. Doug Lamborn (R., Co.), one of the lawmakers leading the declassification effort, told the Free Beacon that Congress must have a complete picture of the Palestinian refugee situation in order to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funds are not being wasted.
“It is critical that Congress investigates the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operates under the United Nations (UN) using a different definition of a refugee for Palestinians than all other UN refugees around the world,” Lamborn said.
“Americans have sent UNRWA billions of dollars over the years to help bring peace to the region, but instead the agency has perpetuated a victimhood mentality for Palestinians,” Lamborn said. “Releasing this report to the American public is an important first step in recognizing reality in this difficult situation and bringing about much needed reform to UNRWA.”
The United States has provided some one billion dollars to UNRWA over the last four years. The total expenditure is nearly six billion dollars since UNRWA was founded in 1950.
Lawmakers who signed the letter to force declassification are concerned that U.S. taxpayer dollars continue to be wasted on an organization that they believe is operating under a false mandate.
“We are concerned that hard-earned American taxpayer dollars are not being used properly,” the lawmakers write. “Your withholding of funds from UNRWA in January on the condition that they reform was a tremendous first step. American taxpayers deserve to know how their tax dollars are spent on Palestinian refugees and their descendants.”
The original refugee report was legally mandated in 2012 under a congressional spending bill. The original bill instructed the State Department to report to Congress on the actual number of people who receive UNRWA’s refugee services, as well as what their place of residence was during the early conflicts that led to the establishment of Israel in 1948.
In 2015, the Obama administration finally produced the report, but marked it classified in what lawmakers and others believe was an attempt to suppress information revealing the number of actual Palestinian refugees is far lower than UNRWA claims to the public….
Skeezix says
Why is our government carrying water for throat cutters?
libertyORdeath says
Any US citizens seeing this should immediately contact their representatives and urge them to support the declassification and full release of this and any other report regarding the “Palestinian Refugee Crisis” and/or the UNRWA.
If you don’t make these representatives face up to the facts by voicing your opinion, they will again sweep it under the rug.
J D S says
There is no such thing as a legal Palestinian state it is legally non existent……
Using today’s maps can anyone tell us the boundaries of the “promised land” that, according yo the bIble, God gave the Israelites??? The land they have now was established by the UN and I’m positive it isn’t all the land given by God to them.
Berengaria says
I’ve always wondered where the Loyalty of the State Department is Invested? The Obama Administration Weaponized & Politicized all branches of Our Gov., so we know that the US GOV. Was Just An Arm Of the Democrat Party during his “Reign”. The Obama “LEFTOVERS” should be Ousted from their very lucrative Positions, they are a True Enemy of America. The Phony Palestinians are a Favorite Cause of Democrats, who care not one Bit for America.
Stacy Girl says
These deep state holdovers are too numerous to dismiss. You’d have to fire them all and have an inquisition before rehiring. After the past year I clearly understand things that confused me for years. Our government is deeply corrupt and beholden to our enemies. Keeping people dependent and stupid is the goal. At least Sarah Palin had the guts to call them out on Syria, the tar baby of the Middle East. Not one more drop of our blood for these savages.
Rarely says
Did she know where Syria was?
WPM says
The issue is not Sarah Palin knowledge of geography ,it is a traitor president sending billions to a foreign terrorist organization masquerading as a nation. Money base on fugazy numbers 5,300,000 -20,000= 5,280,000 only an error of 2140 percent. Keeping the report from the American I wonder if Clinton won would this report see the light of day? Those 20,000 “true refugees” should all be living in Mcmansions , how much money did the Fakeastianians leaders for life steal away on off shores accounts?
Peter says
WMP ,,,,,,,, it’s a LOT worse than 2,140 percent
Supposed “real” refugee numbers = 20,000
20,000 times 264 ( or 26,400 percent) = 5,280,000
26,400 PERCENT ………… WOW ……..
Kepha says
The problem isn’t Palin. It was Tina Fay (sp.?), the comedienne, who apparently didn’t know that the USA does share a border with RUssia, since Big and Little DIomede Islands are less than five miles apart. It’s all the worse that our Faux-siphticated East Coast folks (of whom I am one) also are so ignorant of geography that they don’t know their own country’s borders and think that said Tina was actually a wit rather than downright stupid. And, as for Africa being a “country”, I only wish I had a green five dollar bill for every liberal and socialist I’ve known who labored under the same misunderstanding, as well as for every liberal and socialist I’ve known who thought Japanese and Lao were “dialects” of Chinese. Hmmpf.
GPT says
The Middle East is the tar baby of the world
brane pilot says
How can government employees openly violate the law and a direct order from congress, and still keep their jobs?
Why are the persons responsible not fired and told to clean out their desks?
Government employment is not an entitlement.
Maximus says
Maybe that’s where Pompeo comes in…and fire their asses…
Buraq says
The real refugees are those Gazans who have fled from Hamas’ violent rule. There are around 6,000 Arab refugees from Gaza living in Athens, would you believe! And they say openly that they fled Hamas, not because of Israel.
The article with the info is here: it makes fascinating reading.
http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/gazans-in-greece-we-fled-hamas-not-israel/2017/06/06/
Abu taleb says
But probably most Palestinians are supporting Hamas or PA in the goal of destroying Israel because of Islamic teaching.
Muslims may slice each other’s throat but they share the same view against theJews and other non muslims.
gravenimage says
And Muslims fleeing Hamas fled *to Israel*, which they supposedly fear so much. Then they complained that Israeli security took the time to disarm Muslims that entered, rather than just letting them flood in. What gall.
Manny Lopez says
Thank you for covering news, on a daily basis, that would never see the light of day. And thank you for your continuing courage in the face of slanderous and personal safety attacks.
mummymovie says
As “refugees” go, the only ones who hold a candle to the so-called “Palestinians” in terms of perpetuity of “refugee” status are everyone’s favorite moslems, the ubiquitous and ever-multiplying Somalis.
They leave to go home for vacations and family visits, for crying out loud! Why are they still being afforded the “refugee” status that allows these foot soldiers of the hijra to continue invading the civilized world?
Stacy Girl says
As a former Minnesotan, I can tell you they’re everywhere from the Mall of America to the Wisconsin Dells. Most of their crimes go unreported and unsolved. Very surprised the FGM doctor was even brought up on charges. Each one is a sponge, sopping up free stuff.
mummymovie says
Yeah, it’s such a shame about Minnesota. What a tragedy… But then again, we’ve all got it coming, if the powers that be have their way, and decisive action isn’t taken to curb the corrupt and lucrative, taxpayer-funded resettlement volags from continuing to sprinkle these people throughout our communities across America.
I’m well acquainted with the problems the introduction of Somalis presents, unfortunately: My neighborhood is ground zero for Somali and Rohingya resettlement, and they have turned this particular area of the city into a dumping ground increasingly resembling a third world township.
Anyone who’s been around them for any length of time knows they have absolutely no interest in assimilating or becoming productive members of society.
And yet they keep coming.
J D S says
…..They keep coming… Why?
JM says
Mahmoud Abbas leads a lavish lifestyle that almost no legitimate head of state in the world would dream of, including a new private jet.
“Jan 25, 2018 – Mahmoud Abbas has bought a $50m private jet, according to unverified report in the Jordanian newspaper, Assabeel. The newspaper quoted Israeli media saying $30m came from the Palestinian National Fund and $20m from the Palestinian Authority’s budget”.
Link:
http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/arabic-press-review-abbas-buys-private-jet-jordanian-media-claims-1161502378
But not to worry, it’s not a fancy aircraft. “It’s a version of the familiar Boeing 737-700 airliner that you and I might travel on.”
This is the same Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, who provided financing for the terrorist attack that killed 11 Israeli athletes at the 1972 summer Olympic Games in Munich, Germany. But one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter, right?
President Trump is entirely correct to call this murderer’s bluff, and to expose the Palestinian refugee scam and its underlying web of lies, terror, and genocidal aspirations regarding Israel and all Jews.
emmett says
It is understandable that moslem jihadist would ” GO MOSLEM ” and do their jihadist duty, but WHY THE HELL would leftist JEWS and leftist of all stripes, help the jihadist ? WHY THE HELL would any decent human support these SAVAGES ?
libertyORdeath says
For the same reason that the US sided with the USSR in WWII, or how the US trained and armed the mujahadeen in Afghanistan during their war with the Soviets.
They do it to expand their agenda, just like the left’s support for illegal immigration.
More Immigrants = More Democrat Votes
More Muslims = More Democrat Votes
More Africans = More Democrat Votes
Or at least that’s how they figure it.
gravenimage says
Most Leftist Jews–like most Leftist Gentiles–are just in denial over Islam being a threat.
eli says
“Palestinian” status was granted by UNWRA in 1948 to any Arab who had been living under the British mandate of Palestine, for a whole two years. This of itself indicates that there must have been an awful lot of recently arrived Arabs from neighbouring countries, otherwise there would have been no need for such a classification. The issue is thoroughly documented in Joan Peters’ “From Time Immemorial”. On the other hand, there has always been a Jewish population in the land of Israel, albeit heavily decimated on account of ethnic cleansing and forced conversions by various invaders throughout the ages. (Furthermore, the British mandate of Palestine included Jordan which was all supposed to be part of the Jewish homeland, what Churchill called “a small notch in the Middle East”. About 80% of that was carved up to be given to the newly created Hashemite dynasy. The small remaining land area was further carved up into indefensible borders, the “Auschwitz borders”.
Most, if not all, of the Arab countries have racist laws against “palestinian” “refugees” effectively preventing them from settling in their countries and thus creating an artificial construct of the hereditary “refugee”.
On a broader note, there used to be a rich religious, linguistic and cultural diversity in the Middle East until the Arab Muslim colonialist invaders stamped it out, leaving only a few pockets of survivors of their total conquest. Jews have been indigenous peoples of the Middle East for thousands of years, and it is only on account of conquest and expulsions that there are Jewish communities around the world. The majority of Israeli Jews are dark-skinned, many are descendants of the 1492 expulsion from Spain and more recently from the Maghreb, but when racist Leftists visit Israel they assume that the people they see are Arabs when in fact they are Jews.
It is the Arabs who are occupying Israel not the other way around.
JM says
Excellent summary, Eli.
Indiana Tom says
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.
Even Muslims in the Middle East know this.
https://www.amazon.com/Now-They-Call-Infidel-Renounced/dp/1595230440
b.a. freeman says
In 2015, the Obama administration finally produced the report, but marked it classified in what lawmakers and others believe was an attempt to suppress information revealing the number of actual Palestinian refugees is far lower than UNRWA claims to the public….
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this is Yet Another indicator that mr. obama, traitor extraordinaire, used classification to his advantage, not the nation’s. when his secretary of state, ms. clinton, abused classified information, putting it at risk of exposure, all was OK, because she didn’t *intend* to harm anything. she was just incompetent. oops, i mean that *i* am incompetent, because i deigned to question her motives, which were no doubt pure. when, OTOH, mr. obama wanted to continue throwing *my* money around to criminals, he classified the report he was forced to produce to hide his misbehavior. what a great man. he is *certainly* the most successful traitor in our history.
e.j merkel says
Oh, if only I was able to do it all over again. I’d become a federal government employee. To think I wasted 42 years in the business sector. Had I told the managers of either of the two major financial services companies I worked for that i was not going to release a report, I would have been terminated immediately and frog-marched out the front door, deposited on the sidewalk. In the private sector it’s generally known as insubordination, which is a terminal offense. Oh…and I’d probably have that 70% pension as well. Boy oh boy, did I screw up.
Marilyn Griffin says
Two things. First, what reasonable excuse could there possibly be to classify US information concerning refugees of another country?? Second, since when, and how are they getting away with this, are government agencies allowed to refuse any nonclassified information requested by congress?? Even classified info is shared, when requested, with the congressional committees overseeing those agencies, Isn’t it? Why is Congress allowing these agencies to act like this? Why is the FBI allowed to raid a lawyer’s office and take files having nothing to do with reasonable cause, any other aspect of our laws and nothing that falls under the auspices and regulations of that agency?? Do our laws mean nothing to people in our government anymore? We have watched Obama make inroads around the law by refusing to turn over certain document’s and hiding them in the allocations for his presidential library, none of which, of course, will ever be seen again.
Hogdude says
No more Obama supporters in our government. He’s history. We need new people who don’t have divided loyalties. Now.
gravenimage says
Congress demands State Department release “game changer” report on myth of “Palestinian” refugees
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Let’s see it.