Prior to Donald Trump cutting funding to the “irredeemably flawed” UNRWA, America was its largest donor. During the eight years of the Obama administration alone, the United States gave UNRWA over $2 billion. Yet UNRWA is a corrupt organization where the number of Palestinian “refugees” are still ever growing. Historically, as Palestinian Media Watch reports:
UNRWA was established in 1949 when approximately 726,000 Arabs (according to UN figures) who had been displaced during Israel’s War of Independence were put under UNRWA’s care. Incredibly the number has grown today to 5,700,000 across 58 camps.
Aside from being a fraud, as well as a shabbily run organization, UNRWA has a reputation of spreading hate and terror. Palestinian school textbooks produced by the UNRWA contain antisemitic, hateful and violent passages. The organization, which emphasizes its “humanitarian” work, is essentially a tool of the Palestinian jihad.
In 2021, the president of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), Nazhat Shameem Khan, cut off UN Watch during a UNHRC session after the NGO began quoting antisemitic posts by UNRWA officials. See more about UNRWA’s jihad against Israel HERE, HERE and HERE. Six months ago, a UN Watch review of UNRWA operations in Palestinian schools found that six teachers repeatedly and publicly called for the murder of Jews. Rather than fire them, they were only placed them on administrative leave.
Throwing money at UNRWA is essentially funding terror, but Joe Biden will likely do just that. In 2021, after the Trump cut, Biden’s handlers resumed taxpayer funding of UNRWA with no conditions.
“UN agency for Palestinian refugees seeks $1.6bn in funding,” Al Jazeera, January 24, 2023:
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has appealed for $1.6bn for its work in 2023 after its head warned it was struggling to fulfil its mandate due to spiralling costs and shrinking resources.
UNRWA, which provides services to nearly six million Palestinians registered in the occupied Palestinian territories and neighbouring countries, warned that “compounding challenges” had placed it under “immense strain”.
“Compounding challenges over the last year including underfunding, competing global crises, inflation, disruption in the supply chain, geopolitical dynamics and skyrocketing levels of poverty and unemployment among Palestine refugees have put immense strain on UNRWA,” the agency said in a statement.
The agency, which has nearly 30,000 staff – most of them Palestinian refugees – runs more than 700 schools that offer education to half a million children, and provides health, sanitation and social services, including food and cash assistance.
The refugees mostly live in camps that have been transformed into built-up, but often underserved, residential areas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, as well as Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
In the besieged Gaza Strip alone, which has been blockaded for more than 15 years, the agency once helped more than half of the enclave’s roughly two million population.
Of the $1.6bn requested, UNRWA said $848m was needed for such core services.
It said another $781.6m was needed for emergency operations……
Scotsman48 says
23% of the Worlds population are people of the Caucasian Race, European heritage, and yet it is the other 77% of the various peoples, Races, that want to get into the countries of the 23% or receive monies from the 23% otherwise the people of the 23% are all terrible people…
However none of the mega rich Middle Eastern islamic Nations take in ONE single ”refugee” nor hand them housing,money or special food but the people in the counties of the 23% are the bad guys…
Am I missing something here.
Trump cut back on the amount of money America handed to Pakistan and the morons in that backward shithole came out screaming about how awful racist America is and then screamed death to America, death to Israel, death to the Jews but Old Joe refunded them and asked them to please stop calling us bad names… WTF ???
Cephas H says
Last time I looked, Azeris, Turks, Syrians, Iranians, Iraqis, and a number of other Muslims peoples were also counted under “Caucasian” back in the bad old days of scientific racism.
Re the Falastin Arabs and their descendants–the time is long past due for the Arab states to give the fifth-generation descendants of an-Nakhbar citizenship, rather than keeping them stateless. The Arab street and government-run media always uses the light of the poor, poor Palestinians as and excuse to trach a US diplomatic mission; yet the USA has given passport-holding, property rights, voting rights, public office-eligible citizenship to more victims and descendants of an-Nakhba than any seven Arabic-speaking countries put together, with the exceptions of Hashemite Jordan and Israel itself.
OLD GUY says
Maybe without all the American tax dollars funding the Palestinian fraud and terrorist this fight with Israel would die in the wind. Why are we funding $2 billion dollars to these people? If they had to work to survive they wouldn’t have time to be terrorist.