UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) may be the only humanitarian organization in the world that knowingly does harm to the people it was founded to help.
Founded in 1949 by the UN, UNRWA is the largest, and oldest agency of the United Nations, employing over 25,000 staff members (99% of which, are locally recruited Arabs). It currently has about 5,000,000 Palestinian registered" Refugees", due to a very broad definition of a refugee- including not only refugees themselves but their descendants in perpetuity.
Just as a comparison - UNHCR, which is the UN's agency that supports refugees around the world had 6,351 employees throughout 117 states it is active in. As of 2007, the amount of refugees under its mandate was about 21,000,000 (twenty-one million!!) and its definition of a refugee was much narrower.
But whereas UNHCR strives to settle the refugees under its mandate, UNRWA's mandate, exclusive to the Palestinian refugees would be immediately terminated should the Palestinian ever cease to be refugees. And so, UNRWA does whatever it can to keep them at this status for years to come.
Here are just a couple of examples to this cruel and cynical organization that pretends to be a humanitarian organiztion:
- During operation Protective Edge, UNRWA reported that "in the course of the regular inspection of its premises, UNRWA discovered rockets hidden in a vacant school in the Gaza Strip". Although condemning the use of its facilities for weapon storage - UNRWA handed the rockets to the "authorities", namely - HAMAS. While it is a well known fact that UNRWA's facilities are regularly being used to launch and store rockets, this was the first time UNRWA admitted this.
- UNRWA operates schools for Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank East Jerusalem, Jordan and Syria. The curriculum, surprisingly, is far from humanitarian. It establishes the notion that the Jews are evil conquerors that shot, raped and arrested their grandparents, chasing them to refugee camps. The truth is far from that- the people we call Palestinians today, are the decedents of Arabs that lived in Israel when the 1948 Arab-Israeli war broke and either fled, or were instructed by the Arab forces to vacate the area to allow easier extermination of the Jews. When the war ended, to their dismay, they found themselves on the wrong side of the border. The Arabs that did not flee are now full citizens of Israel, enjoying probably the highest quality of life, freedom and human rights than most of their brothers and sisters in the Arab world... Anyway, UNRWA's education system continues planting the idea of the Right of Return in the minds of young children, raising additional generations that learn to hate the Jews, thus rendering the "two-state solution" impossible. See for yourselves:
Next time you hear the name UNRWA - ask yourselves: What is its role, and why has it existed for so long? Why are the Palestinians so reliant on it, and why has their refugee status remained and hasn't changed to reflect citizenship neither of Gaza or the West Bank despite the fact that the "Two State Solution" was offered to them several times.
Is it in the Palestinian people's best interest to continue being so dependent on UNRWA or to be self reliant?
Whose bidding does UNRWA do by imprinting Palestinians children with false aspirations to re-colonize Jaffa, Tel-Aviv, Askelon and other Israeli cities?
How about UNRWA's web of relationships with Hamas terrorists, some of which are actually employed by UNRWA. Is that a worthy use for donations given to UNRWA in order to help the Palestinians?
What a waste...
