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Kushner said pushing to close UNRWA, end refugee status for Palestinian millions

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/kushner-said-pushing-to-end-refugee-status-for-millions-of-palestinians/

Jared Kushner, US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law, has been pushing to remove the refugee status of millions of Palestinians as part of an apparent effort to shutter the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, a report on Friday said.
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Uniquely, UNRWA grants refugee status to all descendants of Palestinians who left or fled Israel with the establishment of the state in 1948, swelling the number to an estimated five million at present, when the number of actual refugees from that conflict is estimated to be in the low tens of thousands. In peace talks, the Palestinian leadership has always demanded a “right of return” to Israel for these millions — an influx that, if accepted by Israel, would spell the end of the Israel as a majority Jewish state.
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It's time to stop this farce called UNRWA. There won't be any "right of return".
 
Here is the truth from Palestinian "refugee" about how the PLO and UNRWA using the "refugees" to get money and support-
 
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Here is the truth from Palestinian "refugee" about how the PLO and UNRWA using the "refugees" to get money and support-
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None of this is new.
From 1961(!!!)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1961/10/the-arabs-of-palestine/304203/

One of the most fascinating things in the article is how the author, just 15 year off the tail end of WWII and less tike off Korea, India etc has a much better contextual understanding of how the world was back then and the realities that people everywhere dealt with. And how utterly abnormal and unusual the perpetual Palestinian refugee was at the time.

Everyone would benefit from a read through, particularly those who continue to blindly perpetuate the institutions which maintain this tragic institution.

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-announces-its-cutting-all-funding-to-palestinian-refugee-agency/
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday it is cutting nearly $300 million in planned funding for the UN agency that aids Palestinian refugees, and that it would no longer fund the agency after decades of support. Instead, it said it would seek other channels by which to aid the Palestinians.

The administration castigated the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) for failed practices, and indicated that it rejected the criteria by which UNRWA defines Palestinian refugees, whereby the UN agency confers refugee status not only on original refugees but on their millions of descendants.
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“The fundamental business model and fiscal practices that have marked UNRWA for years – tied to UNRWA’s endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries – is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years,” the statement said, a reference to the fact that the agency grants refugee status to all the descendants of the original Palestinian refugees, something not granted by the UN to refugees from any other places.
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US cutting all funding to UNRWA.
 
They should increase the money going to the Palestinians in the so-called refugee camps - just not through funding that organization.
Closing UNRWA is a step in the right direction.
 
Apocalypse said:
They should increase the money going to the Palestinians in the so-called refugee camps - just not through funding that organization.
Closing UNRWA is a step in the right direction.
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No IMO they shouldn’t. The money should either be redirected to genuine refugees elsewhere or invested in relocating Palestinian “refugees” into permanent housing in willing countries. No need to keep 3rd and 4th generation descendants stateless and in internment camps in Lebanon, for example. Better to dismantle those camps and use the money to find them citizenship in one of the other 23 Muslim countries and let them move on with their lives like the millions of other refugees from other conflicts. Doesn’t mean they can’t move to Palestine and become citizens if the Palestinians ever take a peace deal at some point in the future.


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