• Terrorist Organizations use UNRWA officials and Facilities to Carry out Terrorist Activities by Dr, Reuven Ehrlich

Terrorist Organizations use UNRWA officials and Facilities to Carry out Terrorist Activities
Dr Reuven Ehrlich
Head of Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

See www.intelligence.org.il/eng/dec_m.htm

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Inside UNRWA:
Special Investigative Report
by Israel Resource News Agency

UNRWA, founded as a humanitarian agency, has subordinated its role as a service provider to a political agenda:

• It is the only UN agency dedicated exclusively to one group of refugees and establishes its own unique and expansive standards.
  
  As a result, hundreds of thousands, if not millions, who would not be counted as refugees anywhere else in the world (including descendants of refugees) are registered by UNRWA as refugees.

• It is predicated upon the notion of the "right of return"- a right that in fact does not exist within international law.
  
  As a result, it maintains a policy of keeping the refugees in a temporary situation until they can return to homes and villages in Israel left more than half a century ago (the vast majority of which no longer exist).
  
  It will not work to find realistic solutions to the plight of the refugees and will not consider resettlement as an option. Instead, it reinforces the goal of return with a number of practices within its 59 UNRWA refugee camps.

UNRWA has perpetuated the problems of the refugees:

• Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendants cannot get on with their lives. They live in "limbo," deprived of basic human rights.

UNRWA has fomented terrorism among the Palestinians:

• Refugees, encouraged by UNRWA to see themselves as entitled to a "return" that will never happen, believe they are being cheated.
  
  As a result, they are filled with frustration and rage, and turn to radicalism.

• Most of the 23,000 employees of UNRWA are themselves refugees, and they too are often associated with terrorist groups such as Hamas.

• It is in the UNRWA refugee camps that bombs are manufactured, recruitment is done, and suicide bombers are dispatched.

There will be no resolution of the current Palestinian-Israeli crisis, no genuine cessation of violence, until the refugee issue is realistically resolved.

• UNRWA officials dissemble on these issues, claiming to have no responsibility for what is transpiring-which in fact is not the case.
  
  They rarely even acknowledge the extent of the problem. The degree to which they turn a blind eye is suggestive of tacit approval if not complicity.

  It is time for an aroused international community to hold UNRWA accountable. The committed involvement of major UNRWA funders will be key.

Read the full report here.

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Previous Articles on UNRWA

• The Refugee Dilemma: A Day in the UNRWA Arab Refugee Camps by Shawn Cohen

• "40 Minutes in Palestine" by Michael Cohen

• Commonly Held Assumptions: Myth of a Demilitarized Palestinian State by David Bedein

• Why is the Shuafat Refugee Camp Seething? by David Bedein

• Clinton and the Right of Return by David Bedein

• Peace Only if '48 Refugees Return Home Al-Ahram Editorial

• Palestinian Refugee Issue Complicates Israeli-PA Negotiations by Julie Stahl

• Orient House Orients the Visitor to the Palestinian State by David Bedein

• The PLO: Aiming to Bring 300,000 Arab Refugees to the Galil by Uzi Benziman

• UNRWA Director Peter Hansen Opposes Solving Palestinian Refugee Problem Jerusalem Times

• Canada's role in the 'right of return' by David Bedein

• Has UNRWA Allowed Their Refugee Camps to Become the Host of Terror Activity? by David Bedein

• Arafat: "Camps De Jure are Under the Sovereignty of the UN and Operated by the UNRWA"

• The Battle in Jenin: An Assessment by Amir Rappaport and Roni Shaked

• UNRWA attacks Weeky Standard reporter David Tell -- and David Tell responds

• The View of UNRWA Refugee Camp Resident in Jordan: Right of Return PA Newspaper "A-Sabahh"

• Chairman of US House Task Force on Terrorism Calls for Inquiry of UNRWA by Congressman Eric Cantor

• Critics pressing U.N.R.W.A. by Rachel Pomerance

• Do UNRWA Schools Foster Violence? by Charles A. Radin

• Then Justice Minister Yose Beilin: Revelation that he Supported the "Right of Return" at Taba by Ari Shavit

• The Refugees' Choice: Another Look at UNRWA by Isabel Kershner

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