For The Sake of Nakba

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The so-called "right of return" for Palestinian Arab refugees and their descendents is not a new idea. Yet this claim — that the refugees have the right to return to villages they left in 1948 — is now being promoted with a new vigor. Proponents of this position include the Palestinian Authority and a seemingly unlikely international advocate. That partner is UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestinian Refugees. UNRWA was established as a temporary agency 60 years ago in the wake of the 1948 war to aid the refugees in their plight, which they call the Nakba or catastrophe.

Funded by direct allocations from 38 democracies across the globe, UNRWA has an annual budget of more than one billion dollars. In recent years, its budget has ballooned, with US and EU each contributing more than $230 million a year. Other major donors include Canada, Japan, Norway and Australia.

While many assume they understand the plight of the refugees, their story is a complex and singular tale. It is a 60-year-old narrative of a people encouraged by UNRWA and the Palestinian leadership to remain as refugees, so that their steadfast goal of the "right of return" might be fulfilled, - which would create a Palestinian state that would essentially replace the state of Israel.

Those advocating the right of return claim that it has a legal basis in Resolution 194 passed in 1948 by the United Nations General Assembly. That resolution, which is actually nothing more than a non-binding proposal, has no basis in international law.

While it does say that refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so, it also speaks of resettlement of refugees in another country and compensation for those who do not return.

Sixty years ago UNRWA helped feed anywhere from 450,000 to 750,000 refugees from the 1948 war. Now, UNRWA recognizes not only the original Arabs who claimed to have been displaced, but their descendents as well. Thus the number of people on the UNRWA rolls has grown to more than 4 million. They live in and near 59 UNRWA camps in the West Bank, Gaza, Jerusalem, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

While UNRWA is responsible for the camp's education, health, relief and social service programs it leaves the day to day operations to local Palestinian known as "popular committees," who operate inside the UNRWA facilities.

Meanwhile, UNRWA spends about half of its budget each year — more than $500 million -- on schools. It has a massive payroll, employing more than 7,000 teachers. UNRWA does not produce its own textbooks. Its policy is to adopt the texts and curriculum of the host entity. In the West Bank and Gaza, it uses new textbooks and course guidelines produced and utilized by the Palestinian Authority.

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[astrix04]

Is this what Palestinians calls "education"???

to kill??? how to become a murderers?? Are those the same "poor Palestinians" which the world hugs blindly?????

Now, try to understand Israel's position...

[FlaviaR]

You can tell who is running the UN when they openly redefine the word 'refugee' JUST for these people! The sickest part? Even the 'Nakba Day' organizers now admit that their keys are 'symbolic' - because Israel has compensated EVERYONE who can prove they ever had a home in the land that they ABANDONED.

[rafoe10]

כל יהודי שרוצה לדעת את האמת על התרמית שקרויה "פלשתינה" ("פלסטין" בפי הערבים), שיקליק "מרד בר כוכבא" בויקיפדיה, ויבין מאיפה הגיע השם "פלשתינה".

מאז שנכבשה ממלכת החשמונאים (של סוף תקופת בית שני) ועד הקמת מדינת ישראל ב-1948 לא הייתה בשטחי ארץ ישראל שום יישות מדינית עצמאית.

אפילו בתקופת שלטון האיסלאם לא הייתה פה "פלסטין" עצמאית.

יותר מזה, אפילו תחת שלטון האיסלאם היה פה רוב יהודי.

הארץ הייתה במשך יותר מ-2000 שנה חלק מאימפריות.

כדי ללמוד עוד על נושא זה, הקליקו "ההסטוריה של ארץ ישראל" בויקיפדיה.

[ConstantC4]

I don't really think pouring aid money is worth anything if all it does is increace their population and free up resources for propaganda and fighting

[Ahuvaisrael]

Since years the UNWRA in GAZA is "playing" an antagonistic double role against Israel and the world and Mister Ban Ki-moon, general secretary of the UN are closing their eyes and mouths about it! It's a shame for the world and the UN!

[abbienetvision]

I suggest everyone read the article "Report: UN Teaches Jihad in Jerusalem" just out today (Aug.8,2010)

[odokokan]

closed unwra and you will end the so-called refugges preoblem

just like israel took care(with no help and financing from any one)of its milion jewisg refugees from arab countries,and milion others from europian conteies.

thos arabs have no righty to return to no where beside were they originaly imigrated from:egypt,algir,north africa,the balkans,and syria and turkey.

[brainouty]

Well put. This video is in my Timelines III (Anti-Semitism) playlist. There never was an Arab Palestine. Palesset refers to GREEKS; there is no 'return' (shub) for Arabs. THEY WERE NOT LIVING IN PALESTINE when the Porte began to sell the land to JEWS who drained and cleared and cultivated the wasteland. The Arabs came in as day laborers from Jordan and the Lebanon, Egypt. Only in 1948 when Israel won (and the Arabs refused to cooperate in governing) did the Arabs make up this lie of 'return'.