American taxpayers have been subsidizing educators who call for the murder of Jews. Suspending these funds isn’t enough. UNRWA must be abolished for good.
The ugly truth is that the UN has failed its mission in every way. It was founded on the naive supposition that the entire world shares Judeo-Christian values. When the Muslim world adopted a separate declaration of “Human Rights” (the Cairo Declaration) in 1990, recognizing only those rights which are in accordance with Sharia law (aka not equal rights for all), the writing should have been on the wall. It should be clear now to anyone with eyes to see that the value of human life and dignity that we take for granted is not shared the world over: not by the Chinese Communists, not by Islam, not by dictators like Putin, and not by the organizations which our leaders’ arrogant and blind childishness have allowed to rot from the inside. They allowed the adherents of the aforementioned ideologies to take over the UN, et al, by taking at face value the lies about a common mission of peace when on the ground Muslim and Communist leaders and staff actually work for corruption, death, and destruction. At this late date, our so-called leaders are still more afraid of bogus claims of “racism” (neither Islam nor communism is a race) than they are of handing the world and their own children over to hostile and murderous ideologies. You cannot make common cause with Muslims or with Communists. To do so is not to “turn the other cheek” or to be merciful. To do so is sheer stupidity and condemns your children to perpetual war and terror. Call your congress people and tell them to defund the UN. Then vote accordingly.
UN is not fit for purpose. It should be shut down; the buildings can be used as DeTransification & DeMarxification centers. I'm a fan of editorial cartoons, which are greatly missed from media (killed by NYT); I came across a good one about UNRWA and posted it on X w/link to this article. I noticed to my surprise that @freepress doesn't have a ✔️! And here I just bought a subscription to FP – figured I'd have to put my $ where my mouth is…
Muslim Arab Americans are threatening not to vote for Biden if he does not stop the Israel-Hamas war. We all know it isn't up to Biden and that 80% of America supports Israel, but the protesters are vocal, and their presence can't be ignored.
They have always been in the background, though support for terrorism is recent. Previously, those Muslim-Americans were placated by donations to UNRWA and others claiming to help the plight of refugees. Israel complained for years that Hamas heavily infiltrated this group, but the complaint was ignored because if it weren't, there would be complaints for that, too. Well, now the world knows.
After most wars or even rebellions, there is usually a mass movement of people. We can call them refugees until they are resettled, and then they blend into the fabric of wherever they have landed. Except for Palestinians, whose numbers inside Israel have quadrupled since the founding of Israel. and are still considered "refugees." If you are a third-generation refugee, you aren't a refugee. It is time to stop asking for handouts and earn your keep.
Israel offers first-class citizenship to everyone who lives there, but there is a caveat. You would be expected to live in peace and obey the same laws as everyone else. There are plenty of Christians who live in Israel, as well as Druze and Bedouin Muslims who don't have a problem calling Israel "home." They have accepted the reality that their life is better there than it would be anywhere else. They have job and education opportunities. The funds the US has been sending to UNRWA would be better spent by funding rehabilitation for Hamas.
As long as you offer to give money, people will take it. That has always been true and always will be. But everyone wants something back when they give, even if it is only an acknowledgment. Usually, Americans just want to know their money is going to help somebody for the better. Now we know the money was misspent, and actually funded war. That can't be okay.
Look what a generation (or three) of teaching anti-Western toxic propaganda to young people can accomplish! - now I see where the problem in America has come from, with a majority of young people supporting Gaza in this conflict.
Classic criminal mentality that Hamas and its supporters would actually be "outraged" that their funding is disappearing as a result of their actions being exposed (mostly by themselves, the idiots). I am thankful for your organization for exposing this absolute rot and that you will be hopefully giving Congress the deserved earful when you are with them.
It is clear that UNRWA is one of the chief reasons that the Palestinian conflict has been unresolvable. The UNHCR is responsible for every refugee population since the end of WWII, and has successfully resettled them. UNRWA only has Palestinians to work with, and their bureaucratic imperative has been to grow and sustain the Palestinian refugee crisis so as to sustain the UNRWA organization.
That is why (unlike every other refugee in the world) the descendants of refugees from 1948 are still considered by UNRWA to be refugees today - even if they are citizens of another country.
The comment above regarding Trump pulling support from the UNRWA is accurate. I am very much not a Trump fan, and though I don't remember being all that upset about his reduced support of the UN, I think it's important to lean in to instances where you're wrong or where a politician you don't like does something that turns out to be good.
The Brookings institute has a rather breathless condemnation of his actions. In retrospect, the way they put the article together makes this revelation even more damning for them.
Anyway, this is going to be a significant blow to the idea of achieving any kind of peace. It's also going to be a significant blow to the welfare of the Palestinians. Nothing good will come of all this.
How stupid are these countries who take money from their “working citizens “ and GIVE it to a hateful, group like this. The so-called civilized countries are destroying themselves !
A new Israeli occupation of Gaza seems inevitable. No aid organization should be operating in Gaza that aids and abets the terrorists. The US and other countries who have suspended funding for UNRWA should establish a new organization, under the direct control of the US and Israel. The funds which formerly supported UNRWA could then, with proper controls and oversight, bring relief to civilians in Gaza without supporting Hamas.
UN, WHO, World Bank, etc. all have published goals and objectives (Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, WHO pandemic treaty) obscured by funny language that sounds awesome. Look what they do, not what they say. Here's a great example: UN debit cards and instruction kits and free transport for illegal immigrants at the southern border. https://x.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1749636738794815691?s=20
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, universally known as UNRWA, supposedly provides humanitarian assistance for so-called Palestinian “refugees.” In practice, it has been allowed for decades to provide material support to Gaza’s Hamas terrorists.
Now, there’s sufficiently compelling evidence of twelve UNRWA employees participating directly in Hamas’ genocidal October 7th invasion of Israel that seventeen nations have suspended funding pending the completion of a likely UN investigatory whitewash.
An indispensable group, UN Watch, will demonstrate in congressional testimony today, these are not – as the United Nations and its apologists insist – “a few bad apples.” Rather, the entire operation is rotten to the core and should be defunded permanently.
Should have included Maher Bitar. Among the worst
And it is high time that a former UNRWA employee named Maher Bitar who is, incredibly, the Senior Director for Intelligence at the Biden National Security Council, be sent packing, as well.
Agree completely. One thing that should be reemphasized and elaborated - with details- on is how UNRWA funds and funds and participates in teaching Palestinians to hate Israel and Jews generally. They actively poison the minds of Palestinians which not only helps create the barbaric terrorists that we saw on October 7th, but contributes to Palestinian support of such actions. I know that is well documented by you and others elsewhere and I urge people to look at it because it makes it clear that in the short and long term UNRWA is one of the main obstacles to any hope of peace in the region. I wish I could say otherwise but the documentation of their multifaceted involvement makes it clear that the rot is at its core making "reform" impossible.
UNRWA has been a haven for terrorists for years. There were stories about its activities in the 80's. It should be disbanded and all funding recovered. All of its employees around the world should be fired.
The ugly truth is that the UN has failed its mission in every way. It was founded on the naive supposition that the entire world shares Judeo-Christian values. When the Muslim world adopted a separate declaration of “Human Rights” (the Cairo Declaration) in 1990, recognizing only those rights which are in accordance with Sharia law (aka not equal rights for all), the writing should have been on the wall. It should be clear now to anyone with eyes to see that the value of human life and dignity that we take for granted is not shared the world over: not by the Chinese Communists, not by Islam, not by dictators like Putin, and not by the organizations which our leaders’ arrogant and blind childishness have allowed to rot from the inside. They allowed the adherents of the aforementioned ideologies to take over the UN, et al, by taking at face value the lies about a common mission of peace when on the ground Muslim and Communist leaders and staff actually work for corruption, death, and destruction. At this late date, our so-called leaders are still more afraid of bogus claims of “racism” (neither Islam nor communism is a race) than they are of handing the world and their own children over to hostile and murderous ideologies. You cannot make common cause with Muslims or with Communists. To do so is not to “turn the other cheek” or to be merciful. To do so is sheer stupidity and condemns your children to perpetual war and terror. Call your congress people and tell them to defund the UN. Then vote accordingly.
I'm shocked, shocked there's gambling in Casablanca....
UN is not fit for purpose. It should be shut down; the buildings can be used as DeTransification & DeMarxification centers. I'm a fan of editorial cartoons, which are greatly missed from media (killed by NYT); I came across a good one about UNRWA and posted it on X w/link to this article. I noticed to my surprise that @freepress doesn't have a ✔️! And here I just bought a subscription to FP – figured I'd have to put my $ where my mouth is…
Muslim Arab Americans are threatening not to vote for Biden if he does not stop the Israel-Hamas war. We all know it isn't up to Biden and that 80% of America supports Israel, but the protesters are vocal, and their presence can't be ignored.
They have always been in the background, though support for terrorism is recent. Previously, those Muslim-Americans were placated by donations to UNRWA and others claiming to help the plight of refugees. Israel complained for years that Hamas heavily infiltrated this group, but the complaint was ignored because if it weren't, there would be complaints for that, too. Well, now the world knows.
After most wars or even rebellions, there is usually a mass movement of people. We can call them refugees until they are resettled, and then they blend into the fabric of wherever they have landed. Except for Palestinians, whose numbers inside Israel have quadrupled since the founding of Israel. and are still considered "refugees." If you are a third-generation refugee, you aren't a refugee. It is time to stop asking for handouts and earn your keep.
Israel offers first-class citizenship to everyone who lives there, but there is a caveat. You would be expected to live in peace and obey the same laws as everyone else. There are plenty of Christians who live in Israel, as well as Druze and Bedouin Muslims who don't have a problem calling Israel "home." They have accepted the reality that their life is better there than it would be anywhere else. They have job and education opportunities. The funds the US has been sending to UNRWA would be better spent by funding rehabilitation for Hamas.
As long as you offer to give money, people will take it. That has always been true and always will be. But everyone wants something back when they give, even if it is only an acknowledgment. Usually, Americans just want to know their money is going to help somebody for the better. Now we know the money was misspent, and actually funded war. That can't be okay.
Look what a generation (or three) of teaching anti-Western toxic propaganda to young people can accomplish! - now I see where the problem in America has come from, with a majority of young people supporting Gaza in this conflict.
Classic criminal mentality that Hamas and its supporters would actually be "outraged" that their funding is disappearing as a result of their actions being exposed (mostly by themselves, the idiots). I am thankful for your organization for exposing this absolute rot and that you will be hopefully giving Congress the deserved earful when you are with them.
It is clear that UNRWA is one of the chief reasons that the Palestinian conflict has been unresolvable. The UNHCR is responsible for every refugee population since the end of WWII, and has successfully resettled them. UNRWA only has Palestinians to work with, and their bureaucratic imperative has been to grow and sustain the Palestinian refugee crisis so as to sustain the UNRWA organization.
That is why (unlike every other refugee in the world) the descendants of refugees from 1948 are still considered by UNRWA to be refugees today - even if they are citizens of another country.
The UN was created to end conflicts, promote peace, and avoid world wars.
Based on its performance it’s long past time to shut it down. Minimally, kick it out of the US, free up office/housing space.
Let some other national enjoy the perks of hosting this peace organization.
The comment above regarding Trump pulling support from the UNRWA is accurate. I am very much not a Trump fan, and though I don't remember being all that upset about his reduced support of the UN, I think it's important to lean in to instances where you're wrong or where a politician you don't like does something that turns out to be good.
The Brookings institute has a rather breathless condemnation of his actions. In retrospect, the way they put the article together makes this revelation even more damning for them.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/in-one-move-trump-eliminated-us-funding-for-unrwa-and-the-us-role-as-mideast-peacemaker/
Anyway, this is going to be a significant blow to the idea of achieving any kind of peace. It's also going to be a significant blow to the welfare of the Palestinians. Nothing good will come of all this.
I suspect UNWRA is more tightly linked to Hamas, but honestly 25 people out of maybe 13,000 UNWRA workers is not a huge finding.
More analysis and information is needed to quantify what percentage of UNWRA is strongly aligned to Hamas, and what percentage is at least aligned.
How stupid are these countries who take money from their “working citizens “ and GIVE it to a hateful, group like this. The so-called civilized countries are destroying themselves !
Unbelievable!!!!!
A new Israeli occupation of Gaza seems inevitable. No aid organization should be operating in Gaza that aids and abets the terrorists. The US and other countries who have suspended funding for UNRWA should establish a new organization, under the direct control of the US and Israel. The funds which formerly supported UNRWA could then, with proper controls and oversight, bring relief to civilians in Gaza without supporting Hamas.
UN, WHO, World Bank, etc. all have published goals and objectives (Agenda 21, Agenda 2030, WHO pandemic treaty) obscured by funny language that sounds awesome. Look what they do, not what they say. Here's a great example: UN debit cards and instruction kits and free transport for illegal immigrants at the southern border. https://x.com/MarkSKrikorian/status/1749636738794815691?s=20
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency, universally known as UNRWA, supposedly provides humanitarian assistance for so-called Palestinian “refugees.” In practice, it has been allowed for decades to provide material support to Gaza’s Hamas terrorists.
Now, there’s sufficiently compelling evidence of twelve UNRWA employees participating directly in Hamas’ genocidal October 7th invasion of Israel that seventeen nations have suspended funding pending the completion of a likely UN investigatory whitewash.
An indispensable group, UN Watch, will demonstrate in congressional testimony today, these are not – as the United Nations and its apologists insist – “a few bad apples.” Rather, the entire operation is rotten to the core and should be defunded permanently.
Should have included Maher Bitar. Among the worst
And it is high time that a former UNRWA employee named Maher Bitar who is, incredibly, the Senior Director for Intelligence at the Biden National Security Council, be sent packing, as well.
Agree completely. One thing that should be reemphasized and elaborated - with details- on is how UNRWA funds and funds and participates in teaching Palestinians to hate Israel and Jews generally. They actively poison the minds of Palestinians which not only helps create the barbaric terrorists that we saw on October 7th, but contributes to Palestinian support of such actions. I know that is well documented by you and others elsewhere and I urge people to look at it because it makes it clear that in the short and long term UNRWA is one of the main obstacles to any hope of peace in the region. I wish I could say otherwise but the documentation of their multifaceted involvement makes it clear that the rot is at its core making "reform" impossible.
UNRWA has been a haven for terrorists for years. There were stories about its activities in the 80's. It should be disbanded and all funding recovered. All of its employees around the world should be fired.