In his fascinating autobiography, published in 1978, Abba Ibn even managed to include the assertion that the UN refugee agency, UNRA, uses textbooks from Arab countries in its network of schools, and these are full of incitement and hatred towards the State of Israel and the Jews.
But according to those who have been researching the issue for decades, like David Bedin, there is almost no way to dismantle this refugee agency.
It is easier to dismantle Israel.
The agency's funding comes directly from 67 countries in the world.
It does not go through the UN but goes directly to UNRWA.
The measures taken this week are not exactly the cancellation of funding but a temporary suspension.
At the time, Trump drastically cut the budget that the US gives to the agency. According to David Bedin, there is now an agreement between the US and UNRA according to which even in the last two years the money is transferred to a trust. UNRA's annual budget is 1.6 billion dollars, of which 350 million are American.
58% of the money is directed to education - so a revolution in education can be a starting point for treating the organization.
Weapons in UNRA agency bags
UNRA symbolizes the eternity of the Palestinian refugee. Babies are born at Shifa Hospital generation after generation and are registered as refugees. This is already the third, fourth, maybe fifth generation. The practical relationship between the Palestinian diplomatic empire and the UN.
Anyone who deals with the issue knows that the uniqueness of the Palestinian refugee status is its continuity.
World wars come and go.
There are refugees.
They are treated for a certain amount of time, but they do not have eternal status.
The legendary journalist Martha Gellhorn, who was also temporarily Ernest Hemingway's wife, conducted a historical tour of all the Palestinian refugee sites in 1961.
13 years after the war of liberation it already seems strange to her that they are considered refugees.
It also atones for the very definition of those displaced Palestinians as refugees.
These were not the refugees she remembered from the Spanish War, World War II, or the Korean War.
A refugee in the wars of the 20th century wandered over hundreds and thousands of kilometers from his original home.
The Palestinian refugees migrated a few tens of kilometers, and many of them did not even leave the borders of the Land of Israel, but only huddled near established Arab settlements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip of course.
A trapped floor above a UNRA kindergarten in the Nur al-Shams refugee camp // IDF Spokesman
Under the mechanisms of UNRA, Palestinian terrorist organizations have grown since the 1950s. The agency has largely raised not only generations of refugees, but also generations of terrorists who aspire to be "martyrs", imbued with feelings of revenge, jealousy and hatred. The way to a radical change of situation, or De-radicalization, as Netanyahu calls it, begins with the complete cancellation of UNRA's curriculum, which is based on jihad, turning the student into a holy victim and cultivating the belief "in the right of return through armed struggle."
Also, the cessation of the use of UNRA's system for stockpiling weapons and training children for combat - while this is committed to peace education; making the option of resettling the 4th and 5th generation of "refugees" in places other than Gaza accessible; and of course before the renewal of funding and the conditions involved in it, Creating a transparency mechanism for the use of the organization's budgets.
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