The U.S. Must Maintain the Kurdish Enclave in Eastern Syria
It’s in Washington’s interest as well as Jerusalem’s.
August 16, 2018
A Plan for Shutting Down the UN’s Counterproductive Agency for Palestinian Refugees
Jared Kushner is right.
Recently, the presidential adviser Jared Kushner has been working to reform, cut funding for, and possibly dismantle the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). This agency, founded in 1950, works independently of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and, unlike that organization, sees its goal as keeping its wardens in a state of permanent refugeehood, rather than arranging for them to find citizenship and employment where they reside. Thus, of the five million people who receive its support, only some 30,000 are refugees by the standard definition; the rest are descendants of refugees. UNRWA also engages in Islamist indoctrination in many of its schools and has collaborated with Hamas in Gaza. Dave Harden writes:
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Few Israelis Like Benjamin Netanyahu. But Many Know He’ll Keep Them Safe
Unpopular and unbeatable.
A Plan for Shutting Down the UN’s Counterproductive Agency for Palestinian Refugees
Jared Kushner is right.
The Book of Job’s Philosophical Poetry
And what it’s like to translate it into English.
A Hero’s Recollection of the Bialystok Ghetto Uprising
The plan was to surprise the Germans. But they were prepared.