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January 19, 2021

Mike Pompeo Rejects One of the Myths of the Palestinian Refugees

According to a classified Obama-era report, there are less than 200,000.

Since the beginning of the year, the outgoing secretary of state has been using his Twitter account to tout his department’s various accomplishments during his tenure. Among these, notes Jimmy Quinn, lay an important statement explaining the 2018 decision to cease funding the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA): “it’s estimated [that less than] 200,000 Arabs displaced in 1948 are still alive and most others are not refugees.” Quinn explains:

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January 19, 2021

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    According to a classified Obama-era report, there are less than 200,000.

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