To Facilitate Peace, President Trump Should Shut Down UNRWA
Palestinian refugees should be resettled, not kept in poverty and nurtured on a diet of hate.
January 12, 2017
To Facilitate Peace, President Trump Should Shut Down UNRWA
Palestinian refugees should be resettled, not kept in poverty and nurtured on a diet of hate.
Founded in 1949, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) was tasked with the admirable mission of providing humanitarian assistance for some 700,000 Palestinians displaced by Israel’s War of Independence. The organization now serves the millions of descendants of these refugees, prevents their successful integration into the lands in which they now live, and educates their children to hate Israel and yearn for return to “Palestine.” Noting that the question of these refugees and their “right of return” is now regarded as the biggest impediment to a two-state solution, Sol Stern calls on Donald Trump to defund UNRWA:
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