RIDDLE: You’re an American citizen, born and raised in the U.S., who has never set foot outside your country. You are also a refugee from a faraway land. What is the explanation?
HINT: Your parents and grandparents are also Americans, and they are also refugees.
ANOTHER HINT: Your children, born to you and your American spouse, are also refugees, and when they are old enough to have children of their own, their children will also be refugees.
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This bizarro alternate world is the creation of the United Nations, which established the United Nations Relief and Aid Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, or UNRWA for short. UNRWA should not be confused with the UN agency for real refugees, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, which deals with wrenching horrors such as those facing the desperate Christians, Yazidis and other minorities fleeing ISIS.
Unlike the UN’s real refugee agency, which defines a refugee as someone fleeing "owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion,” UNRWA’s definition inflates the numbers by also including economic refugees — people who left either Israel or the Palestinian territories for economic reasons after war broke out between Israel and Arab states in 1948. Anyone who had lived in Israel or the Palestinian territories from 1946 to 1948 could qualify as a refugee.
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It is, in effect, not an independent UN agency but an organ of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and of Hamas in Gaza. Not surprisingly, UNRWA facilities long ago became terrorist bases, according to the Beirut-based Journal of Palestine Studies. This view is supported by James Lindsay, a former legal advisor and general counsel to UNRWA, and former UNRWA Commissioner Peter Hansen, who told CBC “I am sure that there are Hamas members on the UNRWA payroll ” and “I don’t see that as a crime.”
Such candid comments about Hamas’s role in Gaza’s UNRWA facilities explain why UNWRA schools become warehouses for rockets, why UNRWA science teachers moonlight making rockets, why UNRWA hospitals double as command centres for terrorist attacks, and why UNRWA houses refugees in dense areas, as cannon fodder: Rather than moving refugees out of harm’s way, as the UN’s real refugee agency does, UNRWA specializes in moving them into harm’s way.
USA supporting UNRWA financially ends up supporting Hamas.