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The UNRWA, the UN Agency for helping Palestinian refugees has been accused of perpetuating their misery - (The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinian

The UNRWA, the UN Agency for helping Palestinian refugees has been accused of perpetuating their misery - (The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians, The Economist https://archive.is/c7Pop https://archive.is/c7Pop).

jfengel 3y ago
Unfortunately that is a deep and complex problem. There are a lot of forces that are using the Palestinians as a stick with which to harass Israel, in part to deflect from their own human rights abuses. The result is a set of permanent mutual grievance. An intractable problem may now be utterly insoluble.
- golemiprague 3y ago
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ImHereToVote 3y ago
Accused by who? The ones that need to legitimize the massacre?
- nindalf 3y ago
  Accused by the Economist in this case. But they quote Palestinians who say the same.
  - enterprise_cog 3y ago
    They quote one Palestinian and his quote can be interpreted as a call for a two or one state solution. It is an empty statement without more context.
cobbzilla 3y ago
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- hef19898 3y ago
  Bold claim, bold claim. Any proof of that? Other than Israel's "Trust me, bro"?
- enterprise_cog 3y ago
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- sorokod 3y ago
  You are probably thinking about UNRWA: UNRWA's budget is set by the UN General Assembly and derives almost entirely from voluntary contributions by UN member states. with US being the biggest contributor.
Georgelemental 3y ago
This phenomenon (institutions helping to preserve their nominal enemy) has been omnipresent on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. For example: > Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. - Benjamin Netanyahu, 2015 > The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto. … I’m not sure at all that given the current situation, given the current fact that the central playing field we’re playing in is international, Abu Mazen (Abbas) is costing us serious [PR or political] casualties and Hamas in such a situation would be an asset. I don’t think we need to be afraid of [Hamas]. - Bezalel Smotrich, 2015 https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-support-for-hamas-backfired-2/ https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-sup...
ksherlock 3y ago
UNRWA was created in 1949 to help displaced Palestinians from the 1948 Palestine war. That was 76 years ago. Today the Palestinian life expectancy is 74. (In 1948, it was under 50.) Almost everyone they're supposed to be helping is dead.
- Georgelemental 3y ago
  Until their descendants are citizens of a state, until they have land they can call fully their home, they remain refugees.

jfengel 3y ago

Unfortunately that is a deep and complex problem. There are a lot of forces that are using the Palestinians as a stick with which to harass Israel, in part to deflect from their own human rights abuses. The result is a set of permanent mutual grievance. An intractable problem may now be utterly insoluble.

golemiprague 3y ago
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ImHereToVote 3y ago

Accused by who? The ones that need to legitimize the massacre?

nindalf 3y ago
Accused by the Economist in this case. But they quote Palestinians who say the same.
- enterprise_cog 3y ago
  They quote one Palestinian and his quote can be interpreted as a call for a two or one state solution. It is an empty statement without more context.

cobbzilla 3y ago

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hef19898 3y ago
Bold claim, bold claim. Any proof of that? Other than Israel's "Trust me, bro"?
enterprise_cog 3y ago
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sorokod 3y ago
You are probably thinking about UNRWA: UNRWA's budget is set by the UN General Assembly and derives almost entirely from voluntary contributions by UN member states. with US being the biggest contributor.

Georgelemental 3y ago

This phenomenon (institutions helping to preserve their nominal enemy) has been omnipresent on both sides of the Israel-Palestine conflict. For example: > Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas. - Benjamin Netanyahu, 2015 > The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto. … I’m not sure at all that given the current situation, given the current fact that the central playing field we’re playing in is international, Abu Mazen (Abbas) is costing us serious [PR or political] casualties and Hamas in such a situation would be an asset. I don’t think we need to be afraid of [Hamas]. - Bezalel Smotrich, 2015 https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-support-for-hamas-backfired-2/ https://original.antiwar.com/scott/2023/10/27/netanyahus-sup...

ksherlock 3y ago

UNRWA was created in 1949 to help displaced Palestinians from the 1948 Palestine war. That was 76 years ago. Today the Palestinian life expectancy is 74. (In 1948, it was under 50.) Almost everyone they're supposed to be helping is dead.

Georgelemental 3y ago
Until their descendants are citizens of a state, until they have land they can call fully their home, they remain refugees.