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Scandal: the welfare state of "Palestine"
The American Thinker ^ | April 08, 2007 | Moshe Dann

Posted on 04/09/2007 11:54:41 PM PDT by Northern Alliance

According to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) tens of billions of dollars (one-third from US taxpayers, the rest mostly from Canada and European countries) have been spent over the last 50 years providing "Palestinian refugees" and their descendants. An estimated half million people 60 years ago, that number is now over four million and increasing daily.

UNRWA's purpose: to insure the "Palestinian Right of Return" - the destruction of Israel.

No Arab country except Jordan -- where they constitute more than two-thirds of the population - accepts them as citizens. Saudi Arabia, for example, recently passed a law allowing all foreigner workers in the country to apply for Saudi citizenship next year - except Palestinians.

More than 400,000 "Palestinian refugees" living in UNWRA-supported "camps" in Lebanon cannot work or even go to school outside their designated areas. Ditto for Syria.

Most "Palestinian refugees" listed by UNRWA (which includes Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, West Bank and Gaza) in 2002, don't even live in the camps, but in nearby villages and towns. All receive free assistance and services for the rest of their life, including their children, their grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, ad infinitum.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: palestine; un

1 posted on 04/09/2007 11:54:42 PM PDT by Northern Alliance
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To: Northern Alliance
Thev only "refugees" in history to sponge off the world's charity - for which they show no gratitude.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

2 posted on 04/10/2007 12:03:31 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Northern Alliance
Saudi Arabia, for example, recently passed a law allowing all foreigner workers in the country to apply for Saudi citizenship next year - except Palestinians.

The Saudis aren't stupid enough to let the monster they helped create run loose in their country.

3 posted on 04/10/2007 12:11:51 AM PDT by Quick or Dead (Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms - Aristotle)
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To: Northern Alliance

Maybe the best thing that could happen to “Palestinians” would be if UN stopped its occupation of “Palestine”?


4 posted on 04/10/2007 12:24:35 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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To: CutePuppy

The pallies could be sent back home to Jordan. After all Jordan is the country that kicked the pallies out.


5 posted on 04/10/2007 4:12:34 AM PDT by From One - Many (Trust the Old Media At Your Own Risk)
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Jordan does not want them or need them, they still remember “Black September”. Now “Palestinians” are somebody else’s problem - Israel’s, US, EU, UN... and [can be] are used for propaganda, sympathy and as cheap “outsourced suicide labor”.


6 posted on 04/10/2007 9:42:17 AM PDT by CutePuppy (If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers)
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