Posted on 06/09/2015 10:37:06 PM PDT by Eleutheria5
Israel has often complained that UNRWA, the UN body dealing with "Palestinian refugees," merely exists to continue the conflict without resettling the people it treats as the UN does with all other refugees, but apparently the Palestinian Arabs are unhappy with the organization too - for not giving them enough, and for giving too much to their brethern in Syria's Yarmouk neighborhood.
Residents of Gaza defined as "refugees," namely the descendants of Arab residents who left Israel in the 1948 War of Independence, are protesting against UNRWA after the latter transferred resources to displaced Palestinian Arab residents of the Yarmouk "refugee camp," a neighborhood in southern Damascus that has been under Islamic State (ISIS) attack.
The popular committee of refugees held a demonstration on Monday in front of UNRWA's aid distribution center in the western Al-Muaskar camp, demanding that UNRWA cease the budget cuts planned for them, and calling on donating nations to prop up the UN body.
Palestine, the Hamas-affiliated paper, reports that the protesters bore signs reading "UNRWA cuts - why now?," "where is the international community?," "save Gaza from a slow death," "UNRWA has the supreme legal authority on the camps and the refugees," "we demand the donating nations take responsibility for covering the financial loss of UNRWA," and "I'm a Palestinian refugee, is it not my right to live freely?"
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You are not refugees. Some of your grandparents and great grandparents were, but you are not. Refugee status is not like an inverted coat of arms, entitling you to ration cards so long as you do nothing to better your lot. Not one of you are really refugees. For once, UNRWA is fulfilling its stated mission, and helping real refugees--not from Israel, but from Syria--and that has nothing to do with you. Move out of your "camp," leave Ghaza altogether, and go get a life. You'll find it's more fun than sitting around hating Israelis while waiting in line for your rations.
Couldn’t have said it better, Thanks.
How about UNRWA just say well okay then, you get nothing. Burn it all and leave forever.
Pali grand children will thank them for doing it. Palis today will riot for depriving them of their jiziya, but what else is new.
If islam conquers the world, who will they leech from.
Talk about biting the hand that feeds. Sheeeeeesh.
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Hamas can't divert UNWRA funds going to Syria.
UNRWA is for palis, only, afaik the only group that has ever hadtheir own welfare agency.
Didn’t realize that there were palis in any meaningful number in Syria, tho.
Throughout the Arab world, with the exception of Jordan, Palis are kept in refugee camps from generation to generation, and UNRWA is there to see to it that the situation continues indefinitely.
“How about UNRWA just say well okay then, you get nothing. Burn it all and leave forever.”
“There is a class of [UN employee] who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the [palis] before the public. Some of these people do not want the [pali] to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. “ - Booker T. Washington Abdul Jabbar
The palis have out-negroed the negro.
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