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UNRWA is the United Nations refugee agency designed EXCLUSIVELY to deal with Palestinians, while UNHCR deals with all other world refugees.
UNRWA has been characterized as bloated, corrupt, and locally staffed by members of Hamas, a terror Islamic group. During the war with Israel UNRWA facilities, such as schools, were used to store weapons and as launching pads for rockets aimed at civilians in Israel.
The obvious solution to the UNRWA problem is to dismantle it and to transfer all aid funds for Palestinians to the more effective UNHCR, which is tasked with caring for, and relocating world refugees.
While refugees from other parts of the world are eventually relocated by UNHCR to start new lives, Palestinians under UNRWA have been kept DELIBERATELY in refugee camps for several generations already, while being indoctrinated in hate for Israel and the Jews.
Further on read article by a Palestinian human rights activist denouncing UNRWA.
Donations by the most generous nations - the United States and Europe - are still disproportionally allotted to the Palestinians, while neglecting truly needy populations in Africa and other parts of the world.
The reason is simple: The Palestinians are the world's tool to destabilize, terrorize, and eventually destroy the state of Israel.
That's the US and EU governments' ultimate agenda.
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WHAT YOU PROBABLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT UNRWA WILL SURPRISE YOU:
UNRWA is not subject to any external audit, a financial phenomenon virtually unknown in the public or corporate sectors in any of the donor nations.
UNRWA employs 30,000 workers, while comparative agencies function with far less sums proportionally.
UNRWA perpetuates the notion that descendants of refugees are themselves refugees, supporting the Palestinian demand of ‘the right of return’, and conflicts with the UN call for a two-state solution with Israel, which rejects the “right of return”.
The UNRWA budget is used to promote methods diametrically opposed by the UN itself, especially in the violent language found in UNRWA school text books that reject the existence of Israel and promote war against the Jewish state..
UNRWA has found itself concentrating primarily on Gaza and the West Bank, helpless to respond to the Syrian cruelty to Palestinians who have lived in UNRWA facilities in Syria since 1950.
UNRWA has become a self-perpetuating mechanism, whose focus has become political and diplomatic, rather than on the humanitarian concerns of Palestinians, wherever they may live. Western taxpayers are therefore not receiving value for their allocation of resources to UNRWA. At a time when the world emerges from a global economic crisis, there are more urgent cases in need of greater resources.
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UN runs out of money to feed Syrian refugees
while UNRWA keeps raising cash
By EOZ
The United Nations' food agency has announced that it is suspending its food programme serving more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees because it has run out of money.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that it "immediately needs" at least $64m in December alone to support the displaced Syrians now living in neighbouring countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq and Turkey.
"A suspension of WFP food assistance will endanger the health and safety of these refugees and will potentially cause further tensions, instability and insecurity in the neighbouring host countries," said WFP Executive Director Ertharin Cousin, in an appeal to donors.
"The suspension of WFP food assistance will be disastrous for many already suffering families."
Since the war in Syria began in 2011, over three million people have fled to neighbouring countries. Under the UN programme, the refugees use vouchers to buy food in local shops. The UN provides basics like flour, cooking oil and sugar. But it also gives vital food vouchers to pregnant and nursing mothers.
"Without WFP vouchers, many families will go hungry. For refugees already struggling to survive the harsh winter, the consequences of halting this assistance will be devastating," the UN said.
Every month, the UN feeds over four million people inside Syria, and over a million more now temporarily sheltered in other countries. Muhannad Hadi, the UN coordinator of the food programme, told Al Jazeera the refugees would face a harsh winter without support from the world body.
"It's definitely a catastrophe," he said, speaking from the Jordanian capital Amman. "If we cannot deliver the food voucher, they simply would not be able to eat." "We are asking the world [to help]. This is an international crisis."
There is only so much international aid to go around, and one reason why the World Food Program is running out of money is because the bloated, superfluous UNRWA keeps on manufacturing its own "crises" every couple of months to keep its own cash flow coming.
Last week,
UNRWA declared an "emergency" because of flooding in Gaza that did not kill or injure a single person.
While the WFP needs some $64 million a month to stop people from starving, UNRWA is demanding $1.6 billion from the international community on top of $300 million it demanded earlier this year.
While Syrian refugees cannot eat, UNRWA goes fundraising in Japan and
Azerbaijan.
Even crazier is that UNRWA also solicits money for the relatively small percentage of Syrian refugees who fall under its mandate.
Rather than a single UN fundraising effort for all Syrian refugees to ensure fair distribution, UNRWA has a separate program because the UN makes a distinction between refugees who happen to have some ancestors who lived in British Mandate Palestine in 1947 and all others.
The UNHRC and WFP are struggling to give Syrian refugees the basics of food and medical care while the Palestinians who fall under UNRWA's mandate receive much higher levels of aid per capita, including schooling and medicine.
"Palestinian" refugees from Syria go o different camps in Jordan than the rest of the refugees because of Arab bigotry against Palestinians that gets swept under the rug.
The inefficiencies from having UNRWA doing the same work as other UN agencies, and the Arab nations insisting on discrimination against Palestinians, is wasting huge amounts of money.
Source
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2014/12/un-runs-out-of-money-to-feed-syrian.html#.VH3VL8otCM8
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Palestinian human rights icon blasts UNRWA
by EOZ
From Bassam Eid in the Jerusalem Post:
We Palestinians can no longer deny our responsibility for the destiny of our people. For 26 years I have been devoting my life to the mission of defending human rights. I have seen wars and terror.
I live in Jerusalem and was brought up in an United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp in Shuafat, a refugee camp like 58 other UNRWA refugee camps created for the sole purpose of keep Palestinian Arab people in “temporary” conditions, for 65 years, under the false pretense and specious promise of the “right of return” to pre-1948 villages that do not exist.
As a proud Palestinian, I must take responsibility for what will happen to our people.
We can no longer deny our responsibility for the future of our people.
UNRWA, to continue its operation, depends on death and the visual suffering of five million Palestinians who continue to wallow in and around UNRWA facilities.
The more Palestinians suffer, the more power goes to UNRWA, which allows it to raise unchecked humanitarian funds and purchase munitions.
People ask: Why not abolish UNRWA? Well, this cannot be done. The only agency that can abolish UNRWA is the UN General Assembly, which has never had the interests of the Palestinian people at heart.
After all, the UN rakes in more than $1.2 billion a year as an “incentive” to continue our status as refugees.
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