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Rhiannon12866

(220,737 posts)
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 01:12 AM Aug 2018

Kushner advocated elimination of UN Palestinian refugee agency

Jared Kushner and others in the Trump administration have sought to eliminate the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which has provided relief to millions of Palestinian refugees displaced by the establishment of Israel in 1949, reports Foreign Policy.

The big picture: The U.S. has provided funding for UNRWA for nearly 70 years, but many in the pro-Israel camp believe its existence perpetuates the notion that Palestinian refugees will one day return. Eliminating the agency would strip millions of Palestinians of refugee status.

The details: The Trump administration cut its funding for UNRWA in half in January, citing the need for a "fundamental reexamination" of the agency's operations and the way it's funded. Emails obtained by Foreign Policy show a continued push on the part of Kushner to completely defund the agency and direct the money to Jordan and other states that host Palestinian refugees, an idea also raised by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his meeting with the UN in March.

"It is important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA...This [agency] perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn’t help peace."
— Jared Kushner in an email dated Jan. 11


Short article, no more at link: https://www.axios.com/jared-kushner-seeks-to-eliminate-un-palestinian-refugee-agency-ceb58bcd-1805-4815-940b-4554d43e3c39.html

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Kushner advocated elimination of UN Palestinian refugee agency (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 OP
kushner is evil as hell. democratisphere Aug 2018 #1
We've had two brilliant presidents address this critical world issue Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #2
Can't wait for the dismantling of the drumpf family business in the oval office. democratisphere Aug 2018 #3
We definitely need to get rid of them ASAP, before they let anymore Russians in! Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #4
. democratisphere Aug 2018 #5
... Rhiannon12866 Aug 2018 #6
+1000 sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #7
a lot of people are saying that unwra needs to be phased out Mosby Aug 2018 #8

Rhiannon12866

(220,737 posts)
2. We've had two brilliant presidents address this critical world issue
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 01:23 AM
Aug 2018

So now we've turned it over to a 30-something "real estate developer??"

democratisphere

(17,235 posts)
3. Can't wait for the dismantling of the drumpf family business in the oval office.
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 01:27 AM
Aug 2018

We need to get ourselves and the rest of the world back on the rails and running smoothly!

Rhiannon12866

(220,737 posts)
4. We definitely need to get rid of them ASAP, before they let anymore Russians in!
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 01:37 AM
Aug 2018

That's why the midterms are so important - as we're hearing from everyone on a daily basis. We keep hearing this crisis compared to Watergate, but that never involved a foreign power and it took the Republicans to bring down Nixon - but this current Republican-controlled Congress has only enabled Trump and his treasonous efforts. We need to clean House - and the Senate - not to mention eliminate anyone related to Trump!

Mosby

(17,287 posts)
8. a lot of people are saying that unwra needs to be phased out
Sat Aug 4, 2018, 12:58 PM
Aug 2018

Palestinians are the only refugees in the world who are not resettled in other areas, and were given inheritable refugee status. There are even refugee camp IN Palestine itself. What started out as 650K refugees or so in 1947 (which was an inflated number) has now ballooned to 5.5 million. It's an exponential function, when a Palestinian living in Paris for example marries a Moroccan and has 5 kids, that's 5 more Palestinian "refugees".

According to the UN, there now are 12+ million Palestinians, by comparison there are only 8.5 million citizens of Israel, of which 6 million are Jewish.

This organization is 10 times the size of the UN refugee group (UNHCR) which serves the entire rest of the world. They employ 30,000 Palestinians, and run the school system where they indoctrinate the kids for the cause.

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