On this day in 1949, following the conclusion of Israel's War of Independence, the UN General Assembly voted to establish the United Nations Relief and Works Agency โ @UNRWA.
Over time, by refusing to resettle Palestinian refugees, even in the countries they now inhabited such as Lebanon, the world sent them a message: the war is not over, you can still destroy Israel.
Today, 74 years later, Israel has still not been defeated, and Palestinians are paying the price of the lie they were fed.
Palestinians are the only population in the world not eligible for services by UNHCR, the UN refugee agency (@Refugees), which has a mandate to resettle refugees.
Instead, @UNRWA holds generation after generation of patrilineal descendants trapped in permanent "refugee camps," denied integration in the Arab countries they were born in and denied resettlement elsewhere.
Keeping Palestinians in refugee camps does nothing to help them. They are being used as pawns in the unending war to undo Israel's creation.
Shockingly though, UNRWA's budget is not funded by Israel's enemies. It is funded by Western governments.
Here are the largest donors in 2022:
๐บ๐ธ $344M
๐ฉ๐ช $202M
๐ช๐บ $114M
๐ณ๐ด $34M
๐ฏ๐ต $30M
๐ซ๐ท $29M
Let's imagine for a moment that UNRWA teachers weren't teaching students to support terror and hate Jews.
Let's imagine that UNRWA schools weren't being used to store rockets.
Let's imagine that UNRWA teachers weren't holding hostages.
Even in that world, it would be a moral imperative for donor countries to stop funding the system of delusion that UNRWA's founding has created for Palestinians, whereby they live for generations on Israel's doorstep, waiting for its destruction.
Donor countries must find alternative organizations through which to deliver humanitarian aid to Gazans.
They must also create a system that aids voluntary resettlement for those Palestinians who decide to finally accept the truth:
The war has ended, Israel is there to stay.
And it is time for UNRWA to go.
for a long time i said that antisemitism, particularly on the american left, was not as bad as people claimed.
i'd like to just state that i was totally wrong.
i still don't understand it, really. or know what to do about it.
but it is so fucked.
"A Hamas video...terrorists torturing a pregnant woman and removing her fetus. Our forensic scientists have found bodies of women and girls raped with such violence that their pelvic bones were broken." - Michal Herzog, First Lady of the State of Israel
https://t.co/THCCBvEqzI
The data is in front of you.
Comparing the aid Palestine has received [1] to European countries post-WW2 (Marshall Plan [2]), adjusted for inflation (2023), and normalized per citizen.
Palestine leads with over 20x more than every European country post-WW2.
Over 1000x compared to African countries.
Dear @washingtonpost,
Israel is not holding hostages; it is holding prisoners that committed crimes against humanity.
Hamas is holding women, children, and elderly civilians.
This moral comparison is repugnant.
Left: Nazi executing a Jewish woman with her child in Ivanhorod, 1942.
Right: Hamas executing a Jewish woman in Kibbutz Alumim, 2023.
โNever Againโ is now.
75% of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank support Hamas and the October 7 atrocities.
Palestinian civilians overwhelmingly support Hamasโ attacks on Israel that killed over 1,400, including children and babies, and which resulted in 240 hostages taken, including children and babiesโ which then led to Israel entering Gaza.
This poll was conducted by an Arabic company 4 weeks after the attacks.
Due to the Capture of the Al-Shifa Medical Center in Northern Gaza last night by the Israel Defense Force, Medical Supplies and Equipment as well as Doctors have begun to arrive at the Hospital in order to assist with Treating and Sheltering the Thousands of Palestinians who have been Trapped there for several weeks as a result of the War.
75 year-old Palestinian fleeing his home, tells Al Jazeera:
"Arab traitors are conspiring against us. Arabs, and only Arabs are betraying us. The Jews are kind with us."
https://t.co/Sv3ab19KJR