tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post5334444278917051346..comments2024-01-01T01:47:59.449+02:00Comments on Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations: View from the EastYaacovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12835192312242961481noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-22163482908042238392010-09-21T14:39:02.621+02:002010-09-21T14:39:02.621+02:00UNRWA is a massive fraud perpetrated on the world ...UNRWA is a massive fraud perpetrated on the world that should be shut down. There is nothing like it for any other group of people, and, as you point out, it "supports" groups quite capable of looking after themselves, specially with the billions poured into the coffers of the PA and Hamas.AKUSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-54007259065827702372010-09-21T13:18:06.979+02:002010-09-21T13:18:06.979+02:00"REFUGEES IN ISRAEL
30. In Israel, the Agen..."REFUGEES IN ISRAEL <br /><br />30. In Israel, the Agency has provided relief to two types of refugees, Jews who fled inside the borders of Israel during the fighting, and Arabs in most instances displaced from one area in Palestine to another. Jewish refugees at first numbered 17,000 but, during the current summer, all but 3,000 of these have been absorbed into the economic life of the new State. Arabs on relief were first numbered at 31,000 but many have been placed in circumstances in which they are self-supporting, so that it was possible to reduce the number to 24,000 at the end of August 1950."<br />Ch III, 30<br />http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/EC8DE7912121FCE5052565B1006B5152<br />http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/06/unrwas-fascinating-1950-report.html<br /><br />Sounds like some relief was given, then Israel swiftly kicked them out. No wonder UNWRA's still mad. ;-)<br />T34zakatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-62205611214962892252010-09-21T10:40:02.672+02:002010-09-21T10:40:02.672+02:00as UNRWA has by now a total of 30.000 employees (a...as UNRWA has by now a total of 30.000 employees (as per its own website) any hope that it may be cut down to size, let alone stop altogether is futile unless a genius comes up with a really clever scheme.<br /><br />I don't remember though that anybody has ever managed to get rid of such a huge entity given that it is not gainfully employed i.e. not even the most benign market pressure can be applied and any misery resulting from a cut-down in funds will be clamed on Israel.<br /><br />(I forgot what the figure of 10.000 that I read most often relates to, their website proudly claims 30.000)<br /><br />SilkeAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-68367319536025360582010-09-21T05:24:03.202+02:002010-09-21T05:24:03.202+02:00No, Joe. Elder of Ziyon has a good series detailin...No, Joe. Elder of Ziyon has a good series detailing UNRWA's early history, but in short, UNRWA was founded before the UN High Commission for Refugees, which is why the Palestinian Arabs have their very own agency. UNRWA was supposed to integrate the Palestinian Arabs into their host countries or find third parties willing to take them, but needless to say, it failed miserably.Bryanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09099017972456573744noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-83097131754399753602010-09-21T04:07:31.799+02:002010-09-21T04:07:31.799+02:00Yaakov, was UNWRA (at the time of its founding) ex...Yaakov, was UNWRA (at the time of its founding) expected to help Jewish refugees? Its mandate seems to address all refugees, not just Arab ones.Joe in Australianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-20048846878292264982010-09-20T20:24:41.801+02:002010-09-20T20:24:41.801+02:00Do you have the name of the school?
There was a s...Do you have the name of the school?<br /><br />There was a speech by the current head that could have come out of the mouth of Sir Humphrey Appleby. I'd love to see a study of UNWRA as the epitome of a bureaucrat's dream.<br /><br />T34zakatAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-32492230053168187562010-09-20T18:53:02.183+02:002010-09-20T18:53:02.183+02:00True, is also Jewish. My sephardic aunt (which was...True, is also Jewish. My sephardic aunt (which was born in Palestine but emigrated to Argentina) once reprimended me when I was little for kicking a piece of bread that was lying on the sidewalk. She kissed it and laid it next to the root of a tree.Fabiánhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04721182705553985260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4008006782907969381.post-4233644028636904372010-09-20T17:21:49.664+02:002010-09-20T17:21:49.664+02:00Polish, and we were told you can't throw out b...Polish, and we were told you can't throw out bread either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com