(Jewish Chronicle-UK) Nicole Lampert - The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) is the only UN group dedicated to one conflict. Never mind the millions of Syrian refugees, or the hundreds of thousands who fled Afghanistan or Ukraine, only Palestinian refugees are seen as deserving of special attention. Someone whose great-grandfather fled the area and ended up in the UK, where their grandparents and parents laid down roots, is still counted as a Palestinian "refugee." In Gaza and the West Bank, high-rise apartment blocks are called "refugee camps," though their residents are living in a Palestinian-ruled area. The very fact that they are called refugees maintains the idea that they have somewhere to go "back" to. This obsession with "return" fed by UNWRA is partly what destroyed the Oslo Peace Process and has scuppered every other attempt at a peace deal. In UNRWA schools, UN watchdogs report that children are taught math by looking at the angles of rockets and adding up numbers of "martyrs" killed, while reading exercises celebrate firebomb attacks on Jews. They are taught that Jerusalem is "theirs" and that Jews stole the land and need to die. The 3,000 teachers on a Gazan UNRWA Telegram group celebrated the Hamas atrocities of Oct. 7. Half the schools in Gaza are run by UNRWA. IDF Col. Elad Shushan said, "There is not an UNRWA site, school, mosque, or kindergarten in which we didn't find weapons. None. 100%."
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