(Telegraph-UK) Einat Wilf - The UN agency UNRWA maintains the Palestinians as a people in waiting until they finally realize their vision of "return." Palestinians make it clear that they are owed UNRWA's social services such as education and healthcare until their "return" is realized. A sign as you enter an area under Palestinian Authority control near Bethlehem reads: "UNRWA Services are our Right until Return." Since its earliest days, UNRWA has been hijacked to become a purely Palestinian organization devoted to "return," nurturing violent groups determined to erase Israel. Almost all the terrorists who murdered Israeli athletes in the 1972 Munich Olympics were graduates of UNRWA schools. UNRWA provides the ideological infrastructure of the forever war against Israel's existence. UNRWA's connection with violence against Jews is its defining feature. As long as UNRWA fuels the destructive vision of "return," Western taxpayers' funds will be used only to prepare for war. By providing taxpayer cash to fund UNRWA, the UK is telling Palestinians that they need never build a constructive future for themselves. It is a message that puts peace ever further out of reach. The writer, a former IDF intelligence officer and Knesset member, is the co-author of The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace (2020).
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