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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Proud-Palestinians-must-lead-the-fight-to-reform-UNRWA-383366
Palestinians Must Lead the Fight to Reform UNRWA
(Jerusalem Post) Bassem Eid - The UNRWA refugee camps were created 65 years ago for the sole purpose of keeping Palestinian Arabs in "temporary" conditions under the false pretense and specious promise of the "right of return" to pre-1948 villages that do not exist. The UN rakes in more than $1.2 billion a year as an "incentive" to continue the Palestinians' status as refugees. The reform of UNRWA should include the introduction of UN High Commissioner for Refugees standards to encourage permanent refugee settlement. UNRWA schools must cancel their war curriculum, which is based on the principles of jihad, martyrdom and right of return by force of arms. UNRWA employees affiliated with Hamas, defined by the donor nations to UNRWA as a terrorist entity, should be dismissed. It is the responsibility of the Palestinian people to rebel against the arbitrary administration of UNRWA, which seeks to perpetuate Palestinian refugee status instead of helping our people to strive for a better future. The writer is the founder and director of the Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.