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Source: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/UNRWA-Who-asked-you-459797
The UN Has Been Taken Hostage
(Jerusalem Post) Yair Lapid - UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness harshly criticized Israel's decision to demolish the homes of two terrorists who last December stabbed two Israelis to death in Jerusalem. UNRWA is the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. It is supposed to help Palestinians find work and assist them with food and medication. That's it. It doesn't have another role. There is nothing in UNRWA's mandate which justifies intervention in Israel's security matters. Why doesn't the State of Israel appear on maps in UNRWA schools? Why can someone be born in Qatar, live in a villa in Paris, hold a Spanish passport and still be considered a Palestinian refugee? In fact, why is it that only the Palestinians have a refugee agency of their own? What do they deserve that the 21.5 million refugees from Tibet, Darfur, Syria, Iraq and elsewhere don't? Six countries - the U.S., Japan, France, UK, Italy and Germany - fund 65% of the UN budget. All that is required of those countries is to raise their voices and say they refuse to allow the wild and distorted UN attacks against Israel to continue, and then they would end. The writer, chairman of the opposition Yesh Atid party, is a former Israeli finance minister.