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Watch this admirably short and factual film about the origins of refugees in the Middle East and the cynicism that has perpetuated a human tragedy for 63 long years.
Danny Ayalon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel, explains why there still are Arab refugees from the 1948 pan-Arab onslaught against the Jewish state.
He explains why there are no Jewish refugees from that same conflict although far greater numbers Jews were expelled from their homes in the Arab world in the Islamic wave of ethnic cleansing.
Danny Ayalon explains also how it is that there are 1 million Arabs living in the Jewish state of Israel, but that Muslim Arab states such as Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen, among others, are either totally judenrein or virtually so, despite having had large, flourishing communities of Jews living in the region for the past couple of millennia. Their ethnic cleansing took place just 63 years ago – accompanied by deafening silence from the UN.
… how your humanitarian aid contributions are NOT used?
Hat tip to blogger Solomonia, who published this video made by FreeMiddleEast.com. Visit FreeMiddleEast and view their other excellent videos on topical issues.
UNRWA is a UN organisation created solely for the benefit of 3 million Palestinian Arabs following the Arabs’ failed attempt to eradicate the Jews from the Middle East back in 1948.
Read how UNRWA with its enormous budget and large number of employees has the task of preserving the Palestinian Arabs’ “refugee status” from one generation to the next until eternity. UNRWA’s budget is paid for out of our taxed income, direct from your country’s Treasury.
At the same time, UNHCR – another UN organisation created to look after 30 million refugees throughout the rest of the world – has a budget equal in size to that of the Palestinians’ own UNRWA, but these funds have to suffice for 10 times more refugees. A Palestinian Arab is thus worth 10 times more than a refugee who has the misfortune not to be a Palestinian Arab. It is also noteworthy that UNHCR has about 600 employees, while UNRWA has about 25,000 employees. UNHCR’s payroll is thus only 2.5 percent that of UNRWA’s. It is remarkable to see just how much a Palestinian Arab is deemed to be worth, while noting just how little black Africans and other ethnic groups living on the edge of extinction are worth.
What is even more remarkable is that the world community continues to allow this abominable disgrace.
Palestinian Arabs living four generations in the Arab countries that started a war of extinction against the Jews in 1948 are not “refugees”. They are well-maintained political pawns. Political pawns in an expensive game financed not by the oil-rich Arab countries that started the whole sorry mess, but by you and me.
By us dumb citizens of the free world.
And we continue to pay without protesting against this travesty of justice, this total abandonment of moral, ethics, principle and common sense.
Have you asked your MP or Senator any questions on this issue recently?
Now’s a good time.
That’s now, right now.
Before your Treasury sends another few billion to the “starving” and “destitute” Palestinians of Gaza. See here how these poor people have been suffering while your tax dollars and tax euros have been at work. All they have is brand-new Olympic-sized swimming pools (remember their claim that they have “no water” and “no cement even to build homes”) and the only place they can spend your dollars and euros is in the brand new air-conditioned multi-level shopping-mall (don’t forget these poor people have “no food” and “lack even the basic necessities of life”).
So get in touch with your MP or Senator. Immediately.
Mind you, what’s the point of making a fuss? After all, it’s only money.
Yours.
Had any publicly funded Olympic pools or air-conditioned shopping-malls built in your area recently?
The price is immensely high – the terrorist organisation will have to release from illegal incarceration a young Israeli kidnapped from Israel while he was still a teenager. That boy’s name is Gilad Schalit.
It’s naturally a price Hamas cannot accept. We are after all talking about the release of the only Jew in all of Gaza (by comparison, 20 percent of the population of Israel is Arab, a stark contrast to the ethnically cleansed Gaza Strip which contains just this one Jew – Gilad Schalit). Since then Schalit has been held without access to his parents, legal representation, the Red Cross, the UN, the EU, medical attention. This is in contravention of a whole raft of international treaties on human rights to which every country is a signatory, but which no country sees fit to invoke as reason for pressuring Hamas to release Schalit. All the while these same countries continue to pour unlimited financial resources into the Hamas Islamist enclave. Schalit’s incarceration is the price the Gazans are paying in terms of lack of free and open borders, free supply of goods and services, free movement of people. Hamas feels it is right to impose a blockade on 1.5 million civilian Gaza Arabs for the pleasure of denying freedom to a single Jew.
That is the way Hamas values its own people’s best interests.
Hamas wants Egypt’s and Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip to be lifted. Thing is, Egypt won’t agree because it doesn’t want violent Islamism exported from Gaza City to Cairo. However, Israel itself proposed a total lifting of the blockade four years ago and has continued repeating this offer ever since. The reason is simple: the blockade was initiated solely in response to Gilad Schalit’s kidnapping and the continued rocket bombardment from Gaza on Israeli schools and kindergartens, power stations and factories, supermarkets and hospitals.
The fact that Hamas and their Islamist allies in countries such as Turkey, Syria and Iran feel this is the way to do business in the international community is one thing.
But that the world community, the international community that professes such concern for the Palestinian Arabs, will not even consider demanding an exchange – the release of a single Jew, Gilad Schalit, for lifting of the blockade initiated by the boy’s kidnapping – that refusal to make such an elementary demand on Hamas speaks volumes of the world community’s regard for justice, morals, principles and human rights.
2. Total cessation of rocket fire from Gaza onto civlians in Israel
But the world community does not make this remarkably simple demand. The world community does not believe that the Palestinians should be subjected to any demands.
So it isn’t Hamas that bears responsibility for continued suffering on either side of the Israel/Gaza border. It’s the world community that bears total responsibility.
The world community that flatly refuses to impose a single demand on the Palestinians.
The world community that has an automatic majority in the UN.
Today, 10 June, is the day the UN will question Iran on its human rights record. The regime need not worry – there are plenty of paid-up members of the Ahmadinejad Fan Club who in exchange for lucrative contracts are prepared to vouch for the Islamic Republic’s exemplary human rights record. Such as Turkey under its current Islamist regime, whose most recent spate of violence in the Mediterranean is highly unpopular in the country. The Islamist regime’s vitriolic stance is causing the Turkish population massive financial losses in terms of lost revenue, not least from the tourist industry. Syria’s representative on the UN Human Rights Council, Rania Al Rifaiy, is another avid supporter of human rights paragon Iran. She claims openly that Israeli children on school trips like to sing a song extolling the virtues of ripping into Arab flesh with their bare teeth and drinking Arab blood.
Watch the following video on Iran’s support in the UN.
To put into wider perspective what passes for human rights in the Islamic world – and to highlight the rest of the world’s deafening silence on the issue, particularly at the UN – read the following report on how a wedding party in Afghanistan was blown up, killing 40.
80 Muslim civilians butchered by Islamist murderers during mosque services in Lahore, Pakistan. Silence at the UN.
40 Muslim civilians butchered by Islamist murderers at a wedding party in Afghanistan. Silence at the UN.
9 Islamists attempting to murder Jews are themselves killed, and within 12 hours the issue is the subject of hot debate at the UN Security Council and the focus of universal condemnation.
The difference can only be explained by acknowledging that the world – including that hotbed of Islamist support the UN – does not care about the Palestinian cause, nor about Muslim lives, nor even about respect for Islam as a religion. The difference can only be explained by that basest of primitive urges, that cancer that is hatred of everything Jewish. Especially the Jewish state, the very embodiment of Jewish existence. It’s what used to be called anti-Semitism.
The maths is wrong, the logic is wrong, the moral stance is wrong, the cowardice is wrong, the UN as a hijacked tool is an insult to every thinking human being.
Ynet: Egyptian lawmaker who assaulted Israeli troops on the Mavi Marmara is threatened by Egypt for confirming that the Islamists on board the ship initiated the violence – the truth helps the Israelis and should be quelled
Click here to listen to interview with Israeli ambassador to India, Mark Sofer!
UNHCR vs UNRWA