The Palestinian cause is riddled with inconsistencies, this is most evident when it comes to their denials of what most would consider historical facts or established definitions of numerous terms.
The most obvious of them all would be the definition of a refugee camp, and the United Nations has been complicit in amplifying this point. According to the UN High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), the primary body dealing with displaced people, refugee camps are “temporary facilities built to provide immediate protection and assistance to people who have been forced to flee their homes due to war, persecution or violence.” The painting that is drawn from this very broad term is that refugee camps must be full of temporary housing such as tents or even tin homes and medical posts must be all over due to the “refugees” being in dire need of all kinds of assistance.
A different section of the UN, called The United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA), which focuses on helping the self-defined Palestinian refugees, states that between the West Bank and Gaza Strip, there are 31 official and unofficial refugee camps. The vast majority of those camps look nothing like what one would assume a refugee camp looks like based on the UN’s definition. Permanent buildings are widespread in these “refugee camps” and 'medical posts' are not a common sighting, rather full-fledged hospitals exist to serve the needs of those living in these so-called camps.
UNHCR emerged after WWII to help the displaced. Established on December 14, 1950, the agency was given a three-year mandate to complete its work.
— Claire (@Claire_V0ltaire) July 17, 2022
There are zero refugees listed from WWII.
There are 5.6 million refugees listed at UNRWA from a war in 1948 that had 20K casualties.
Sure, one inconsistency between two departments of the UN may not be convincing, and a deeper dive into the statistics brings about a clear picture of how organizations like the UN are complicit in fueling the ongoing Palestinian conflict. One look at UNRWA’s definition of who can be called a Palestinian refugee and it is clear, that something is terribly wrong. UNRWA's guidelines state that "persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict."
This is a reasonable definition, however, in practice, it is not the case. According to the World population review, the median age of Palestinians today stands at 21.9. Meaning, that the median population of Palestinians today is not even old enough to remember the Second Intifada, let alone the Israeli war of independence that led to, supposedly, the displacement of many of their ancestors. So, the question must be asked why are there so many 'Palestinian' refugee camps in Palestine, Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon that UNRWA is funding?
Now, almost no Arab country is willing to grant citizenship to Palestinians (which is in itself scandalous) but most are willing to grant them residence and work permits. So in practice, all these millions of people are settled. Still, they're told they're refugees. Why? >>
— Uri Kurlianchik (@VerminusM) July 14, 2022
Palestinian demographics also mention that currently, the population is increasing at a rate of over 2.5% per year, which is by far larger than the measly 0.2% Germany can boast about or Italy’s -0.1% negative birth rate. Looking at these raw stats without the full picture or a specific narrative, an assumption can be made that Palestinians are not only not a suffering people but doing pretty well with a bright future ahead. A large amount of young potential laborers and an extremely healthy population growth rate? All of Europe should be jealous!
Let’s go back to the term refugee and refugees worldwide. Until 1971-72, Modern day India dealt with over 8 million refugees from all across the Indo-sub-continent due to the partition of India after World War II. The partition of British India in 1947, similar to the Palestine Mandate’s partition plan of 1947, dealt with a broader issue of decolonization and properly allocating lands to what the British defined as different ethnicities.
UNRWA literally creates refugees and depletes resources from refugees created by war served by UNHCR.
— Faith Quintero (@FaithQuintero7) September 6, 2022
In the process of creating what is modern-day India, Pakistan, and later Bangladesh, 8 million people were displaced from the lands usually indigenous to them. What happens to the 8 million refugees, according to the UN’s definition, is up for debate based on who they are. For the Indians, Pakistanis, and Bangladeshi refugees, it means that there can be no more than 8 million. For Palestinians, it means something different.
Under UNHCR rules, the number of refugees cannot grow after the initial displacement. and so it will not grow ever again. The partition of British India was a crucial event marked in all history books and the refugees from that event are also a part of history, the numbers cannot be changed because facts are real and that number is what virtually all modern historians and records agree on.
Because... The UN created separate refugee guidelines for "Palestinians" with the UNRWA that it didn't use for the UNHCR...
— Chanah Angelica Kamen (@AngelicaKamen) June 22, 2022
These people are used as pawns, the UNRWA does't resettle them, to create a "crisis" of ever growing refugee numbers, to use against Israel as a weapon. https://t.co/yXDCz4Beni
The same goes for refugees all over, Nazi Germany left millions of people from various backgrounds with that same refugee definition the UN is credited for. None of the descendants of those refugees close to 80 years later have requested refugee status for very clear reasons, they are no longer refugees.
But when it comes to Israel, the partition and Israeli war for independence between the years of 1947-49 had left anywhere between 650,000-750,000 Palestinians with the same exact refugee status that those displaced in India and Europe had. The only difference would be that for some peculiar reason that number has grown and now stands at roughly 7 million across the globe. How could that be? The answer is quite straightforward. UNRWA under immense pressure has made the conclusion that all descendants of these initial independence war displaced peoples will also be defined as refugees. A notion that is as preposterous as saying that all holocaust survivor descendants are survivors themselves, or that a huge chunk of Indians today are also refugees like their grandparents were.
What this means is that a girl of Palestinian descent who was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, and holds U.S. citizenship, is a refugee of Palestine according to the UNRWA.
The UN refuses to limit the time on which a refugee camp remains aligned with its definition and UNRWA refuses to recalculate the meaning of a Palestinian refugee. What this actually means is that the Palestinian people are not colonized by Israel and its mighty military, but by the UN and the corrupt Palestinian Authority that graciously accepts the term “Refugee” and billions of dollars in funding that comes with it.
UNRWA condemns Palestinians to eternal victimhood.
— Jerusalem of Iron 🇮🇱 עם ישראל חי (@jerusalemofiron) November 14, 2021
UNRWA should be eliminated, with refugee aid /resettlement undertaken by UNHCR.
"UNHCR will train them, create jobs & give them homes in the countries where they were born and where they must be granted full citizenship." https://t.co/wWN1AIOJU2
Young Palestinians all over may wonder why they have been cursed with this verbally crippling status, and their emotions and anger are just. What is not just, is the ongoing subjugation of an entire population that is spread across the globe facilitated by the United Nations, so a few 'Palestinian' leaders can get filthy rich.
It is time to defund UNRWA and stop the insanity.
