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Monthly Archives: November 2005
Homeless in the homeland
Calling Ehud Zinar intense is like calling the Negev dry.
Whippet-thin and darkly energetic, Zinar is a man on a mission, touring North America, speaking to community leaders, clergy and school children about his former...
German Government: Indirect Support For The “Right Of Return”
One consistent aspect of cultural life in the United Nations-run Palestinian Arab refugee camps: the film screenings in the camps which motivate the refugees longing for a Palestinian "right to return" to villages that...
Critics say: U.N. Agency’s Work Misleads Palestinians
November 11th, 2005
A 10-year-old boy maneuvers through a schoolyard in Jenin, a Palestinian refugee camp of about 15,000 - the largest in the West Bank. He has been told by family and friends that...
UJC (UNITED JEWISH COMMUNITIES) Brochure on Situation of the Evacuees
Facts About Israel's Disengagement from the Gaza Strip and Northern Samaria
NUMBER OF SETTLEMENTS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 21 Northern Samaria: 4 NUMBER PERSONS EVACUATED: Gaza Strip: 8470 individuals from 1812 families Northern Samaria: 670 individuals...
Apply the Principles of UNHCR to the Operation of UNRWA
The UNHCR Model
The international community and most specifically the supporters of The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East, UNRWA, have for half a century countenanced a situation...
Alan Dershowitz’s View of Peace
Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz has written The Case for Peace (Wiley and Sons, NYC, 2005), soon to be translated into Hebrew, that is based on commonly held assumptions about the Middle East.
The surprise...
Israel Asks for UNRWA in Gaza to be absorbed by the PA
FM Shalom meets with new UNWRA commissioner
(Communicated by the Foreign Minister's Bureau)
7th November 2005
Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom yesterday (Sunday, 6 November) held his first meeting with United Nations Works and...
U.N. Agency Balks At Transferring Duties To Palestinians
A U.N. agency dedicated to the welfare of Palestinian Arabs is resisting Israel's suggestion that it hand over some of its responsibilities in Gaza to the Palestinian Authority.
The idea was raised by Israel's foreign...
UNHCR will not Handle the Descendants of Refugees… Unlike UNRWA
This information was secured from Brenda Goddard, who is with the legal department at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva:
If a refugee situation continues for a long period of time -- as for example it has...
Report #13, November 4, 2005: State of Gush Katif, Northern Gaza and Northern Shomron...
Commissioned by Israel Resource News Agency and the Center for Near East Policy Research
In this issue:
Special Needs Children from Ir Haemuna Ir Haemuna Neve Dekalim Elei Sinai still at the Crossroads Moshav Katif -...
