UNRWA: A Roadblock to Peace?
Now that Israel has withdrawn from Gaza, leaving Arab governments and their intellectual apologists in the West without a scapegoat, attention is finally turning to the real problems that are plaguing the Palestinian Territories....
Canada urged to help resolve Palestinian refugee debate
Canada is uniquely positioned to change the terms of debate about Palestinian refugees and push for their resettlement, an Israeli researcher says.
As the second-largest funder of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...