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The Sacredness of the Right of Return

The participants in the activities to commemorate the Nakba in Ramallah demanded on Saturday the reactivation of the PLO Department of Refugee Affairs to preserve the rights of the refugees, the unity of the...

UNWRA refugee camps as artillery bases

The story is simple, touching and chilling: Children caught and killed in the crossfire of a terrible artillery duel. On Monday, April 10th, a little girl in the Arab village of Beit Lehiyah in Northen...

The PA and the UN allow Hamas to facilitate a TV Station in in...

Almost every media outlet covered the Palestinian elections this week in terms of the rivalry between the Hamas Islamic terror organization and the Fateh, which is also defined by Israeli and American law as...

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...

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...

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...

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...

The UN’s Palestinian Refugee Problem

In the aftermath of World War II, when it became apparent that millions of destitute refugees were not going to be attended to by existing organizations, the United Nations saw fit to establish an...

A Hard Look at an Agency in Trouble

UNRWA, founded as a humanitarian agency over half a century ago, has subordinated its role as a service provider to a political agenda. The only UN agency dedicated exclusively to one group of refugees, it operates...

Israel Spawns Terror Base For The Enemy

As Israel pulled its troops out of the areas where 21 Jewish communities had thrived in the Katif district of Gaza and four more Jewish communities in Northern Samaria, the Israeli public was under...