$1.17 billion in funding went to UNWRA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, in 2022. The United States alone gives $300 million a year to UNWRA. All this money goes for one purpose: to serve the Palestinian refugees. Seventy-six years ago, UNWRA was established to help several hundred thousand Palestine refugees who ran away from Israel during the Six-Day War in which Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attacked Israel. These Palestinians left Israel, a place they lived, not a state that was theirs! There are 49 Muslim countries. Not one would take in these refugees. After Israel won the war, these refugees returned to Israel. It was the job of UNWRA to help them integrate.
In 2023, it was estimated that the UNHCR, The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, whose purpose is to take care of all the other 114 million forcibly displaced and stateless people, including over 36 million refugees in 132 countries, had a budget of about $9 billion. So 5.5 million Palestinians have been receiving $1.17 billion through UNWRA yearly, while the other 114 million displaced and refugeed individuals receive under $9 billion yearly through UNHCR.
After the Holocaust, tens of thousands of Jews came from Germany and Poland to their one and only Jewish homeland, “Palestine.” Until the 1960s, approximately one million Jews had lived for over 2,500 years in Iran and other Arab countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, and Morrocco. Jews lived in this region for over 1,000 years before the advent of Islam. Then, Jews in the Arab lands were forced to flee in a mass exodus due to discrimination and persecution, leaving both their land and all their possessions behind. Of course, they fled to Israel. In 1984, Israel carried out the heroic and historic Operation Moses, in which it air-transported 8,000 Ethiopian/Sudanese Jews who were being religiously persecuted from Sudan to Israel. In 1988, when Russia finally allowed Jews to leave, 750,000 Jews emigrated to Israel. Israel has absorbed Jews from all over the world who have immigrated to Israel, and though it has been difficult integrating all these people, Israel has not allowed them to remain struggling, displaced refugees. Israel has taken them in as they would take in family. Israel has no wish to remain a refugee country. Their goal is and continues to be to build their economy, become world leaders in medicine and develop the most innovative advances in technology. They have more than earned the title of “Start-Up Nation,” and in so doing, have helped to improve and contribute to the world, humanity, and create a safe, secure place for all Jews.
To keep out the Palestinians, Egypt securely built an impenetrable wall and closed its borders. Of course, over 87 tunnels have already been discovered between Rafa and Egypt. These tunnels are used for smuggling weapons into Gaza and for smuggling people out of Gaza. Egypt reportedly makes a fortune off this smuggling enterprise.
In 1948 and after the Six-Day War, Palestinian refugees went to Lebanon, where, to this day, they are still in refugee camps. Lebanon refuses to take them in. Brigette Gabriel, author and lecturer who was raised in Lebanon, keeps warning the world of how dangerous all the Palestinians are. She says, “Wherever they go, they cause trouble.”
With the help of UNWRA, rather than solving the refugee problem, today, there are 5.5 million Palestinian refugees. It is in the interest of Hamas, the Palestinian Authority, and UNWRA to keep these refugees dissatisfied, feeling displaced, and blaming Israel for their suffering. This keeps the big bucks coming to Gaza, shared by the overtly corrupt billionaire leaders who pay off the UNWRA and Red Cross workers.
Hamas, the elected government of Gaza, prevents the Palestinians, which has had self-rule since 2005, from ever obtaining this funding. The Israelis, when they handed over Gaza to the Palestinians in the hope that they would build a thriving economic community, left all their magnificent and profitable (multimillions in revenues) greenhouses for the Palestinians to work, profit, and thrive from. They believed that if the Palestinians did well and were happy, peace could be achieved. Within days, the PLO dismantled and destroyed all the hothouses and sold the parts for scrap. The PLO, followed by Hamas, preferred to keep the Palestinians living in poverty, with no investment in infrastructure, water, electricity, and computer plants, and with no hope of obtaining a standard of living that they see among their Arab and Israeli neighbors. Neither the PLO, Hamas, nor the UN saw any benefit in improving the lives of the Palestinian people. Their goal is to teach the Palestinians to hate the Jews, to act as if they have a just cause, to fight in the name of Allah and Sharia law, and to rid the world of Israel. With the backing of Iran, which benefits from the continuation of the conflict in the Middle East, Hamas built tunnels, obtained weapons, and indoctrinated the Palestinians to live to destroy the Jewish nation. For Hamas leaders, this is a win-win, in which they get the money and hope to get the land of Israel as well.
Every day, the IDF discovers caches of weapons stored inside UNWRA schools, and explosive devices stored inside bags bearing the United Nations logo. It has been proven that at least 12 UNWRA workers were complicit in the October 7 massacre, 3,000 UNWRA workers have relatives in Gaza, and underneath the main UNWRA headquarters 20 feet below the UNWRA offices, a Hamas server farm exists full of intelligent equipment which was actively collecting information for Hamas. The UNWRA workers would have to have been deaf, dumb, and blind not to know about this and all the other tunnels under every hospital, mosque, school, and building in Gaza.
For years, the UN has been sanctioning and criticizing Israel, bringing an average of 19 resolutions by the General Assembly against Israel per year as opposed to five per year against all the other nations and terror organizations combined: including North Korea, Iran, Iraq, North Africa, Russia, Venezuela, Libya, China, Ukraine, the Philippines, Pakistan, Bokahara, and Isis; all of which are known to incite violence and violate human rights. The UN appointed Iran, the greatest sponsor of global terror, to head the Human Rights Committee. Now, incredulously, the UN has placed Israel’s military on a global list of offenders for committing violations against children.
For years, Israel has complained about the UN, the Red Cross, and UNWRA. The Red Cross wouldn’t condemn the violence, rapes, and barbaric atrocities of October 7. The Red Cross’s ambulances have been shown for years to be transporting Hamas leaders and hiding weapons. The Red Cross wouldn’t demand to visit and examine the physical and mental health of the hostages as is their international duty and legal responsibility. In truth, it wouldn’t have made a difference since it was the Red Cross who, during the Holocaust, visited the concentration camps and concluded that the Jews were being treated well.
Israel has long criticized UNWRA, whose teachers have been shown to teach Hitler’s Mein Kampf and teach math using examples of how many Israelis can you kill. UNWRA, whose teacher said, “By Allah, anyone who can kill and slaughter any Zionist and Israeli criminal and fails to do so, does not deserve to live. Kill them and pursue them everywhere. They are the greatest enemy. All Israel deserves is death.” And another UNWRA teacher wrote, “Hitler, are you sleeping? Wake up, honey. There are still some people you need to burn.” If these are the educators who are being paid to teach the Palestinian children, if this is how children are being indoctrinated, what type of peace can there ever be?
When does the world wake up? When do we give peace a chance by ridding the world of Hamas, and of all those who sponsor, favor, and encourage terror? When do we get rid of the farce, of the hypocritical and dysfunctional UN, and teach the world true human rights? It’s time to stop funding terror and educate the Palestinians, as we educate the Jews, to live in peace and harmony, with freedom, with honesty, with equal rights, justice, and hopefully, prosperity for all.
By Ruki Renov
