US to send $150 million to UNRWA, formally restoring aid to the Palestinians
BIG MISTAKE!
All refugees in the world who receive support from the United Nations receive it through the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), with one exception.
The Palestinians have their own U.N. refugee agency, UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, which has a long history of promoting anti-Israel propaganda at the same time that it provides health care, food support, housing, and schools for Palestinians in east Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan.
There ought to be a way to fold the legitimate efforts of UNRWA into the world-wide services provided by UNHCR. The Biden administration is making a serious mistake by simply reinstating U.S. funding to UNRWA, an organization that has a long-standing role in promoting Middle East conflict rather than working to resolve it.