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“The report is said to confirm that, as opposed to what UNRWA and its supporters claim, the number of refugees is actually in the tens of thousands, not the millions.”
It is clear why the destroyers and saboteurs want to keep this report from coming out: it would end the gravy train of U.S. aid, or at least severely reduce it.
Of course, this is Obama’s doing: “Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told the Washington Free Beacon that the State Department first classified the report under the Obama administration and still refuses to provide U.S. officials with the information despite laws mandating its release.”
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The Obama holdovers in the State Department are doing immense harm, and it could be that we haven’t seen anything yet. President Trump should have cleared them all out immediately, and should do so now.
The following 6-minute video shows the real number of Palestinian refugees:
“State Department Hiding ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of Palestinian Refugees,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, January 18, 2018:
The State Department is hiding a classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could be a game changer in how the United States approaches the situation and allocates millions in taxpayer funds to a key United Nations agency, according to multiple sources briefed on the situation.
As the United States moves forward with a decision to slash funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the agency responsible for providing education and support to some five million Palestinian refugees, officials on Capitol Hill and elsewhere have been pressuring the State Department to declassify a report that is believed to show the actual number of refugees is far fewer than the U.N. claims.
Multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told the Washington Free Beacon that the State Department first classified the report under the Obama administration and still refuses to provide U.S. officials with the information despite laws mandating its release.
The report was described to the Free Beacon as a potential tipping point in the debate over UNRWA and its mission, which has come under increased criticism in Congress for what many claim is the agency’s anti-Israel bias and routine promotion of pro-terrorism doctrines.
Some State Department officials have acknowledged in private meetings that there is no reason the report should remain classified, according to sources who said the over classification is part of an effort to suppress this information from Congress and the public.
“I was informed that there is no justification for classifying the report. Rather, it is the officials at State Department who do not want this information out as it could and would lead to a call to reform UNRWA,” said one source briefed on the matter.
While UNRWA provides support to some 5.3 million Palestinians they claim are refugees, the actual number could be closer to 20,000. This disclosure could fundamentally shift the narrative with UNRWA and lead the United States to consider cutting even more of its funding to the agency.
Currently, any U.S. official seeking to read the little-known report’s findings must have top-secret security clearance and access to a secure facility containing the documents.
Revelations of this classified report’s existence and the potential implications come as the Trump administration announced that it would slash UNRWA’s funding by half, from $125 million to $65 million, in order to force the organization to implement a series of reforms.
UNRWA has come under fire from pro-Israel activists and some lawmakers for anti-Israel bias and complicity with radical elements of Palestinian society.
In addition to reports that UNRWA is using anti-Israel content in its classrooms, it has been caught hiding Hamas rockets in its schools on at least three separate occasions.
The U.S. report on UNRWA was first commissioned in 2015 by former senator Mark Kirk (R., Ill.), who was spearheading an effort to increase the organization’s transparency.
Kirk forwarded a congressional amendment to require the State Department to provide Congress with a report on the number of refugees served by UNRWA who actually lived in the territory now known as Israel between 1946 and 1948.
The State Department never acknowledged having completed the report, sources said, and instead classified it.
“State had neglected to tell Sen. Kirk’s office,” said one source with knowledge of the situation. “It seems that this was intentional.”
Once the report’s existence was confirmed, Congress, in a 2017 measure, directed the State Department to provide an unclassified version of the report. This, too, was ignored, sources said.
The report is said to confirm that, as opposed to what UNRWA and its supporters claim, the number of refugees is actually in the tens of thousands, not the millions.
Richard Goldberg, a former deputy chief of staff for Kirk, told the Free Beacon that the UNRWA effort was always about exposing the myth that there are millions of refugees who still require aid.
“This is about basic taxpayer oversight of an agency that gobbles up hundreds of millions of dollars ever year,” said Goldberg, the author of the original amendment that required the report. “Are we funding a refugee agency or are we funding a welfare agency that nurtures a culture terrorism and violence?”
“There’s a moral difference when it comes to U.S. policy and foreign assistance,” said Goldberg, now a senior adviser to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. “American aid for true refugees is one thing; American aid to subsidize a culture of welfare and terrorism is entirely different.”…
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23 Comments
6 years ago
Sounds like Obama holdovers afraid of the truth coming out. The truth is never good for Muslims.
6 years ago
America’s First Muslim President , Obama also pulled a Taqiya for many years justifying bringing in “refugees” . what Dems and corrupt media would not tell you that 98% of these “refugees” were muslims !
And christians , yazidis who were the real refugees were denied !
Dems including Obama have not only denied refugees status to christians from middle east who are real refugee but even have deported christians back to ISIS territory to be slaughtered by ISIS http://tinyurl.com/mtc3xch
Not one MSM media covered it !
6 years ago
UNRWA has come under fire for anti-Israel bias and complicity with radical elements of Palestinian society.
UNRWA is using anti-Israel content in its classrooms, it has been caught hiding Hamas rockets in its schools on at least three separate occasions.
6 years ago
democrats don’t know how to count, they turn a few thousand bums in palestine into over five million “refugees” just like they turn a few votes into landslides in elections. Time to do a census of who is what, especially in gaza.
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Yup! You certainly have their number. The Demorats are all about the Palestinians and anti-Israel. For them to fudge the numbers in order to send more money to the corrupt officials at the UNRWA is not surprising. I think the UN is a joke! I wish President Trump would cut all aid to Palestine. Those terrorists don’t deserve one dime of money from the US.
6 years ago
what, muslim lies, it cannot be /sarc off
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
What moslem doesn’t lie? No sarc .. answer is NONE … A moslem is incapable of telling the truth.
6 years ago
Where is Western Europe, China, Russia, etc.? Why are they not putting their money where their mouths are, hmmm?
6 years ago
Reply to
R. Arandas
Why is the US always paying more than everyone else? Did you see where some countries were chipping in more because Trump cut our aid to UNRWA in half? I say great! It’s about time.
6 years ago
Half of the Arabs that the UN originally classified as refugees were never refugees at all. They were poor people living in communities in close proximity to the new state of Israel. They were listed as refugees for the purpose of giving them food and sustenance. Meanwhile, the 800,000 or so Jews who were kicked out of Arab states after the war generally were stripped of their property, and fled with nothing. They helped build Israel. The world did not bemoan their fate or put them on permanent welfare.
6 years ago
Why is the US “paying tribute” to the fake Palestinians? It is a violation of US law to pay tribute to any country / nation / people. That is why the US fought the Barbary Wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_Wars
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.” – PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 1977.
— https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11401/palestinian-people
99 Percent of “Palestine Refugees” Are Fake
— http://www.meforum.org/7149/99-of-palestine-refugees-are-fake?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=fd54339206-pipes_mef_2018_01_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-fd54339206-33929733&goal=0_086cfd423c-fd54339206-33929733
Everything about the Palestinians is fake as it is a useful word to clothe a Communist movement to destroy capitalist Israel in the words of Arab nationalism and Islam. Even Yasser Arafat is not “Palestinian” because he was born in Cairo and is Egyptian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat. A Palestinian State did not exist before the creation of Israel in 1948 as that area was part of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) then a British Protectorate after the First World War.
The “Palestinians” are Egyptians, Saudis, Jordanians, Senegalese, Sudanese and a number of other Muslim invasive colonists. — https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269039/big-palestinian-lie-daniel-greenfield
The people who call themselves “Palestinians” are the descendants of foreign workers from the Middle East and North Africa who immigrated to the area around Jerusalem to take jobs provided by the Jews at the dawn of Zionism in the 1880s. Prior to Zionism, the area around Jerusalem was evenly populated with 25K each of Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Arabic 101: There is no “P” in the Arabic language. The closest approximation to the “P” sound in Arabic is the sound of the letter “B.” What group of people name themselves after a word from a foreign language? A people who do not exist and have no connection to the area that they are claiming. Even the star of the fake Palestinians is not Palestinian: Yasser Arafat was born in Egypt and is Egyptian. See:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat
The fake Palestinians are a leftover from the Cold War Communist agitation groups thinly veiled in Arab nationalism and Islam. The Communist fake Palestinians desire to steal what the Israelis have produced via the Israeli capitalist economy. Both groups live side by side and yet:
— one group is doing extremely well through hard work and brain power: Israelis,
— the other group is doing extremely poorly because they don’t want to work but would rather look with Communist envy on everything that the Israelis have produced: fake-Palestinians. The fake-Palestinians need to be repatriated to their ancestral homelands throughout the Middle East and North Africa, e.g., Yasser Arafat’s children need to be deported back to Egypt.
6 years ago
Reply to
John D. Horton
What country are you from? Your use of English is awkward, and obviously not from a native speaker.
6 years ago
Reply to
la bibliotequetress
The PA
= Palestinian Authority
= Something which is not exactly a country
= A Communist agitation organization hiding behind a thin veil of Arab nationalism and Islam
= Even the PA “star” leaders are not “Palestinian”
== Yasser Arafat is Egyptian
== Carlos the Jackal is Venezualan
= the Palestinians are just a bunch of criminal, gangster, mercenaries from throughout the world exploiting stupid White countries like the USA by guilt-tripping them into giving money to the UNRWA
6 years ago
All true, and I thank Ms. Geller for publicizing this cover-up, but in reality, the underlying story (small number of actual Palestinian refugees left, 70 years after the 1948 war) is NOT NEWS. This was the controversial aspect of UNRWA’s mission in the first place — unlike the UN High Commission for Refugees, which handles EVERY other refugee crisis in the world and aims to re-settle refugees as soon as possible in their host countries, the UNRWA was created to “temporarily” house Palestinians who had fled the 1948 war — AND THEIR DESCENDANTS to infinity — until they could RETURN to their former homes in what is now Israel. Most of the millions of claimed “refugees” in Palestinian camps are the grandchildren or great-grandchildren of the few remaining original, actual refugees left. I am unfortunately dismayed that Ms. Geller’s article completely leaves out this aspect of the situation, in pursuit of a more shocking story line. The true facts are deplorable enough as it is; why give people the misleadingly false impression that the US is actively covering up falsified figures, instead of merely (up til now) acquiescing in an overly broad definition of who is a “refugee”?
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Jacobs
Yes, correct. It’s not that hard to do the math. The youngest age of the original “refugees”, who weren’t true refugees since most left Israel voluntarily, would be 70 now. How many would normally have died by now, say if the average age of death is 80-85 or so? Also, what have these Arabs and their descendants being doing for 70 years? Some have held jobs, surely, but we seldom hear of what they actually have done other than live on the UNWRA welfare and learn in schools that teach hatred of Jews?
6 years ago
“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.”
Cicero 106-43 BC
6 years ago
terrorist agency like CAIR
