[ April 18, 2024 ]
The State Department continues to work in the cause of our enemies.
Here’s hoping newly confirmed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo takes no prisoners and does a General Sherman-like march through that rotting department. It is long overdue.
U.S. Government Hiding Report on Number of Palestinian Refugees
Lawmakers demand public release of report that could affect allocation of funds
Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 26, 2018:
Story continues below advertisementThe U.S. government continues to inappropriately keep classified a report on Palestinian refugees that congressional officials view as a potential game changer in how America approaches its regional policies and allocates billions in taxpayer funds, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the report.
Congressional officials familiar with the classified report, the existence of which was first disclosed by the Washington Free Beacon, say the State Department continues to keep it secret in order to not disrupt billions of dollars in allocations to United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the organization responsible for providing aid to what they claim is some 5.2 million Palestinian refugees.
Those familiar with the report say the U.S. quietly determined under the Obama administration that the actual number of Palestinian refugees is far smaller, closer to around 30,000. This disclosure could fundamentally change the way billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars are allocated to UNRWA and the Palestinian government and impact America’s longstanding policies regarding the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
Lawmakers are pressuring the Trump administration to finally release the report to the public. The Free Beacon first disclosed this effort earlier this month, publishing a letter signed by more than 50 members of Congress who are calling on President Donald Trump to finally release the report, as is mandated by current U.S. laws.
Those familiar with the classified report’s contents told the Free Beacon the State Department is intentionally trying to keep the document secret, not for national security reasons, but because of the political implications of its release.
Rep. Chris Stewart (R., Utah) told the Free Beacon in a recent interview that the report’s release could change how America provides aid dollars to the Palestinians and UNRWA.
“On its face, when you understand this issue, you think why in the world is this classified?” Steward said. “This isn’t the codes to launch nuclear missiles.”
The report’s findings, which are believed to provide evidence that the number of actual Palestinian refugees is closer to around 30,000 individuals, could spur real progress in the peace process by redefining the parameters of the debate on Palestinian refugees’ right of return to the Jewish state.
“If we can solve the right to return, if we can define refugees in such a way that it becomes possible, that’s an enormous step forward in the peace process,” Stewart said. “As long as you have a right to return for millions of people, there’s no way in the world the Israeli government would agree to or could agree to, if you could redefine refugees as a number that is manageable and fair and represents the reality, that becomes, instead of a stumbling block, it becomes a building block on trying to reinvigorate the peace process.”
Asked about the document’s classified status, Stewart responded, “there’s no reason in the world it’s classified. The reason it’s classified is because it’s a political document that the administration just didn’t” want to release publicly.
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30 Comments
5 years ago
Its Obama/Dems Pro-jihadi holdovers who are doing it. find them and purge them.
Muslims and Pro-jihadi Left/Liberals are pathological liars. share this is anyone believes their Lies http://bit.ly/2rF8pfo
5 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
There is no ‘palestinian’ — all there is are ‘patheticians’ — Pathetic arabian scums who have been rejected by all other arabs scums
5 years ago
Are they HERE or are we funding them in their country.
If they are here, send them back!
If we are funding them – END IT IMMEDIATELY!
If you want to give out money – SEND SOME TO ME!
Better yet, FUND OUR WALL!
We need to PROTECT OURSELVES!
We are in debt.
We have no business funding our enemies with money we don’t even have.
5 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
See my post above and you can find out the answer to your questions….with daily updates.
5 years ago
If any of you out there want to know what is really going on with the resettlement of dangerous Muslims into our country……start getting daily updates from Ann Corcoran at REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH. She has been an activist in this information for quite some time. She is on top of this like no one else. I’m thinking about writing Pamela Geller and asking her to carry links to Corcoran’s site…..
5 years ago
If any of you out there want to know what is really going on with the resettlement of dangerous Muslims into our country……start getting daily updates from Ann Corcoran at REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH. She has been an activist in this information for quite some time. She is on top of this like no one else. I’m thinking about writing Pamela Geller and asking her to carry links to Corcoran’s site…..
5 years ago
If any of you out there want to know what is really going on with the resettlement of dangerous Muslims into our country……start getting daily updates from Ann Corcoran at REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH. She has been an activist in this information for quite some time. She is on top of this like no one else. I’m thinking about writing Pamela Geller and asking her to carry links to Corcoran’s site…..
5 years ago
such BULLSHIT by Geller etc 750,000 in 1950 is now over 3 million at least not 30,000 you GOPtards are such FING IDIOTS
5 years ago
There is no way there could ever be 5 million or more palestinian refugees. What is being counted is every beggar and bum in all of islam, conjointly described as a palestinian. There are, like mentioned, maybe 30,000.Charity should be based on that number, not the imagination of thieves and liars.
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
Mahou, include in your daily updates the website of Ann Corcoran of REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT WATCH….she’s been tracking this stuff for years….add her to your sources of bonafide information….
5 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
you are a PATHETIC MORON, was 750K in 1950 of course it is bigger amount after 60 years
5 years ago
Reply to
nlcatter
There weren’t 750 thousand people living in the area then, there still isn’t. Usual muslim lies.
5 years ago
We need a war.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
If the progressive liberal demoncrap commies and the mudscum/mudslime keep up what they are doing, there will be one very soon.
5 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
Why do you leave out the crooked-for sale- traitorous RINOs in that list…..they are worse…we know what the Demoncrats are….but how much do we know about how the McLames, McFool McConnells, Rubios, Gramnestys, Lyin’Ryan….et al are doing to us in the back room while smiling at the cameras like a snake to keep us voting for them…..
It’s the “enemy” you don’t know who will sneak up behind you and kill you….the ones you do know won’t be able to get behind you….recall Caesar and Brutus?
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I consider the traitors RINOS the same as the progressive lyeberal demoncrap commies wxcept with a R in front of their name and have mentioned them as well many times.
5 years ago
Reply to
Alleged-Comment
NO ONE needs a “war”…..all we need is people relentlessly leaning on their representatives….when is the last time most of us have written or called our representatives…..or showed up at their public appearances…..or got off the couch to vote for or against them?
5 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
I do so many times.I send eMails and have called them several times as well as calling the President. But when you have the ANTi-TRUMP RINO murderer Juan Wetstart McScumbag, The useless Lying RINO with the horrible military record Martha McSellout aka McSmelly and Flake the lying RINO snake, not representing you,because they already have their mind set, It really doesn’t matter how many times you write or call. Their eMail responses go directly to my SPAM folder. I do not care about their worthless pre-written replies.
5 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
I get the same claptrap from McLame and Flakey Flake….but Congressman Gosar is different…..and he is always working quietly in the background to support Trump…..steadily.
He is the only Congressman who refused to go the “scolding” of the Congress by Pope the Idiot…..so brave of him…..I wish he was running McLame spot ……hopefully McLame will “vacate” it soon and we’ll have a special election to fill it.
5 years ago
Reply to
SNOWDIN
Hey, Snowdin…..I clearly get the reference to Lame McCain and Flakey Flake (McCain’s mini-me)….hate both of them with a purple passion…….but who is Martha McSellout? Would that be McSally?
I vote in AZ, but am in NV for right now….before that was in Arkansas due to family issues for a couple of years.
I had never really heard of her until she started running for Senator…..isn’t she former military? And what part of AZ is she in?
If it’s not too much trouble could you tell me why you call her a sellout? She seems so “conservative” when I see her on Fox Business News and Lou Dobbs. Any insight you can give me would be appreciated. Thanks.
5 years ago
The leftist-loaded State Department is the overflowing septic tank, feeding raw sewage
into the swamp. Mass firings are called for to clean it up.
D
5 years ago
They want to cut Social Security, so they can keep sending billion$ to terrorists.
D
5 years ago
The perfect man, NOT, defective DNA.
Muhammad was WHITE!
http://quranx.com/Hadith/Muslim/Reference/Hadith-2340/
Muhammad was a dwarf and fat!
http://sunnah.com/abudawud/42/154
5 years ago
30,000 is far too many. Israel is under no obligation to take in even three. The Arabs that refused to listen in 1948 to Ben-Gurian’s offer to stay and build a new country together blew it forever. The ones that stayed comprise nearly 20% of Israel’s population today and are the only Arabs in the world who have equal rights with everyone. They are even free to leave Israel and go and live in Gaza or Jordan or Syria, Egypt or Lebanon but I haven’t heard of any that want to.
It’s for the Iraelis to say of course, but I think they would be stupid to add to their present Arab population which is not exactly cooperative at the best of times even though they have plenty of MKs to see to their needs.
5 years ago
What refugee’s? The article doesn’t say, where the refugees are, or which refugees, etc. Are they here in the US? I thought Trump got out of that UN “program”. Millions or thousands of them…doesn’t matter. The many muslim countries should be taking care of them, or at least giving money to that UN program, not us! Our State Dept shouldn’t have anything to do with “them”! I want to know, if we have millions or thousands of “them”…HERE! Is that why our State Dept. is giving all that money to that UN program? The article doesn’t give any details, to really know what’s going on with this, but what part is clear, is that the US (the State Dept.), is giving away a lot of money, to “other” people….that we should NOT be supporting!
