Muslim Arab States Wasted Millions US Gave to Resettle Muslim Arab Refugees in 1950s

Decades later, there are vastly more “Palestinian” “refugees” than there were when Muslim leaders told them to leave Israel so that they would be out of the line of fire, and could return when Israel was annihilated. Consider the billions and billions of dollars these Jew-haters have received over the past 70 years, and it was all after the Muslim Arab states surrounding Israel wasted money that the US gave them explicitly for the resettlement of “Palestinian” refugees. “Palestinianism” is one of the greatest hoaxes perpetrated on the civilized world. And it was easily done, because it was in the cause of Jewish annihilationism. The Muslims have been slaughtering the Jews for 1,400 years. But for the past 70 years, the West has been funding it.

“The deal that disappeared,” by Eldad Beck, Israel Hayom, October 19, 2018 (thanks to David):

Historian Kobby Barda has found a lost chapter of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After World War II, the U.S. gave Israel and Arab nations $1.5 billion to solve the Middle East refugee problem. But only Israel lived up to its end of the deal.

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Kobby Barda couldn’t believe what he was seeing. While researching the establishment of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee under the auspices of the Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa, Barda found his way to the personal archive of one Isaiah Leo “Si” Kenen, a Canadian-born lawyer, journalist and philanthropist who was one of the founders of the pro-Israel lobby.

Among the many documents that record in detail Kenen’s work in the first years of Israel’s existence as a state, Barda discovered a lost chapter in the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At the start of the 1950s, in addition to pouring money into the Marshall Plan to rehabilitate Europe after World War II, the U.S. decided to provide money to Arab states and Israel so they could find a solution to the refugee problem created by the 1948 War of Independence.

The American aid earmarked to solve the issue of Middle East refugees was supposed to have been split evenly between Israel and the Arab states, with each side receiving $50 million to build infrastructure to absorb refugees. The money to take in the Arab refugees was handed over to the U.N. agency founded to address the issue of Palestinian refugees, and the Americans gave Arab countries another $53 million for “technical cooperation.” In effect, the Arab side received double the money given to Israel, even though Israel took in more refugees, including ones from Arab nations – Jews who had been displaced by the regional upheavals. The amount Congress allocated to provide for Middle East refugees – Jewish and Arab – at the request of then-President Harry Truman was equal to $1.5 billion today.

“When I saw the documents, I was in complete shock,” Barda says.

“The U.S. undertook to fund a solution to the refugee problem in the Middle East. A message Harry S. Truman sent Congress explicitly says that this is where the matter ends. It was a commitment the president made in a letter to convince Congress to vote for the aid bill. In other words, an important chapter in the history of the conflict has been lost, simply swept away by history. The people who worked on it aren’t alive anymore, and there’s no one who will put it back on the table. Now, when the Trump Administration is coming up with new ideas to solve the conflict and address the refugee issue, the information takes on new relevance.

“In hindsight, the Americans have already paid to have the Palestinian refugees accommodated, but they are still defined as refugees and still living in refugee camps. Israel, on the other hand, has taken in [Jewish] refugees from Iraq, Yemen, Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Morocco, given them citizenship, and ended the matter. In Jordan, where most of the Palestinian refugees wound up and which signed the aid deal with the U.S. – unlike Syria, which refused – there are still Palestinian refugee camps. This is the asymmetry that has been created in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and it’s very important to the historical narrative and to any future attempt to reach an agreement,” Barda explains.

The decision to send aid to the Middle East to solve the double refugee problem was the result of an Israeli initiative. The young Jewish state urgently needed foreign aid to confront the many challenges it was facing. One option was to appeal to the U.S., both because of its size and because of the influence of the American Jewish community. To promote the idea, Israel asked to establish a pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Then-Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Abba Eban suggested that Kenen – who served as spokesman for the Israeli delegation – to travel to Washington and work with the American authorities. The need for a congressional lobby was born out of the Israeli embassy’s failed efforts to convince the State Department to provide Israel with a grant, despite the support of President Truman. Truman tried to convince his cabinet that American foreign aid laws allowed him to move up to 10% of all foreign aid grants, meaning that the money for the Middle East would be taken out of the Marshall Plan for Europe. But then-Secretary of State Dean Acheson was a vigorous opponent of the idea of the U.S. sending aid to Israel.

Thus it was decided to hand the decision over to Congress, even though there were still obstacles to its passage. Eban wanted Congress to pass an aid law specifically for Israel. Kenen, as head of the new pro-Israel lobby, thought that the best way to secure aid for Israel would be by expanding the Marshall Plan to the Middle East and make it part of the humanitarian framework to address the post-war refugee problem as a whole.

“Abba Eban wanted his law to be included in the refugee aid bill. Kenen and others, including some in Congress, told him, ‘With all due respect, you’re wrong.’ The bills presented to Congress in 1951 included a bill to send Israel aid to take in refugees. It was the first and last time that any mechanism was established for the Jewish refugees,” Barda says.

American economic interests

“To avoid creating the impression that [the U.S.] was trying to provide aid to Israel alone, Kenen said, ‘Let’s attach it to the Marshall Plan, include the Arab countries, and break down the opposition in the State Department.’ The U.S. State Department has objected to the establishment of Israel as well as to giving it any money. In the end, the aid bill passed, because they managed to convince the same government operatives that the lion’s share of the aid was going to Arab states. Israel was only mentioned in passing, in half a sentence. Congressman Abraham Ribicoff Connecticut [who would later become a cabinet secretary under President John F. Kennedy] even argued that it was a terrible mistake to put Israel’s name in the bill. The idea was to soften the State Department objection through simultaneously sending aid to Arab countries, and it became the historic basis of that same deal,” Barda says.

In May 1952, Truman sent a message to Congress explaining the importance of passing a law for international aid and laying out his vision for the Middle East. Truman said that Israel and the Arab countries needed a regional approach to basic problems of economic development, which he called “vital” to easing existing tensions that were mainly the result of a satisfactory solution to the refugee problem.

Truman said that the aid he was proposing for Arab nations would allow them to produce more food and develop their water infrastructures, whereas the aid to Israel would help the young state sustain its economy in a crucial time of national development. Moreover, the president argued, aiding Arab refugees from Israel would serve three purposes: It would help their new home countries; strengthen the countries where they settled; and help Israel and the Arab countries by eliminating the refugee problem, which he said presented a “serious threat” to peace in the region.

Barda sees this as an enormous miss for Israeli foreign policy and public diplomacy.

“This information completely changes the perspective on the matter of [the Palestinians’] right of return. There are two nascent sides, both of whom a rich uncle agreed to pay so they could solve their problems about the refugees once and for all, just like what happened in the population exchanges between Greece and Turkey after World War I, and in the spirit of the action taken to rehome the German refugees in central and eastern Europe, who after World War II were returned to Germany, partly through the Marshall Plan. Both sides received hefty sums of money and were told: take compensation and let’s move on,” Barda says.

“Israel took in refugees from Arab countries and didn’t perpetuate their status by giving them any different status [here]. Arab counties didn’t do that – even though it was clear that the Americans had given them the money so they could feed the refugees, develop agriculture, provide housing and employment for them – in addition to the aid that was transferred directly to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency.

“If today [U.S. President] Donald Trump really wants to make a move toward creating a mechanism of compensation for the refugees, particularly with Jordan, where most of them live, he can take into account that any additional compensation will in effect be superfluous. This story could be a very powerful card to play, as Jordan and other countries have already received money to take in refugees,” Barda says….

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felix1999

5 years ago

It’s INSANE. They have been fake “refugees” since 1948!
Notice it is the WEST and mainly the U.S. paying for them.
This is nothing more than jihad WELFARE.
Look what the Jews did for Israel!
How come MUSLIM countries are not taking them back and PAYING for them?
These fake “refugees” should have gone back to the countries they came from.

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Phil McDonald

5 years ago

Thousands of Jewish migrants left their homelands east of Jordan and resettled without issue. Today there are no Jewish cities/towns in any Muslim states.

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felix1999

5 years ago

Reply to  Phil McDonald

We live in very exciting times! Israel is also 70 years old! That too is a milestone.
Then we have President Trump acknowledging Jerusalem as Israel’s rightful capital instead of Tel Aviv.

I wish I could say this is the first time ever, but I can’t without some more digging.
I can say that more Jews live in ISRAEL and any other country in the world!
It used to be that more Jews lived in the U.S. than Israel. That is not the situation.
Today more Jews live in ISRAEL than in any country in the world – just as prophecy has stated.
“Dry bones” is slowly becoming a reality….Ezekiel 37:1–14……

Zechariah 12 :2 -5 and 9

2 Behold, I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all the people round about, when they shall be in the siege both against Judah and against Jerusalem.
3 And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.
4 In that day, saith the LORD, I will smite every horse with astonishment, and his rider with madness: and I will open mine eyes upon the house of Judah, and will smite every horse of the people with blindness.
5 And the governors of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be my strength in the LORD of hosts their God.
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[9] And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem.

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poetcomic1

5 years ago

Reply to  Phil McDonald

It drives them crazy that ANY Jews live in the territories. Never mind that 16% of Israeli citizens are Arabs. What is ironic is that wherever there are Jewish settlements the Arabs for miles around directly benefit financially, in medical care etc.

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Suresh

5 years ago

Reply to  Phil McDonald

And the clown Left/liberal Pope wants christians to take in more of these Islamic wolves http://tinyurl.com/ydy8fkhl

Insane ?

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Ban Islam

5 years ago

Cut all aid to Arab, Muslim nations, unless they are true allies and not enemies of Israel/US. It’s time we stop bowing and paying them Jizya while they slap us in the face.

We also need to stop feeding the Muslim leeches in our countries. In the UK 50% of Muslim men, 70% of Muslim women are on welfare. That’s about 2 million (out of 3m) Muslims who are not working and living off the taxpayers (non-Muslims) backs. A true cult of parasites and destroyers.

They repay us with terrorism and gang-raping tens of thousands of underage girls. Meanwhile they enjoy the support of the UK govt, police, media and politicians. Honestly I have to applaud their cleverness at manipulating the gullible infidels who they exploit and kill at the same time.

But we need someone like Italy’s Salvini to tell them the party is over and send them all back. We should go further and stop buying oil from Muslim countries and cut off all trade. Eventually this evil death cult will whither away and die on its own.

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R. Arandas

5 years ago

So MANY billions wasted on helping the Middle East stabilize and democratize, and in the end, for what? Almost nothing, and their people still hate us more than ever!

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leonore35

5 years ago

Let us not forget also that most of the Arab states refused to take in the mainly Syrian and Iraqi refugees that headed for EU countries, stating they were ‘unsuitable’ for accommodation in their countries!

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Alleged-Comment

5 years ago

Now you see why we are in debt over our heads and still TAXED to death. They basically have been giving away money to your ENEMIES.

Who, of course, will NEVER pay you back. Spend, spend, spend is all they do. Oh wait, that’s not all they do. They also TAX, TAX, TAX.

That is why is important to reduce taxes and why if any politician DOES not do that is a worthless POS! I estimate 90% of taxes or more are illegal and only support government. So it’s like a virus that feeds off of you.

It gets bigger and more powerfool and you get weaker and sicker. Pretty soon (like in communism) you rely on the government to give you life, but it is really squeezing you to death.

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