"If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning"

"On 26 January, in response to allegations received orally from Israeli officials regarding the alleged involvement of 12 UNRWA staff in the 7 October attack against Israel, and upon ascertaining that the individuals were indeed UNRWA staff members, the UNRWA Commissioner-General decided to immediately terminate the appointments of these staff “in the interest of the Agency,” in accordance with applicable staff regulations, in order to protect its ability to deliver humanitarian assistance. This decision was communicated through a statement."

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"More than 100 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) are involved in terrorism, some holding simultaneous positions within Hamas and the Agency, Israel’s delegate told the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization) today while representatives of States in the region and beyond expressed concern about that country’s systematic disinformation campaign against the Agency."

"It was an UNRWA social worker who kidnapped Jonathan Samerano from Kibbutz Be’eri, Israel’s delegate said, as she recalled how three years ago in the Fourth Committee, she had urged UNRWA to be accountable for the hateful indoctrination of children in its classrooms.  Her country had cautioned about “rockets and terror tunnels found underneath UNRWA schools in Gaza” and “textbooks calling Jews Satan’s helpers”.  However, its warnings went unheeded.  The 7 October events show a deep infiltration of the Agency, with employees taking part in the “abhorrent” acts of violence."

"Over the years, Israel has presented evidence that some UNRWA teachers were terrorists, some aid workers were murderers and certain classrooms were used as weapons storage sites, she said.  These neutrality breaches were never investigated.  Accusing UNRWA schools of “spreading anti-Semitic and jihadist ideologies” with “mathematical lessons centered on counting murders and suicide bombers”, she questioned UNRWA’s claims of school curriculum promoting gender equality, respect and tolerance.  Calling for accountability, she said her country “will not accept that aid flows through an organization complicit in terror”."

"Speakers in Fourth Committee Call Israel’s Charges of UNRWA’s Collusion Baseless Fallacies About an Agency Offering ‘Food on the Table’, ‘a Glimmer of Hope’"

United Nations, Meetings Coverage and Press Release, 14 November 2024

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On November 22, 1974, the United Nations General Assembly adopted Resolution 3236, "Question of Palestine" recognizing the Palestine Liberation Oranization as the Palestinian representative, noting their "right" to a state. The resolution demanded that the 700,000 Palestinians who fled from Israel in 1948 when combined Arab militaries attacked the fledgling Jewish State, be allowed to return. No mention was made at that time, or any subsequent time, of the 800,000 Arabized Jews who were exiled from Arab countries where they had lived for millennia in the ancient diaspora.

The 'right of return' applies only to Palestinians, not to the Jews whose properties and goods were confiscated when they were forced to flee the Arab countries they called home until 1948. No UN agency was set up to offer them humanitarian aid and proclaim them refugees in perpetuity. They found their own solutions, some settling in Israel, others going to international destinations, finding refuge abroad. In the very same time-frame, when Pakistan broke off from India in a cataclysmic divide in 1947, amidst the deadly violence, a million refugees resulted.

There has never been a move by the United Nations to demand those million refugees be permitted to return to their homes in India and Pakistan. When Turkey sent its military to occupy Greek Cyprus there were no demands that the 200,000 refugees who fled the violent conflict, be returned to Cyprus. Resolution 3236 voting saw 89 countries in favour, eight against and 37 abstentions. It was that resolution that led to the UN granting observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization, the original Palestinian terror group under Yasser Arafat. And when Arafat was invited to address the General Assembly, he wore a gun in a holster, as his version of a peace symbol.

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It took a decade for the PLO to gain legitimacy at the United Nations; from the time it was created in 1964 to the passing of the Resolution ten years later. In the intervening years it became renowned for terrorist violence, hijacking aircraft and vessels at sea, holding hostages and killing Israelis in suicide bombings. The Soviet Union helped the PLO draft their charter, asserting that 'Palestine' is an Arab homeland, Israel's establishment was 'null and void', even though the Soviets were among those in 1947 at the UN voting for Partition and the establishment of the Jewish State. 

In the San Remo agreement of 1920 the Jewish people were to be given legal land title to what is now known as Israel, including Judea and Samaria (now called the West Bank) and Jordan, the total land mass identified as the British Mandate of Palestine. Despite which the British later cut TransJordan out, handing it instead to the Hashemites of Arabia, as a consolation prize when they gave the Wahhabist House of Saud, Arabia, to be transformed to Saudi Arabia. Yet no one, much less the United Nations questions the legitimacy of the State of Jordan, 60 percent of  whose population is Palestinian; ergo a Palestinian state.