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Israel Resource Review
Latest Issue February 1, 2012
By: Suzanne Pollak
Palestinian children are being taught that Israelis are pigs and snakes. So said Arnon Groiss, senior journalist for the Israel Broadcasting Authority's Arabic Radio, during a congressional briefing last week. The schools these young refugees attend are funded by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which receives 20 percent of its funding from the United States, according to testimony organized by The Center for Near East Policy and Rep. Chris Smith...
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By: Raven Clabough
Textbooks provided by the United Nations Refugee and Works Agency (UNRWA) to Palestinian schools have been found to contain strongly anti-Israeli and anti-American sentiments. Experts testified on the content of the textbooks last Wednesday on Capitol Hill, prompting some to once again call into question the United States’ financial support of the UN. UNRWA, opened in 1950 following the Arab-Israeli war in 1948, is responsible for the health, education, and social services of over...
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MK launches international parliamentary campaign to restructure Palestinian refugee agency. By: LAHAV HARKOV
By REUTERS The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is one of the greatest stumbling blocks to the peace process, MK Einat Wilf (Independence) said at a meeting with 65 ambassadors and senior diplomats from around the world in Bar-Ilan University on Tuesday night. Wilf launched a new, international parliamentary campaign to restructure UNRWA and “combat the inflation of numbers of refugees” to make a two-state solution possible. “When I hear a...
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