Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tweeted on Jan. 14: “We suspended funding to UNRWA, which is riddled with waste, fraud & concerns of support to terrorism. UNRWA is not a refugee agency; it’s estimated 200,000 Arabs displaced in 1948 are still alive and most others are not refugees by any rational criteria.”
UNRWA says it serves 5.8 million Palestinian refugees.
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that “most people served by UNRWA… are either citizens of other countries or live within Palestinian territories. Most were not displaced by conflict.”
{Jimmy Quinn-National Review / Matzav.com Israel}
What 200,000?
There is only ONE – Rawshita’s dear bubby.
Secretary, you are a great man.
They left because their mufti urged them to leave. They were displaced because Arab countries attacked Israel and then made them into political pawns. Why aren’t Jews who had to leave Arab lands still refugees?
I’m so happy that President Biden has selected John Kerry and Susan Rice to be on my team. I guarantee you I will bring the plight of the downtrodden Palestinians to the forefront of Biden foreign policy. You can forget Russia, China and Iran. That’s fake news. The Palestinian suffering will be our number one concern.