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Yes, this is very nearly true; as far as you take it.
Because the creation of the Palestine refugees was a direct consequence of a foolish (and immoral if not illegal) action of the U.N. a Palestinian refugee is defined differently. But you knew this, you were just trying to slip something by us, as usual.
"Palestinian refugees do not fall under the legal regime of refugee protection of the 1951 Refugee Convention, its companion instrument the 1967 Refugee Protocol, and the Statute of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) which is eligible to all other refugees. For the Palestinian refugees a special legal regime was created. This regime comprises two special UN agencies - the United Nations Conciliation Commission on Palestine (UNCCP) and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) as well as certain provisions of the 1951 Refugee Convention and the UNHCR statute. UNRWA was established in December 1948 with the dual mission of providing direct relief and establishing a “works program” for the approximately 700.000 refugees that fled what is now known as Israel in 1948. These services have been provided to those meeting UNRWA’s operational definition of “Palestine refugees”: persons whose normal place of residence was in Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948 and who lost their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict. UNRWA’s mandate today includes also provision of basic needs to those refugees and internally displaced people (IDP) that had to flee their homes in the 1967 war as well as the
descendants of the original male Palestinian refugees from 1948 and 1967 under the precondition that they live in one of UNRWA’s five fields of operations, whether in a camp or not. Only one third of the registered refugees still live in refugee camps. "
The legal Situation of Palestinian Refugees, Palestinian Territories
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There is a backlash developing where the major contributors are considering a review of just how the UNRWA has demonstrated any measure of success.
Time to Reconsider U.S. Support of UNRWA --- 5 March 2015
By
Brett D. Schaefer and
James Phillips
Six Decades of Failure
UNRWA has required enormous financial support from the international community—support that increases as the population served by UNRWA increases. Although UNRWA receives some resources from the U.N. regular budget, most of its funding is provided through voluntary contributions. The U.S. is the largest single-state donor to UNRWA, providing $294 million (24 percent of UNRWA contributions) to support the regular and non-regular budgets in 2013. Cumulatively, the U.S. has provided roughly $4.9 billion in contributions to UNRWA since 1950. Despite this generous support, the U.S. has been unable to address a number of concerns about UNRWA’s mandate, operations, and impact.
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A Counterproductive Definition of Refugee.
UNRWA was set up to address a temporary crisis involving over 600,000 refugees defined as “persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine during the period 1 June 1946 to 15 May 1948, and who lost both home and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 conflict.” Many of these original refugees are deceased, but the refugee population has expanded to 5.09 million individuals because UNRWA redefined and expanded its definition of refugee. Today, UNRWA has made refugee status eligible to the “descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children.” Under UNRWA, even if a Palestinian lives in the West Bank or Gaza—territory governed by Palestinians—or earns citizenship in another country, he is still considered a refugee. Moreover, some registered persons receiving UNRWA assistance are “economic refugees” who resided on the Arab side of the armistice line or were nomads or seasonal workers who were not displaced by the 1948 conflict.
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Under current UNRWA Consolidated Eligibility and Registration Instructions (CERI) --- the definition of a Refugee is a one-of-a-kind nature. Only the Palestinians are allowed to define themselves and demand compensation. But I don't see the
Nothing you have said is wrong; but, it is not likely that in the next decade, the UNRWA will survive. There will be virtually no one that would match the international legal definition of a refugee in any other situation.
While the current situation generally favors the Palestinians, it is almost certain that in the long run, the Palestinians will not be allowed to takeover, overrun, or corrupt the State of Israel, the only country in the region which the world will never have to be worried about becoming a radical Islamic State.
Most Respectfully,
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