Israel outlaws UNWRA, bucking international pressure

[toomuchtime_]

The Knesset plenum approved final voting for two bills aimed at blocking the activity in areas under Israeli control of the UN Relief and Works Agency, which services Palestinian refugees in east Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank.Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Yuli Edelstein presented both bills in the plenum. According to Edelstein, UNRWA’s operations “eternalized” the issue of Palestinian refugees.

In addition, Edelstein cited the fact that UNRWA employees had participated in, and even served as commanders, in the October 7 Hamas massacre. Edelstein also mentioned incitement in UNRWA school curriculums. According to Edelstein, the time had come to ban the agency from Israel.

Edelstein did not address in his speech who would replace the services UNRWA provides for Palestinians in east Jerusalem, Gaza, and the West Bank.




After the bills passed, Edelstein called the bills “historic” and the “elimination of one of the arms of terror that acted under UN auspices.”

“UNRWA long ago ceased to be a humanitarian aid agency, but in addition to it being an integral supporter of terror and hate, is an agency to eternalize poverty and suffering. The rationale is simple – in order to survive, UNRWA created demand for the product it provides. The circle of horror ended today, they are out!” Edelstein concluded.The two bills are an amalgamation of five bills that were proposed by a large number of members of Knesset, from both the coalition and opposition, indicating broad support.

The first bill states that UNRWA will no longer “operate any institution, provide any service, or conduct any activity, whether directly or indirectly,” in Israel.

What do the bills state? ​

The second bill states that the treaty between Israel and UNRWA, signed following the Six Day War in 1967, will expire within seven days of the bill passing its final voting in the Knesset plenum; that no Israeli government agencies or representatives may contact UNRWA or a representative of it, beginning three months after the bill passes; that criminal proceedings into UNRWA employees’ involvement in acts of terror will continue; and that Israel’s National Security Council must report to the committee every six months regarding the bill’s implementation.


The first bill passed 92-10, with support from the opposition parties National Unity, Yisrael Beytenu, and Yesh Atid. The Democrats Party abstained. The second bill passed 87-9.

Israel outlaws UNWRA, bucking international pressure

The bills passed 92-10, with support from the opposition parties National Unity, Yisrael Beytenu, and Yesh Atid. The Democrats party abstained.

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The UN has demonstrated over and over again that it has no useful role to play in the ME if peace is the goal.

 

[sparky]

So now the UN is a terrorist org? ~S~

 

[toomuchtime_]

So now the UN is a terrorist org? ~S~

UNWRA is supporter of Palestinian terrorism, and the UN is a supporter of the continuation of UNRWA which makes the UN a supporter of Palestinian terrorism.

 

[ShahdagMountains]

UNWRA is supporter of Palestinian terrorism, and the UN is a supporter of the continuation of UNRWA which makes the UN a supporter of Palestinian terrorism.

I heard today that a female Israeli hostage is being held in the attic of an UNRWA employee’s house. Probably not the only one in that situation.

 

[sparky]

UNWRA is supporter of Palestinian terrorism

Only under Israeli law TMT

~S~

 

[toomuchtime_]

Only under Israeli law TMT

~S~

It has nothing to do with law. It is a fact that hundreds of UNWRA employees are Hamas members. It is a fact that several UNWRA employees participated in the Oct 7 massacre. It is a fact that UNWRA schools use textbooks that teach jihad against Israel. These are things we know to be facts and are sufficient reasons to ban UNWRA from any area Israel controls.

At the end of WWII there were millions of displaced persons in Europe and the various aid organizations provided emergency aid while helping these refugees to be resettled, and within a few years there were no more refugees from WWII; this was the model the original proposal for UNWRA was based on, provide emergency aid for up to five years while helping the refugees from the 1948 war get resettled, in Gaza or elsewhere and get on with their lives.

However, the Arab nations refused to accept the outcome of the war and refused to accept the existence of the state of Israel and refused to accept any UN resolution that would resettle the refugees anywhere but in Israel after Israel had been destroyed. And so for the sake of providing immediate aid after the war, the UNGA agreed with the Arab nations' demands to keep the refugees and their children and grandchildren and great grandchildren, etc. locked up in Gaza until they are able to destroy Israel and "return" to a place they have never been.

UNWRA has to be renewed every three years, so 25 times the UNGA has voted to keep the Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war refugees until the destruction of Israel, making UNWRA, in terms of the human suffering it has caused, mostly to the Palestinians but also to Israelis, by helping to perpetuate the conflict, the most expensive emergency aid organization that has ever existed.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Perhaps this is good for the Zionist slaughter factory, they're going to be needing that ammo.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Israel can clearly push the United States around but it can't push Europe around, thankfully the Zionist lobby is not as "well developed" as it is in the emasculated United States

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

 

[ShahdagMountains]

 

[Anathema]

Good for Israel. Now they need to leave the UN entirely, just like we do.

 

[Sherlock Holmes]

Good for Israel. Now they need to leave the UN entirely, just like we do.

The US can't do that.