Source: israelbehindthenews.com --- Wednesday, July 20, 2016
A Knesset briefing to discuss the funding of UNRWA by donor nations, including Australia & New Zealand, which fuels ongoing hate education and incitement, was held this week in Jerusalem. Yehudah Glick Chaired by Member of Knesset, Yehudah Glick, this briefing was attended by diplomatic representatives of several countries (not including Australia or NZ), as well as interested individuals from the media, people engaged in Israel advocacy and university students from USA & UK doing summer internships in Israel. Opening the briefing, MK Yehudah Glick, stressed the vital importance of donor nations insisting on accountability by UNRWA as to how the funds were being utilized. In addition he denounced the scandalous situation whereby the Palestinian Arab refugees were continuing to be kept in miserable conditions. Instead of giving them hope for a better life, they were being fed illusions, brainwashed by hate and denied any chance for a peaceful future. All this thanks to an international community which prefers to ignore reality and a Palestinian Authority which has a vested interest with UNRWA in perpetuating the problem. Bassem Eid, a Palestinian Arab human rights activist and a former resident of the Shuafat refugee camp, gave an impassioned speech in which he accused the UN and the PA of being complicit in using the refugees as political hostages to condemn Israel and squeeze more money out of a gullible international community. ...
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