Dear Friends,
For decades, Israel has been blamed for the failure of peacemaking attempts while Palestinian intransigence has been widely ignored and underplayed. Even now, as historic normalization agreements have been struck in recent months, Israel is portrayed as perpetuating Palestinian suffering while, in fact, the Palestinian Authority is supporting violence to achieve the Right of Return and rewarding terrorism with life-long pensions.
Together, we can reshape the narrative to more truly reflect reality.
The United Nations treats Palestinians differently from any other group of refugees. All other refugees are looked after and usually resettled by the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. But, the Palestinians are under the auspices of UNRWA which has reinvented the concept of refugee as an inherited characteristic.
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Today, therefore, they count four generations of refugees, all the descendants of the original 750,000 Palestinians who fled during the 1948 war.
These now total over five million people all of whom are counted as refugees, even those who have been resettled. In every other conflict around the world, refugee populations decrease over time. Only here do the numbers continue to rise – a phenomenon which weaponizes the concept against Israel. The Palestinian Authority and UNRWA now declare that these 5 million Palestinians should be granted the “right of return” to their homes in what is now the State of Israel, a member of the UN.
Clearly this distorted, unfair figure precludes any talk of genuine peace.
Estimates suggest the true number of Palestinians displaced in the war who are alive today is about 30,000. In 2012, the US Congress induced the Department of State to conduct a study to determine the exact figure – but the report was subsequently “classified,” effectively burying it.
Please join us by signing our White House petition calling on the Trump Administration to declassify the report.
Additionally, we would be grateful if you could join forces with us by circulating the link to the petition among your followers.
Together, we can demand that the truth be exposed.
