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This post is about making a radical change to the education that
Palestinian Arab children get in their schools. A change for the better, but
then - as most people know - that's not saying much.
We have posted here about UNRWA dozens of times over the years. Why? Because its existence is a fundamental pre-requisite for the hatred and passion for lethal violence that is cynically injected daily, year after year for almost 66 years into the blood and consciousness of generations of Palestinian Arab children.
This has been happening for nearly seventy years. As refugee support organizations, can there be one as spectacularly ineffective as UNRWA? As a terrorist training institution, can there be one as heart-breakingly effective as UNRWA?
We have recently been focusing on the money problems at the billion-dollar-annual-budget agency, and how its absolutely sickening focus on educating for terror goes unremarked, unchecked and un-stopped by all of the world's agencies for the protection of children. We're referring, in no particular order, to UNICEF, Defence for Children International, UNESCO, Child Rights International Network, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Washington-based Jerusalem Fund, Save the Children, Arab Council for Childhood Development and numerous others. Thousands of bureaucrats, hundreds of fund-raisers and no one with enough time to address the daily disaster which is Palestinian Arab education.
Just a few recent examples of those posts of ours:
We have posted here about UNRWA dozens of times over the years. Why? Because its existence is a fundamental pre-requisite for the hatred and passion for lethal violence that is cynically injected daily, year after year for almost 66 years into the blood and consciousness of generations of Palestinian Arab children.
This has been happening for nearly seventy years. As refugee support organizations, can there be one as spectacularly ineffective as UNRWA? As a terrorist training institution, can there be one as heart-breakingly effective as UNRWA?
We have recently been focusing on the money problems at the billion-dollar-annual-budget agency, and how its absolutely sickening focus on educating for terror goes unremarked, unchecked and un-stopped by all of the world's agencies for the protection of children. We're referring, in no particular order, to UNICEF, Defence for Children International, UNESCO, Child Rights International Network, UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, the Washington-based Jerusalem Fund, Save the Children, Arab Council for Childhood Development and numerous others. Thousands of bureaucrats, hundreds of fund-raisers and no one with enough time to address the daily disaster which is Palestinian Arab education.
Just a few recent examples of those posts of ours:
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19-May-14: Will
momentary focus on UNRWA throw any light on PA and Hamas abuse of their own
people?
Now there's a new UNRWA crisis. Alright, not exactly a new crisis,
but a new batch of reports and headlines referring to something chronically
and terribly wrong at UNRWA - the abuse of its allegedly-humanitarian
mission, the mis-allocation of its massive resources, and the setting of its
hugely-politicized priorities. And naturally, the principal victims are the
children
UNRWA funds crisis worries Palestinian refugees | Nisreen
El-Shamayleh | Aljazeera | Yesterday | With a funding
shortfall of $101m, UNRWA, the UN agency that has been looking after
Palestinian refugees in the Middle East for 65 years has said it may be forced
to delay the new academic year at the schools it runs in refugee camps across
the region. UNRWA schools are considered one of its most successful
projects. With 700 overcrowded schools in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West
Bank and Gaza unable to open their doors to students, half a million
Palestinian children will be deprived of their right to education. And if
that's not enough, 22,000 UNRWA teachers will be out of their jobs...
And if that's not enough, there's a distinct loss
of perspective here. The Palestinian Arabs are part of a larger Arab world that
includes several of the world's wealthiest populations both per capita and in
absolute terms. If they can't fix this, they don't want to fix
it.
The funds of which UNRWA is so desperately
short amount to 0.05% (in simple words: one twentieth of one percent) of the
sum reported to be being laid out by the Qataris alone for something else
of a comparably urgent life-and-death nature.
Why single out Qatar? Because of the gas-soaked family business'
fraternal passion, endlessly trumpeted, to "leverage the enormous and
abiding symbolism of the Palestinian cause to both enhance its own profile and
credentials" [source].
Since Qatar's owners read the news and know
about the existential dangers of which UNRWA bleats, and do nothing to help, might it be a smart move if Israel were to step up and offer
to take over the education budget of the morally-and-otherwise bankrupt UNRWA?
And develop a suitable educational curriculum that actually promotes peace?
What an opportunity. And cheap at the price. And if children's
minds and welfare mean something to you, as they do to us, prepare to weep.
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