MUST READ: Proud Palestinians must lead the fight to reform UNRWA

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The author is the founder and director of the Jerusalem-based Palestinian Human Rights Monitoring Group.

We Palestinians can no longer deny our responsibility for the destiny of our people. For 26 years I have been devoting my life to the mission of defending human rights. I have seen wars and terror. I live in Jerusalem and was brought up in an United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) refugee camp in Shuafat, a refugee camp like 58 other UNRWA refugee camps created for the sole purpose of keep Palestinian Arab people in “temporary” conditions, for 65 years, under the false pretense and specious promise of the “right of return” to pre-1948 villages that do not exist.

As a proud Palestinian, I must take responsible for what will happen to our people.

We can no longer deny our responsibility for the future of our people.

UNRWA, to continue its operation, depends on death and the visual suffering of five million Palestinians who continue to wallow in and around UNRWA facilities....

more:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Proud-Palestinians-must-lead-the-fight-to-reform-UNRWA-383366

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1. more from the article...

2. Introduce UN High Commissioner for Refugees standards to UNRWA, to encourage permanent refugee settlement.

3. Cancel the UNRWA war curriculum, based on principles of jihad, martyrdom and right of return by force of arms.

4. Demand that UNRWA schools conform to the UNRWA slogan: “Peace Starts Here.”

5. Dismiss UNRWA employees affiliated with Hamas, defined by the donor nations to UNRWA as a terrorist entity.

What makes this article so important is that the author is criticizing the UN in very much the same way pro-Israel groups have for years.

It'll be more difficult to ignore someone like Bassem Eid.

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2. UNRWA's Chris Gunness attacks JPost, not Bassem Eid...

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Gunness knows better to attack the author, Bassem Eid, who actually grew up in a UN refugee camp and is a well-known Palestinian human rights advocate.

So he attacks JPost for Eid's op-ed and doesn't even attempt to dispute - with substance - anything Eid wrote.



Classic.

Just throw a nutty, go all ad-hominem against JPost for daring to post Eid's op-ed.

@Jerusalem_Post which employs pro-Jewish terrorism journo has article accusing UNRWA of supporting Jihad.I was not asked for quote of course
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

Ultra-right @Jerusalem_Post carries anti-UNRWA garbage boycotting me ie no quote. Ask @stevelinde y Boycott the JPost! Don't read their lies
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

Unbalanced journalism @Jerusalem_Post which carries rabid anti-UNRWA piece without quoting @ChrisGunness. Ask editor @stevelinde why. RT
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

@Jerusalem_Post with Jewish terror supporting staff accuses UNRWA of Jihadism. Utter rubbish which we reject. Shame on @stevelinde RT
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

I passionately believe in freedom of the press but I am equally passionate about fair and balanced journalism, which I will always demand RT
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

Ask @Jerusalem_Post editor @stevelinde why his Diaspora Affairs Corr, depicted here http://t.co/LJbX7MQpMH supported Jewish terrorism RT
— Chris Gunness (@ChrisGunness) December 4, 2014

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3. did Eid get get help from his neo-con 'bestie' Ben Pogrund ?

20 years ago Eid might have been a radical but these days he follows the likes of Khalid abu Tomeh. and why didn't Guiness address Eid on Twitter, 'cause you can't Eid keeps his twitter account closed and secret to all but a select few

https://twitter.com/eidbassem

Why else would Jpost publish him?

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4. Guess Eid isn't so reactionary anti-Imperialist & pro-Hamas enuff 4 some folks. n/t