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United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/15 says it clearly: Israel must stop helping Palestinian-Arabs move out of the overcrowded, squalid UN Refugee camps in Gaza and into homes they would help Israel build, then own!
UNGAR 31/15 - "[C]alls once more upon Israel: (a) To take effective steps immediately for the return of the refugees to the camps from which they were removed in the Gaza Strip; and (b) To desist from further removal of refugees and destruction of their shelters;
After the wars of 1949, 1956 and 1967, and having been constantly attacked from Gaza, Israel finally took over in 1967. Seeking peaceful coexistence with the Palestinians, they began building homes for them, moving them from the UN refugee camps into which their Arab brethren had forced them (only Jordan accepted some Palestinian refugees); also seeking protection against further Arab attacks, Israel began building protective Jewish settlements in Gaza (as Americans had done in the US to safeguard themselves against Indian raiding parties).
Why the UN would take such anti-humanitarian actions that only penalized poor Palestinian refugees was explained in an article many years later (2005) by Alex Safian - who asks and answers a more fundamental question: "Why (so long after the Arab-Israeli wars) do Palestinians in Gaza still live in UN refugee camps, squalid and overcrowded, when Israel had built them homes, even giving them title?" The answer (which liberals ignore) - "Because the PLO opposes and prevents refugee resettlement. As the PLO slogan goes, 'A Palestinian refugee never moves out of his camp except to return home (to Israel)'". As for the United Nations enforcing the PLO slogan - at the painful expense of poor Palestinian pawns - the Arab block in the UN (over 50 nations) and their supporters clearly dominate and dictate the UN anti-Israel agenda.
News stories of the time tell of Israel's efforts to move the Palestinians out of the camps and into new homes, with a "build-your-own-home" program for Palestinian refugees. According to a news article at the program's start: "Nine new residential schemes built, housing some ten thousand families that have chosen to vacate the camps. Each family [was] given a plot of land. The new neighborhoods [were] built upon state land within municipal areas near the camps; each has an electricity network, water and sanitation system, road system, paved sidewalks, public buildings [are] constructed in each neighborhood: schools, health clinics, shopping centers, and land [is] allocated for mosques." Also noted, "As soon as his house is built, the refugee becomes the full property owner; in due course registered in the Land Register (Judea, Samaria and the Gaza District, 1967 - 1987; Israel, Ministry of Defense, 1987). The vacated homes in the refugee camps were taken down with the goal of eventually creating enough open space so the camps could be rebuilt as further new neighborhoods for the refugees."
That was the plan - unfortunately blocked by the Arab countries and the UN; the author enlarging,"It is not surprising that the PLO vehemently opposed this program - after all, former residents of a refugee camp, now living in a nice home in a new neighborhood, would have a stake in supporting peace [with Israel] and opposing violence - exactly the opposite of the PLO's strategy. What is surprising is that the (supposedly humanitarian) United Nations also opposed the program, passing harsh resolutions demanding that Israel remove the Palestinians from their new homes and return them to the squalid camps." Similarly, UNGA Resolution 34/52 of November 23, 1979 declared that: "[M]easures to resettle Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, away from their homes and property from which they were displaced, constitute a violation of their inalienable right to return; 1.) Calls once more upon Israel to desist from removal and resettlement of Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip. Perhaps thanks to this support from the UN, the PLO began threatening to kill any refugee who would move out of the camps. After a few such attacks, the 'build-your-own-home program' died; that is why there are still Palestinians refugee camps in Gaza."
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Gaza - called Old Gaza during the 3rd millennium BC, denoted the beginnings of civilization (Britain's Paul Johnson's "History of the Jews") - already a major city in the ancient world's first trade route, along with Ugarit, Megiddo and Jericho. At the end of the 600 page tome, Gaza again enters world history, Johnson recounting the United Nations resolutions of 1948-9, which offered homelands to both Palestinian-Arabs and Jews (splitting the remnant 30% of the British Mandate Area - 70% having been previously awarded by Britain to TransJordan, presently Jordan).
The Jews - having suffered the annihilation of six million of their world total of fifteen million - due to having neither haven nor homeland - immediately accepted the offer (creating Israel); the Arabs rejecting their offer. Five Arab nations then attacked to eliminate new-born Israel but were defeated - historian Johnson commenting, "The Palestinian Arabs ended with no land at all, just the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank run by Jordan."
The Gaza Strip is long and narrow, extending eastward from Egypt along the Mediterranian seacoast (about 130 square miles in area). Jews had inhabited the Gaza strip for thousands of years before there were even (or either) Christians or Muslims - however, no longer do Jews live there - in August 2005, in just seven days, approximately ten thousand Israelis in 21 Jewish communities in Gaza, were forcibly carried out by Israeli soldiers - an action "persuaded" upon Israel by the US, the UN and the international community (in pursuit of Mid-East peace. Note: In so doing, Israel became the only country in history to relinquish land acquired in a defensive war, to its enemy - that had not yet even acknowledged "peace" with it, or even conceded its right to exist.) After the Jewish residents had been removed, the Israeli army - at the behest of the Palestinian Authority - destroyed the Jewish settlement buildings, leaving only Jewish synagogues - fifteen minutes after the last Israeli soldier left, all Gazan synagogues were torched.
After the joint Arab armies had been defeated by Israel in the war of 1949, resulting in numerous Palestinian refugees - but despite having an available UNHCR agency for all other refugees the world-over (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees), the UN exceptionalized the Palestinian-Arabs by creating a special agency just for them, UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East). In addition to specifying the "who" and "from where" for these particularized refugees, the clout of the Arab UN countries established "unique" provisions, clearly destabilizing to any hopes for a peaceful future for Israel. The special provisions (only for Palestinian Arabs) conveyed "rights of return" to prior residents of the British Mandate territory of Palestine (before the Arab-Israeli war), including "all descendants".
Such an entitlement could only erect obstacles to any future Arab - Israel peaceful relationship, aggrieving Palestinians against the state of Israel. In stark contrast, the UNHCR agency, although only fractionally as large in staff size, but having many times over the refugee responsibilities, has continually and successfully helped settle its non-Palestinian refugees to re-establish themselves and their families, to achieve satisfactory and worthwhile lives. Under UNRWA, for Palestinian-Arabs however, there has been only increasing hate and anger as time and generations have passed, the numbers of Palestinian refugees as UN wards, constantly growing. In addition, the UN definition contradicts international law, under which descendants of refugees are not considered to be refugees. -(1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. "There are serious problems with considering descendants of refugees to be refugees themselves. Indeed, if one follows this definition, the more than 500,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries who came to Israel after 1948 would still be refugees even after receiving Israeli citizenship - and also all their descendants (since descendants of Palestinian refugees are themselves considered refugees, even if they have acquired citizenship, such as Palestinian refugees in Jordan). Thus, there would be in Israel today at least 3 million Jewish refugees from Arab countries." The double standard between treatment of Palestinian-Arabs (UNRWA) and all other refugees (UNHCR) is thus clear.
As of 2006, UNRWA reports that a half-million Palestinian refugees (from the original 80,000) are kept in eight camps in the Gaza Strip. The refugee camps in the Gaza Strip have among the highest population densities in the world - over 80,688 refugees live in Beach camp, whose area is less than one square kilometer.
After the 2005 removal of Jews from their settlements, rockets began being fired from Gaza into nearby Israeli cities; eventually there was Israeli retaliation; immediately there was condemnation by the UN and world liberals that Israel's reaction was "disproportionate". Then, in 2010, attempts to smuggle heavy military weaponry into Gaza was blockaded by Israel, the world again condemning Israel (an attempt by the Israeli Ambassador to explain that humanitarian goods were not being blockaded, only munitions - was shouted down by Jewish liberals - at Brandeis University).
In its 61 years or three generations of existence. UNRWA has now become the largest and most politically influential of all UN agencies - from an original 400,000 Palestinian-Arab wards of the UN, their number has grown to over four-and-a-half million; meanwhile the world total of UNHCR refugees has continually been diminished - a 2007 UN document stating that 21,018,589 refugees were under UNHCR's mandate, reduced from the 50 millions claimed some decades before - almost 30 million previous refugees successful in restarting their lives.
Regarding Gaza, despite having been the aggressors against Israel, and sharing the identical religion, language, culture and background, neither Egypt nor other Arab nations would absorb Palestinians - instead forcing them to become wards of the United Nations. For 19 years, through the 1956 and 1967 Arab wars against Israel, they were kept in UN refugee camps in the Gaza Strip, under the aegis of Egypt and United Nations. The pattern of "blaming Israel" was established and maintained: living under squalid conditions, wards of the UN, the poor Palestinians were the continual recipients of world pity - their sorry plight always faulted to Israel, though Israel had attempted to build them homes, objective a peaceful coexistence. The plan was destroyed by the the United Nations, steered by the PLO - Israel still, as always, blamed.
Aaron Kolom qualifies as a "rocket scientist" with over 50 years aerospace engineering: Stress Analyst to Chief of Structural Sciences on numerous military aircraft, to Corp. Director Structures and Materials, Asst. Chief Engineer Space Shuttle Program through first three flights (awarded NASA Public Service Medal), Rockwell International Corp.; Program Manager Concorde SST, VP Engineering TRE Corp.; Aerospace Consultant.
Aaron L. Kolom - from Brainwashed* and Miracles**
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