Scathing ‘insider’ report on UNWRA to hit Obama’s desk

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) employs and provides benefits for terrorists and criminals, a former legal advisor who left the organization asserts in a report that is scheduled to be reviewed by US President Barack Obama and his administration.

James Lindsay, now a fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, served as an attorney with the US Justice Department for 20 years before joining the UN agency in 2000 and eventually serving as its general counsel. In his report, Lindsay notes that the US initially contributed over 75% of the funding for UNRWA and remains its largest single donor today, but the agency has long since parted ways with Washington in its policy aims and practices.

Lindsay warns that the agency currently offers "millions of dollars in humanitarian aid" to those that don't need it. He also recommends that UNRWA "halt its one-sided political statements and limit itself to comments on humanitarian issues," as well as taking "additional steps to ensure the agency is not employing or providing benefits to terrorists and criminals."

In many ways UNRWA acts a giant employment agency, as the vast majority of its 29,000 workers are local Palestinians who are listed themselves as refugees. But many of these employees are loyalists of Hamas and other terror militias, and its schools, clinics and other facilities have become outlets for anti-Israel indoctrination and weapon facilities for Hamas.

Lindsey also contends that his most important recommendation is the purging the UNRWA rolls of those with the oxymoronic “citizen-refugees” status. Currently UNRWA continues to grant refugee status to around two million Palestinians that hold citizenship in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

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