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George Barbier - Illustration from Les Chansons de Bilitis (1922)
Awoken by a kiss
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this is extra funny because the look of concentration on his face
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You know, for people who insist that Israel shouldn’t and doesn’t have the right to exist, “antizionists” are sure as fuck trying to make sure that it will be the only safe place left for Jews on the planet.
Almost as if your antizionism has never been anything more than naked antisemitism masquerading under a guise of ‘human rights activism.’
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There is No Such Thing as Palestinian Refugee Camps and UNRWA is a Scam.
Palestinian refugee camps are the world’s biggest scam and you’re paying for it.
It’s amazing how as time passes the number of people who fled from Israel 77 years ago keeps growing instead of decreasing. Either the Palestinians are secretly Time Lords who arrive in 2025 straight from 1948 or these “refugees” are people who’ve never been to British Mandatory Palestine, their parents have never been to British Mandatory Palestine, and in some cases, their grandparents have never been to British Mandatory Palestine.
So really, just people living in the place where they were born, often a few miles away from the place their grandparents fled from, which is ostensibly in the same country.
Yes, amazingly, a lot of Palestinian refugee camps are actually in Palestine. But more on that later.
Now let’s take a look at these camps.
Ain al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, Lebanon
Are you sure that’s camps? I always thought camps had tents, huts, hovels. You know, temporary stuff. However, it seems I was wrong. A perfectly normal city can be called “a camp” as long as it’s called “Palestinian.”
Now, a refugee is defined as “someone who is unable or unwilling to return to their country of origin owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted.” So what is the logic of Palestinian refugee camps in Palestine?
In fact the Shuafat “refugee camp” is located next to the Shuafat neighborhood and the two look practically the same.
Where does the city end and the refugee camp begins?
What the hell? Wouldn’t that make almost every city ever built in human history a refugee camp because some of the people living there have ancestors who were displaced from somewhere? How can you return to a non-existent country? I’m sure many people find it hard to return to Austro-Hungaria, Akkad, or Cimmeria… Okay that last one had never existed… but so is the State of Palestine.
Based on these absurd definitions, Tel Aviv and New York are just as much refugee camps as Jenin or Jabalia.
In short, Palestinian refugee camps:
Not Palestinian
Not refugee
Not camps
It’s a scam!
Palestinian refugee camps are just Arab towns and neighborhoods getting your money based on lies. Yes, your money. Why, who did you think was paying for this charade? Iran? Qatar? Palestine? Don’t be silly. These guys pay for bombs, not homes.
So who is responsible for this scam for which all of us are paying billions of dollars each year while real refugees who live in reak camps get ignored? It’s a criminal gang called UNRWA.
You see, the UN is like my left sock. You know it exists but it’s never there when you need it. Just ask the Bosniaks. And of all the rotten agencies in this rotten organization, UNRWA is the worst. It is a refugee agency created for the sole purpose of preventing refugees from being resettled.
Pure evil
The first thing you need to understand is that the UN already has an agency responsible for helping refugees. It’s called UNHCR. UNHCR has an evil twin called UNRWA, which is responsible for Palestinian refugees only. So there’s one agency for Palestinians and another for the rest of the human race.
Guess which one is better staffed and funded… The evil one of course!
Now, while UNHCR has resettled millions of refugees all over the world in the last 70 years, UNRWA (which employs three times as many people!) was unable to resettle a single refugee in its entire history.
Not one!
Worse, the 750,000 Arab refugees under its care increased to 5.6 millions, making it the only refugee agency in the history of the world to fail so spectacularly it increased the number of refugees it was supposed to resettle! It’s like inviting someone to seal a hole in your roof only to discover they’d shot your roof full of new holes and are in the process of drilling holes in the walls!
What the hell?!
At about the same time as the Arab Nakba, their allies, the Germans, experienced a Nakba of their own. (Nakba is an Arabic term for trying to genocide the Jews and failing miserably). After the war, approximately 14.6 million ethnic Germans were expelled or fled from east-central Europe into Allied-occupied Germany.
Why are they German citizens and not German refugees living in refugee camps in Germany? Why aren’t their grandchildren called refugees? Where is the German resistance in Poland and Czechia? Had Germans been treated like Palestinians, you’d have all of these and anyone calling to grant Germans German citizenship would have been accused of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Do you want more examples? Fine.
Turkey expelled 1.2 million Greeks in 1923.
Algeria expelled a million Frenchmen (and all Jews) in 1963.
Bhutan threw out all its ethnic Nepalis, almost 17% of its population, in the 90s.
None of these people are considered refugees since they have since been resettled. Certainly, their children are not hereditary refugees.
Seems like there are refugees and then there are Palestinian refugees!
Now, I don’t know about you, but this Jordanian kid who for some reason is called a “Palestinian refugee” doesn’t look 75 to me. Maybe, just maybe, she didn’t flee Palestine in 1948. Maybe she’s just a Jordanian kid living in Jordan, playing with an old key. Or maybe this key is just as old as she is.
This girl fled Palestine 80 years ago. She just looks really young.
If a 6-year-old Jordanian can be called a Palestinian refugee and her Jordanian city can be called a Palestinian refugee camp because her late grandmother walked a few miles from home when she was a little girl, then shouldn’t you be able to park in handicap spots because your great-grandfather injured his leg in an accident before cars were invented?
But wait! This gets even crazier!
According to the UN website, resettlement is the only durable solution that involves the relocation of refugees from an asylum country to a third country. However, this rule only applies to inferior, non-Palestinian refugees.
According to UNRWA, any person with an ancestor who left Mandatory Palestine in 1948 is a refugee, no matter how well and deeply they’re settled, and so are their children and their children’s children until the end of time. They absolutely can’t be resettled anywhere except where their ancestors lived at a certain point in time. Amazingly, Palestinian refugees can’t even be resettled in Palestine.
Only in Israel!
At the same time, millions of Jewish refugees in the 20th century didn’t receive a penny from the UN and there was never an UN organization to support them. I wonder why?
Now, remember the Jordanian kid from before? Jordan is an exception. Most “Palestinian refugees” living in Jordan are citizens. Other Arab countries are unwilling to grant citizenship to their fellow Arabs who fled from Palestine or their descendants. Looks like Apartheid to me, but what do I know?
However, most are willing to grant them residence and work permits. This means that all these people were settled decades ago but are treated as second-class citizens by their Arab brothers and sisters to appease UNRWA.
Yes, UNRWA is the father of apartheid in several states.
Palestinians in Lebanon cry out but UNRWA doesn’t listen
Why does UNRWA hate Palestinians so much? The reason is simple.
You see, UNRWA doesn’t view Palestinian Arabs as human beings. It views them as a weapon. For UNRWA, the only purpose of refugees is to be a thorn in Israel’s side. If this means a few million Arabs have to suffer for nearly a century… well, it’s a sacrifice rich UNRWA officials in Europe are willing to make!
For UNRWA, the only acceptable outcome of this manufactured refugee crisis is the destruction of Israel and the triumphant “return” of millions of Arabs (most of whom have never set foot in Palestine) to settle its ruins after the Jews had been removed. This is literally what they teach in UNRWA schools.
Apparently, this is what UNRWA’s funders want as well. This is the only logical explanation for UNRWA’s unique mandate and the separation of Palestinian refugees from all other refugees, as well as their unique hereditary privilege.
As I said earlier, you’re paying for it.
Before the war, UNRWA’s budget rose to $1.6 billion. Since the start of his administration, Biden has contributed $618 million of your tax dollars to fund this organization, whose sole objective is to prevent a problem from being solved. A problem that costs a lot of money as well.
UNRWA’s output isn’t zero. It’s a negative. It’s like a machine built to suck!
UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness says so openly: “It is wishful, cynical thinking to suppose that Palestinian refugees can be made to go away by dispersing them around the globe.”
By his own admission, UNRWA have no desire to resettle the Palestinians like the Germans, the Jews, the Greeks, the Turks, the Cypriots, the Georgians, the French, or any other group of displaced persons in human history…
And have no doubt: even if a Palestinian state is created within the 1967 borders, it will not accept the Palestinian “refugees” any more than any other Arab state had so far. You’ll have Palestinian apartheid against Palestinians in Palestine and you’ll be racist for noticing it.
The Palestinians refugees, who in reality are UNRWA’s hostages rather than beneficiaries, will go on being weaponized against Israel as long as UNRWA exists. If you want peace in the middle east, your first step is clear:
ABOLISH FUCKING UNRWA!
URI KURLIANCHIK
DEC 11
UNKRA for South Koreans operated between 1950-1958. It is defunct. It is not needed anymore, the goal has been achieved and Koreans have thrived. Why hasn't UNWRA done the same for Palestinians within even 10 years?
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From the series “Remnants: the last Jews of Poland.” Photographs by Tomasz Tomaszewski, 1980 - 1985
In a five-year voyage of personal discovery, Tomasz Tomaszewski and his wife Malgorzata Niezabitowska crisscrossed Poland to document the lonely survivors of the country’s once-vibrant Jewish community. ″To most Poles, especially those born after the war, Polish Jews are as abstract and as remote in history as the mysterious Etruscan people to contemporary Romans,″ the couple wrote in an introduction to the photo exhibit, ″But Jews lived here with us for 1,000 years. Normally, when a culture disappears, it takes a millenium or more. With Polish Jews it took only 20 years. What was left on this soil from the great and luxurious Jewish civilization? Our attempt to answer this question was for us a temptation and at the same time a need to face a painful and complex problem." Between 1980 and 1985, the couple drove more than 48,000 miles in their car, interviewed more than 3,000 people, and Tomaszewski took more than 7,000 photographs.
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Jewish shoemakers in Luboml, Volhynia region, ca. 1920
So, let me get this straight - the left are now having a total meltdown over a film about the Virgin Mary casting an Israeli Jewish woman to play a Jewish woman from Judea, literally the same land where Israel currently is? You couldn’t get better and more representative casting if you tried.
Whatever happened to ‘representation is important’ or does that, like literally everything else, not count for Jews?
Truly, deeply unserious people 🙄
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