The Giant UN Agency Hijacked by Hamas (PREVIEW)

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Following Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel, many of us became aware, for the first time, of UNRWA, the United Nations agency serving Palestinian refugees. It receives hundreds of millions of dollars from the United States every year.

Asaf Romirowsky:
“As long as the world can believe that Palestinians are refugees in perpetuity and are stateless in perpetuity because of a so-called colonial empire that has been thrust upon them by the Jews, then they have the sympathy of the world. And that has been their success story.”

“UNRWA has been proven to be exactly synonymous to Hamas. The fact that they had Hamas servers under their headquarters, the fact that they had individuals who were part of the perpetrators of the attacks on October 7—UNRWA is no longer a legitimate organization. They have never been to my mind. ... It’s an obstacle to peace, rather than a solution to peace.”

Mr. Romirowsky:
UNRWA makes no distinctions in their hiring processes or in their background checks. If you’re a Hamas member by night and you’re an UNRWA teacher by day, the kind of education that you’re teaching is Hamas education. There have been ongoing U.S. congressional investigations to analyze what is being disseminated in Arab Palestinian textbooks. We find the constant glorification of martyrology.

We find the fact that Jews are the sons of pigs and monkeys. Maps of Israel don’t exist. There is the idea of from the river to the sea and of annihilating Jews and it should be all Palestinian. Coexistence does not play into this at all. Back in the 1990s, for example, during the Oslo Peace Accords, there was a demand that Israel and the Palestinian society should change their textbooks.
Israeli textbooks were already pro-peace, but Palestinian textbooks had none of that. There was no discussion about coexistence at large. This is exactly what we’ve been fighting for the past 22 years. Here in the States and in Europe, we’ve observed there is a disconnect about the reality on the ground and what it would take to create peace. To your point, peace should be the goal.

But there has to be mutual recognition. There has been a refusal to accept Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. Arab Palestinian propaganda, and Palestinian propaganda at large, has hijacked any conversation about actual scholarship and discussion about the history of Israel, how Israel came about, and the history of the Arab-Israeli wars.

The argument is simplistically put and watered down to a victim-victimizer mentality. It tries to portray the Arab-Israeli conflict as a binary issue. As a historian, I find that to be disingenuous and an anathema to the region at large, which is rich historically, theologically, culturally, and all intertwined. One needs to understand who the players in the region are, what they’ve been trying to achieve, and what is actually happening on the ground.