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UNRWA policy discussions often waste precious activist energy on the unachievable goal of getting rid of UNRWA – which would require the agreement of a majority of UN members. However, the UN will never vote for a measure that openly favors Israel. Instead, UNRWA policy change must be articulated in terms of universal United Nations values, which stress peace and reconciliation. It cannot be presented as a pro-Israel resolution. The working assumption is that UN members and relief agencies* funding the $1.6 billion UNRWA budget, 58% of which is earmarked for education**, ascribe to UN values of peace and reconciliation. UNRWA policy change must therefore be couched as an UNRWA Peace initiative, for UNRWA to conform to UN values.
The Solution-Seeking Business
Peloni: Facilitated emigration has always been the only real solution to resolve the Pal cleft which has been weaponized against Israel. Of course this weaponization was the very basis for the Arabs and collective West to refuse to consider any Pal emigration as viable. For Israel, it was the dependency on the Hashemites as some form of necessary ally to their survival which held them addicted to maintaining the Cleft in place, even though the Hashemites were neither necessary nor even a reliable ally to Israel. For these reasons, the Cleft has been maintained in place over the decades where the Pals have themselves become the victims of this cruel game, and whereby their well trained savagery brought about attack after attack on innocent Jews, and the response was consistently and inexplicably leveraged by Israel’s allies and enemies alike towards demands of greater and greater concessions from Israel without any beneficial effect. It is time to exercise the legitimate option of facilitated emigration to resolve this conflict, and a rational and efficient plan has in fact already been formulated and proposed towards this goal. It is the Jordan Option as described by Ted in his The Ultimate Alternate Israel-Palestine Solution (Jordan Option), Memo To Kushner, and other essays listed at the top of the main page of this site. We will hopefully see this plan come to fruition in the not too distant future. In fact, the description of the creation of a city for the Pals in Jordan, as mentioned by Trump, was one of the many elements which was described by Ted and Mudar in the Jordan Option.
Meanwhile, Egypt proposes to continue keeping the weaponized Cleft in place, as if doubling down on maintaining the existential threat against Israel were the ultimate goal, which of course, for Egypt and many others, it is.
An Israeli APC entering the Philadelphi corridor near Rafah during the Israel-Palestine warGalei Tsahal, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
In the wake of the horrific condition of the last three Israelis released by Hamas from captivity in Gaza, U.S. President Donald Trump has stirred the pot again. He and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have ratcheted up the pressure on the terrorists with Israel taking clear steps toward the resumption of military operations in the Gaza Strip should the president’s conditions not be met.
