{"id":21902,"date":"2018-08-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/regthink\/trump-unrwa-and-the-dangerous-palestinian-refugees\/"},"modified":"2023-03-24T22:33:36","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T22:33:36","slug":"trump-unrwa-and-the-dangerous-palestinian-refugees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regthink.org\/en\/trump-unrwa-and-the-dangerous-palestinian-refugees\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, UNRWA and the Dangerous Palestinian Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Since taking office, the Trump administration moved aggressively to shut down the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The United States, the largest donor to the agency, completely froze its donation for this fiscal year. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">According to email correspondence exposed by <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foreignpolicy.com\/2018\/08\/03\/trump-palestinians-israel-refugees-unrwaand-allies-seek-end-to-refugee-status-for-millions-of-palestinians-united-nations-relief-and-works-agency-unrwa-israel-palestine-peace-plan-jared-kushner-greenb\/\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Foreign Policy Magazine<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> , Jared Kushner, the son-in-law and senior Trump advisor, is attempting to shut down the agency, and place the responsibility for providing services to the refugees on their host countries &#8211; possibly mainly on Jordan &#8211; and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), which handles all other refugees worldwide.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Some historical background: UNRWA was founded in 1949 to provide emergency assistance to Palestinian refugees of the 1948 war who scattered in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">This is the largest and best endowed UN agency in the Middle East, and the second largest service provided to Palestinians after the Palestinian Authority. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">UNRWA employs about 30,000 Palestinians and is the sole UN agency identified with a certain national group and its struggle for independence.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">All other refugees around the world receive assistance from the UNHCR, including Palestinian refugees who reside outside the aforementioned countries and regions. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Israel and the United States, justifiably, accuse UNRWA of inflating the number of refugees &#8211; in 1950, there were 750,000 registered Palestinian refugees, and today about five million refugees are registered &#8211; a third and at times a fourth generation of refugees.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Despite Israel&#8217;s misgivings, until recent years, the position of the agency was secure. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">UNRWA was a symbol of the plight of Palestinian refugees and was awarded with <\/span><\/span><a href=\"\/articles\/%D7%A4%D7%A8%D7%93%D7%95%D7%A7%D7%A1-%D7%94%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%95%D7%A2-%D7%94%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%9C%D7%90%D7%95%D7%9E%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%A4%D7%9C%D7%A1%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%9D\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">sizable budgets<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> from donor countries, particularly the G7 nations, budgets that were often perceived as &#8216;hush money&#8217; by the international community. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">For example, <\/span><\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">in a speech<\/span><\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> delivered in Canada in 2007, Karen Koning AbuZayd, the Commissioner General of UNRWA (2005-2010), stated: \u201cMy agency and its work have come to symbolize the view that the international community cares about Palestinian human and humanitarian needs, and wishes these to be addressed in spite of the challenging political and security environment. \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">But in the following decade, the standing of the agency began to erode, alongside decreased international attention to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Western leaders focused instead on the effects of regional instability on cross-border terrorism and immigration flows to Europe. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The rise of conservative leaders, chief among them Donald Trump, also played a significant role in the decreased attention to the plight of the Palestinians.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Thus, some Western leaders came to perceive UNRWA as a problem instead of a solution. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">For example, in 2011, the Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs announced that his government will reexamine its contribution to UNRWA. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In May 2018, the Swiss Minister of Foreign Affairs argued that UNRWA has become part of the problem, because it preserves the refugee camps and the &#8216;right of return&#8217; instead of acting to integrate the refugees in their host countries.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">The growing pressure on UNRWA and the cuts to its budget have led the agency to rebrand the \u201cPalestinian question\u201d and turn Palestinian refugees from victims to a security threat. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Filippo Grandi, the Commissioner General of the UNRWA between 2010-2014 (and currently the head of UNHCR) would often praise the Palestinians in his speeches for their strength and steadfastness (\u201csumud\u201d). <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">He did this while being subject to pressures by donor countries to make the agency more efficient, fire international employees due to budget cutbacks and offer a more balance curriculum in the agency&#8217;s schools.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">On the other hand, the current Commissioner General of UNRWA, Pierre Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl, who assumed his position in 2014, during the rise of ISIS, significantly altered the rhetoric of the organization, a possible sign for growing pressures on the agency. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Unlike his predecessors, Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl does not praise the steadfastness of the Palestinians, instead emphasizing UNRWA&#8217;s commitment to neutrality, and warning that reducing the agency&#8217;s budget will contribute to the radicalization of Palestinians, turning them into a security threat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In a <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2018\/feb\/21\/trump-cuts-un-agency-for-palestinian-refugees-millions-in-jeopardy-generation-radicalised\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">February 2018 interview<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> to the Guardian newspaper, Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl stated after the freeze of the US donation to the organization: \u201cbut this is the biggest and most severe [funding crisis] in our history. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">I have just come from the Munich security conference. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">At every seminar, people were asking the same question: about security and how we combat radicalization. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">If you want to ask us how to avoid radicalizing Palestinian youth, then it is not by cutting $ 300m in our funding. \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">To what kind of radicalization is Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl referring? <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Surely not to Hamas, which is not mentioned in any official speech by UNRWA&#8217;s leadership. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl is warning the international community that cutting the agency&#8217;s budget will lead Palestinians to support ISIS &#8211; the jihadist organization terrorizing the West, which has not made significant inroads among Palestinians. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In <\/span><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unrwa.org\/newsroom\/official-statements\/statement-commissioner-general-pierre-kr%C3%A4henb%C3%BChl-unrwa-advisory\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">a speech<\/span><\/span><\/a><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"> he gave in Amman in 2016, Kr\u00e4henb\u00fchl made the explicit warning: \u201cWhen I look at the region, like you I sense the risks of radicalization of desperate young people are huge. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Extremists are on the constant lookout for new recruits. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">To date, few young Palestinians have answered the calls of groups like Daesh. \u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">In March 2018, during a conference held in Roma by UNRWA&#8217;s donor countries, Margot Wallstr\u00f6m, Sweden&#8217;s Minister of Foreign Affairs, called for an increase in donations to the organization. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">But her arguments did not focus only on Palestinian suffering, but also presented the Palestinians as a security threat. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">&#8220;We need to remember,&#8221; said Wallstr\u00f6m, &#8220;that UNRWA is of strategic importance to all of us, exerting a stabilizing influence on a region severely affected by conflict and extremism.&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\"><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">It is possible that Trump will fail in his efforts to shutter UNRWA, and due to strong European backing, the agency will manage to overcome the current crisis and raise enough funds to continue operating. <\/span><span style=\"vertical-align: inherit;\">Whether UNRWA survives or shuts down, the Palestinian have already lost &#8211; in the eyes of the Western world, the Palestinian refugee question has gradually transformed from an object of empathy to a burden and a security threat.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since taking office, the Trump administration moved aggressively to shut down the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. 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