by Rabbi Dov Fischer in The American Spectator

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA, pronounced “un-ruh”) is a corrupt, Jew-hating, anti-American, United Nations terrorist-training institution. Under the guise of “humanitarian aid” and “education of children,” this satanic agency, composed substantially of terrorists, murderers, and their supporters, has schooled Arab children for 75 years to hate and murder Jews — ever since Israel’s founding in 1948. UNRWA is singularly responsible, more than any other Agent of Satan, for the Gazan Arab effort in perpetuity to destroy Israel.

Let us be clear. On the most intense day imaginable in Israel’s war against Hamas, Israel has not done anything even remotely comparable to what America and our European allies did to Dresden, Germany, on one of their most intense days. Nor has Israel, in all its defensive wars combined, done anything remotely comparable to what America did — justifiably — in one single day in Nagasaki or in Hiroshima. Yet, today, Germans are closely allied with America. So are the Japanese. We are real allies. How in the world did the Germans and Japanese ever forgive us for bombing their brains out?

Education. Childhood education. Teen education. Adult education.  That is the magic: educating people.

Why is it that Americans, through the past century, until the current era of college misfits, always opposed socialism and communism? Education.

Why did the public in the former Soviet Union, by contrast, stand for communism? Partly because they feared that Stalin otherwise would shoot them or starve them to death. But in greater measure because they were taught to believe that garbage: education.

And why do so many in China support the communism that destroys their individuality and leaves them with so much less freedom and possibilities than we enjoy? Education.

And why do so many hundreds of thousands of Iranians march in support of terror and jihad and bloodlust? Education.

And what is going wrong at Harvard, MIT, Columbia, and Penn? Education.

When you take children and subject them to indoctrination, by golly it works. We are no better in DNA than anyone else. If you subject our brightest kids to a socialist/communist/hate America/hate Israel 16-year curriculum, beginning in first grade and running through college senior year, then they will come out as brainwashed as anyone else. The only places where 90 percent of the people think alike are at liberal American universities or a Putin or ayatollah election.

Education matters. It has been the great crime of conservative leadership — the whole Republican Establishment embodied by the Nixons and Doles and Bushes and McCains and Romneys — that they have allowed the Democrats and the whole Left to seize control of our schools for half a century. Ron DeSantis is fighting back in Florida. He may be the only one doing that job right.

The failure to educate properly will destroy our country if we don’t watch out and take back our schools from kindergarten through college. We need only look at what the UNRWA has done in Gaza and in the Arab parts of Judea and Samaria (the so-called Palestine Authority) to see how satanic education poisons.

For 75 years since Israel was founded, UNRWA has been leveraging toxic textbooks and teachers to inculcate a murderous hate of Jews into the children under their care. Those kids grow up determined to murder Jews, acting as shahids (martyrs destined for heaven and the 72 virgins) or to support those who do it. Females aspire to birth many shahids and later celebrate when their kids blow themselves up with suicide bombs. These are a people with a culture of death. That is the first generation of UNRWA education. Then UNRWA created a second generation of that. And then a third generation.

When I grew up, there were only two peoples who had a culture of death: Klingons and Romulans. To which may be added: UNRWA graduates in Gaza. Beam them down.

Is there any surprise that the wards of the UNRWA have grown to slaughter women and children, behead babies — as many as 40 babies in one nursery room — put live babies in ovens to bake them alive, cut fetuses out of the bodies of living pregnant mothers, and then stab the mothers and babies to death? UNRWA literally has dehumanized them into animals. Even Hitler did not do that. What human being puts a living baby in an oven or cuts a fetus out of a living woman?

Indeed, why is the United Nations running refugee camps for people who claim to be living in their own land? If Gaza really is their land, how can they be “refugees” there?  And why is the United States bankrolling these camps when wealthy Arab oil sheikhdoms barely contribute?

It has always been thus. Makes no sense. And yet we put up with it — including every single Republican president except for one, the only one strong enough and brave enough to say “NO.”

According to U.N. records, the United States now finances one-third of the cost of operating the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Congress has the purse strings. Republicans control Congress. Please explain the disconnect.

Here are some of the U.N.’s 2022 numbers, with contributions listed in USD:

• United States: $343,937,718
• Germany: $202,054,285
• European Union: $114,199,150
• Sweden: $60,969,987
• Norway: $34,180,677
• Japan: $30,152,202
• France: $28,909,838
• Saudi Arabia: $27,000,000
• Switzerland: $25,534,028
• Turkey: $25,199,080
• Canada: $23,713,560
• Netherlands: $21,189,038
• United Kingdom: $21,158,281
• Italy: $18,033,970
• Denmark: $15,885,970
• Australia: $13,797,995
• Spain: $13,592,803
• Belgium: $12,558,653
• Kuwait: $12,000,000
• Qatar: $10,500,000

Why does the United States give 34 times the amount Qatar does? Or 13 times the amount of Saudi Arabia? And where are all the other Arab countries on the list? What do they know that we, the Germans, and the European Union are too foolish to grasp?

To this day, no other agency in the U.N. is a relief agency assigned to serve only one class of people. All other refugees of the world — more than 35 million in 135 countries — are served by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Arabs in Gaza and Judea-Samaria alone fall under the jurisdiction of the UNRWA.

Anti-Semitism, anybody?

Miraculously, for a people who have been living in the same place for decades upon decades, the number of these “refugees” grows each year. They live in the land they claim is theirs. (It isn’t.) And yet they present as “refugees.” That’s like saying — without getting into Democrat-versus-Republican politics here — that Gavin Newsom and Nancy Pelosi are refugees in California, while Ron DeSantis is a refugee in Florida and Chris Christie is a refugee in New Jersey. (Arguably, Donald Trump is a refugee from New York City, but let’s stay focused here.) Is Mitch McConnell a refugee in Kentucky? Dick Durbin a refugee in Illinois?

So these Arabs are not even refugees. At most, they are the grandchildren of refugees, if that. At that rate, I am a refugee from Poland and Russia (as a grandson of refugees from the tsar). Which U.N. agency is out there to support me and the other 5 million American Jewish refugees from the tsar? Or the 250,000 American Sephardic Jewish refugees from Ferdinand, Isabella, and the Inquisition?

And all the refugees here, now in 2024, from the Irish potato famine? And from Italy’s, Germany’s, and Poland’s political upheavals? Instead of calling ourselves a “country of immigrants,” we should denominate ourselves as “refugees” and all apply to UNRWA for cash, or, at least, a refund on our annual $344 million.

The UNRWA’s largest budget item is its school system, composing 58 percent of its budget. We now know that at least 10 percent of that staff — 1,200 staffers — are associated with Hamas, 190 are active terrorists, and many were involved in the Oct. 7 massacres and seizing of hostages.

In all, the UNRWA operates 706 schools with 543,000 students. Of them, 380 schools with 340,000 students in Gaza and the “Palestine Authority” in Judea and Samaria. The number of “Palestinian” refugees under the UNRWA’s service has grown from 914,000 in 1950 to more than 5.9 million today. In plain English, they do not even meet the U.N. definition of “refugees.” Meanwhile, approximately 900,000 Jewish refugees were driven from Arab countries at the same time the UNRWA was founded. The U.N. never created an agency to assist them. Instead, through self-help, those nearly 1 million Jews made it on their own. Today they are part of Israel’s quilt work of citizens from throughout the world.

Throughout the current Hamas-Gaza war, these Arab “refugee camps” have become centers where Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and related terrorists have stocked RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades), IEDs (improvised explosive devices), and hand grenades; built bomb-making factories; drilled 500 miles of underground terror tunnels; and recruited and trained children educated at UNRWA schools to detonate themselves. And you, the American taxpayer, are the chief bankroller.

Does any of this make any sense? Why are we throwing away all those tax dollars?

Freedom Caucus? Anyone? Anyone?

Now, in the face of the most recent revelations about UNRWA’s direct involvement in the Oct. 7 massacres, the United States and a host of other countries — including but not limited to the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, Finland, Italy, France, Canada, Australia, Iceland, the Netherlands, Austria, Estonia, Romania, Latvia, Switzerland, and New Zealand — have suspended their UNRWA payments. That is not enough. They need to terminate — not just “suspend” — those payments and cut off UNRWA immediately. It will be more humane to cut off UNRWA than to continue funding these schools that teach children to cut off people’s heads.

Originally published in The American Spectator

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