"The number of Palestinians registered by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) as refugees is at least four times inflated, former Labor parliamentarian Dr. Einat Wilf said in an exclusive interview... as she explained the decision by the United States to halt its funding of the U.N.'s Palestinian refugee mechanism.
Wilf observed that of the 1.8 million Palestinians living in Gaza, 1.4 million are registered by UNRWA as refugees. 'Almost all of them have been born in Gaza and lived there all their lives. By now their parents have been born in Gaza. Their grandparents have been born in Gaza. And yet they claim to be refugees from Palestine,' she said. 'I think we can all agree that Gaza is Palestine.'
Moreover, of the 5.3 million Palestinian refugees that UNRWA currently services, 40% live in Jordan as citizens and enjoy full access to state services, including health and education. 'So 80% of Palestinians East and West of the Jordan River are not even refugees,' Wilf said...
The former Labor MK heavily criticized the central role played by UNRWA in the perpetuation of Palestinian victimhood mentality and the creation of the myth that the demand to resettle in Israel and make Jews a minority in their own country is a legitimate demand.
UNRWA is 'wholly devoted to one political goal, which is the goal of return,' Wilf said. 'But return was established at the end of the war as the continuation of the war by other means.'..."