"Uri Akavia, a researcher at Kohelet Policy Forum, recently published a new paper titled 'Is UNRWA's hereditary refugee status for Palestinians unique?' In it, of course, he details the origins of the issue since 1948, the year Israel was established, and its ensuing state of affairs.
'People have finally realized that UNRWA [U.N. Relief and Works Agency], is a very large and important organization that is perpetuating a problem that should not have even existed after 70 years,' he told JNS.
When U.S. President Donald Trump announced last year that he would pull $300 million in funding for UNRWA, which is in charge of resolving the Palestinian refugee problem, Jerusalem's Mayor Nir Barkat realized that he now had an opportunity to kick UNRWA out of Shuafat, a Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem the body considers to be a refugee camp.
'The U.S. decision has created a rare opportunity to replace UNRWA's services with the services of the Jerusalem Municipality,' he said. 'We are putting an end to the lie of the 'Palestinian refugee problem' and the attempts at creating a false sovereignty within a sovereignty.'...
According to Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 'UNRWA has so many problems,' he told JNS. 'The fact is that so many of the worst Hamas terrorists were educated in UNRWA schools, and UNRWA was used as a place where Hamas could store its weaponry in violation of all kinds of U.N. resolutions that prohibit conversion of refugee camps to military facilities.'
However, Gold pointed to what he thinks is UNRWA's worst sin: The 'conversion of the Palestinian refugee problem to a challenge locked into perpetuity.'..."