"Why is the Trump administration continuing the Obama policy of suppressing a report that will expose the truth about Palestinian 'refugees'?
This disturbing situation concerns the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. UNRWA is supposed to help Palestinian Arab refugees. But for the past 70 years, it has been supporting huge numbers of Palestinians who do not qualify as 'refugees.'...
Normally, the number of refugees from any war decreases with each generation, as the people in question gradually find jobs and housing and become absorbed in their host society. So how did the number of Palestinian refugees manage to grow from less than one million to more than five million in 70 years?
Simple: by inventing a new definition of 'refugee.' According to UNRWA, children and grandchildren of refugees are automatically 'refugees,' too. ...
In 2015, Congress passed a law requiring the State Department to prepare a report calculating the number of Palestinians who fit the actual definition of a refugee-that is, individuals who were living in British Mandatory Palestine from 1946 to 1948.
According to the Free Beacon, the State Department completed the report nearly two years ago, but never provided it to Congress. The report 'puts the number of actual Palestinian refugees at around 20,000, far fewer than the 5.3 million figure routinely pushed by UNRWA and pro-Palestinian advocates who want to see the United States and international partners continue sending millions in aid to the Palestinian government,' the Free Beacon says...
This week, a group of members of Congress, led by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) called on the administration to release the UNRWA report. But it shouldn't take Congressional pressure to get the Trump administration to do something that is required by law, and which every taxpayer has a right to expect..."