"UNRWA, the United Nations agency tasked with caring for Palestinian refugees and their descendants in perpetuity, is facing what it terms its worst financial crisis ever.
'Crisis' is an exaggeration, but the agency undoubtedly has less money than it wants. Given Gaza's multiple woes (which UNRWA's aid ostensibly alleviates) and Israeli fears that these woes could spark another Hamas-Israel war, this may sound like bad news. In fact, it's good news for anyone who cares about either Palestinians or Israelis...
Two reforms are particularly essential. First, UNRWA should stop financing Jordan's outrageous apartheid system, under which 2 million Palestinians registered with the agency receive no services from the Jordanian government, even though most (as UNRWA itself admits) are Jordanian citizens. Instead of using Jordan's health and education systems, they attend special UNRWA schools and health clinics; many even live in 10 designated refugee camps.
Clearly, people with citizenship in another country shouldn't be considered refugees at all. Under UNHCR's definition, which applies to everyone except Palestinians, anyone who obtains citizenship in another country automatically loses his or her refugee status...
Second, UNRWA should stop financing the outrageous apartheid in the West Bank and Gaza-not the nonexistent 'Israeli apartheid,' but the very real one imposed on Palestinian refugees by the Palestinian Authority.
After all, the P.A. styles itself the State of Palestine, and has been recognized as such by the U.N. General Assembly and 135 member states. That recognition has enabled it to join U.N. agencies like UNESCO and non-U.N. agencies like the International Criminal Court.
But if you thought a Palestinian state would alleviate the suffering of Palestinian refugees, think again. Like Jordan, the P.A. refuses to provide services to either the 800,000 registered refugees in the West Bank or the 1.3 million in Gaza. In other words, based on the P.A.'s self-reported population of 4.9 million, it's refusing to provide services to a whopping 43 percent of the residents of its putative state..."