End the UN’s Palestinian Refugee Charade
Congress and the president should force the State Department to stop covering up for it.
December 29, 2017
End the UN’s Palestinian Refugee Charade
Congress and the president should force the State Department to stop covering up for it.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), founded in 1949, provides social services and financial assistance to Palestinian refugees from Israel’s War of Independence—and their descendants. In every other case, refugee status is not inherited, and the number of refugees following a war eventually declines; but UNRWA will continue to support an ever-growing number of clients indefinitely. Richard Goldberg argues that the U.S. should stop funding the organization and demand that Palestinian refugees be treated like all others:
December 29, 2017
If Lorde Takes Her Principles Seriously, She Should Boycott New Zealand
Why the young pop singer should never go home again.
Islamism, Not Despotism, Is the Reason for Terrorism in Egypt
Sisi may be a flawed ruler, but he’s not the reason for Islamic State’s violence.
Why the Holocaust Was More Than a Genocide
A quest to annihilate both the Jewish people and the “Jewish idea.”
Archaeologists Have Found the Roman Sixth Legion’s Base of Operations in the Galilee
Where the soldiers who crushed the Bar-Kokhba revolt encamped.