Thursday, December 10, 2009
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
UNRWA: Perpetuating the Misery - Isn't it time for UNRWA's chief to do some soul searching and look beyond blaming Israel? - 'Writing in The Guardian, Karen AbuZayd, the outgoing commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) calls to address the Palestininan refugee question. While apportioning responsibility to Israel, she fails to acknowledge the fate of Jewish refugees in 1948, her own organization's role and the neglect of Palestinian refugees by their own leadership and fellow Arab states...'
On this topic, please read:
The UNRWA Commissioner-General Karen Abu Zayd’s biased discourse, by Véronique Chemla
http://veroniquechemla.blogspot.com/2009/11/unrwa-commissioner-general-karen-abu.html