The Ever-Growing Palestinian Problem

UNRWA seemingly defines its wards with great specificity: "Palestine refugees are people whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948,

If you had been living in any Arab or Muslim nation, all your life were born there, but lived in "Palestine" between 46 and 48 you are a refugee, to be used against Israel, until it's destroyed..

who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict."

when the Arabs were unsuccessful in their attempt to commit genocide on the Jewish inhabitants of the new Jewish state, just recognised the United Nations.

The ranks of these refugees (who initially included some Jews) have, of course, much diminished over the past 64 years. Accepting UNRWA's (exaggerated) number of 750,000 original Palestine refugees, only a fraction of that number, about 150,000 persons, remain alive.

UNRWA's staff has taken three major steps over the years to expand the definition of Palestine refugees.

there can never be enough weapons to be used against Israel

First, and contrary to universal practice, it continued the refugee status of those who became citizens of an Arab state (Jordan in particular).

Why in the world would that be done.

Second, it made a little-noticed decision in 1965 that extended the definition of "Palestine refugee" to the descendants of those refugees who are male, a shift that permits Palestine refugees uniquely to pass their refugee status on to subsequent generations.

the gift that keeps on giving.

The U.S. government, the agency's largest donor, only mildly protested this momentous change.

it's only other people money.

The U.N. General Assembly endorsed it in 1982, so that now the definition of a Palestine refugee officially includes "descendants of Palestine refugee males, including legally adopted children." Third, UNRWA in 1967 added refugees from the Six Day War to its rolls; today they constitute about a fifth of the Palestine refugee total.

These changes had dramatic results. In contrast to all other refugee populations, which diminish in number as people settle down or die, the Palestine refugee population has grown over time.

Soldiers of allah...Hamas recruits....Islamic jihad suicide bombers,don't grow on trees you you

UNRWA acknowledges this bizarre phenomenon: "When the Agency started working in 1950, it was responding to the needs of about 750,000 Palestine refugees. Today, 5 million Palestine refugees are eligible for UNRWA services." Further, according to James G. Lindsay, a former UNRWA general counsel, under UNRWA's definition, that 5 million figure represents only half of those potentially eligible for Palestine-refugee status.

it's that grand !