Photo Credit: Issam Rimawi/Flash 90
Abbas, in background on the left, may get a war crimes trial instead of a Nobel Peace Prize for Fatah rockets on Israel.

Unfortunately, through the United Nations, the Western world willingly collaborates with the Palestinian Arabs. It supports their outrageous claims and deliberately refuses to resolve the Palestinian Arab issue. The “Palestinian refugee” project, directed primarily by UNRWA, has unprecedented support from the West. Although the status of “refugee” is not supposed to be hereditary, the UN agencies still label the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of the Arabs who fled in 1948 as “refugees” and funnel billions of dollars in aid to them through mechanisms established specifically for that purpose. That status allows the Palestinian Arabs to preserve indirectly the claims for “right of return” and helps motivate their murderous intention, if unstated by the more savvy spokesmen, to ultimately destroy Israel.

Nowhere in the world is there a project for refugees that even remotely resembles the Ponzi scheme the UN set up for the Palestinian Arabs. Not only does it shovel money to the “refugees,” it also supports a myriad of corrupt – and totally unnecessary – UNRWA employees who perpetuate the hatred of all Jews. It is entirely possible that only the final collapse of the European economy can stop the corruption, because cold facts and logic clearly cannot stop this ingrained corruption.

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The position of the Western countries regarding the Palestinian issue is perplexing. Throughout modern history, millions of refugees, including the Jews who survived the Holocaust or were expelled from the Arab countries, have adapted and integrated into the societies of their new countries without UN involvement. Catastrophes continue to occur around the world, refugees are slaughtered on a daily basis in terrorist attacks and hate crimes, women are raped and children flee and starve to death while the UN deals with the Palestinians. UN clerks devote their time to the descendants of the Arab refugees of 1948, although many of them have long since established themselves, unlike other refugees (in Africa, for example), in the Arab states among people with whom they share a culture, religion, language and history.

Western countries perpetuate the problem of the Palestinian Arab refugees deliberately. Their motive is not love of the Palestinians Arab, but rather to prevent the issue from being resolved. On the other hand, the Arab states do not want the Palestinian Arab refugees anywhere near them, and until the Arab Spring they used the “liberation of Palestine” as a rallying cry to close ranks against the common “Zionist enemy.” Recently, however, it has become apparent that the Arab masses no longer accept hatred of Israel as their common denominator and actively work to overthrow the corrupt Arab regimes.

Unfortunately, the leaders of the Arab world, as well as many European Union and other Western leaders have had no real intention of finding genuine solutions within the Arab states for the problems of the Palestinian Arabs.

Instead, they have used the Palestinian Arabs to channel popular anger and unrest and as an excuse to wage campaigns against Israel and to divert popular anger against the ruling elites. Western leaders never admit it, but instead of demanding citizenship for the refugees in the Arab countries where they have settled, they deliberately enforce the status of “Palestinian refugees” and delude the Palestinian Arabs into assuming that they will eventually “return to Palestine.” They know perfectly well that their policies encourage the Palestinian Arabs to cling to the vain hope that with Western support, at some time in the future they will “return” to Israel and destroy it with waves of refugees and mujahideen terrorism.

The West pays the UN and other welfare agencies billions of dollars to keep the Palestinian Arab problem alive, but if they had invested the money in helping the Palestinian Arabs settle in the countries where they have already lived for years as equal, productive citizens, the issue could have long since been taken off the agenda.

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Dr. Reuven Berko has a Ph.D. in Middle East studies and was the adviser on Arab Affairs to the Jerusalem district police. Berko is a commentator on Israeli Arabic TV programs, writes for the Israeli daily newspaper Israel Hayom and is considered one of Israel's top experts on Arab affairs.