Congress Demands State Department Release ‘Game Changer’ Report on Myth of ‘Palestinian’ Refugees

Congress is demanding the State Department release a study that reportedly shows the “Palestinian” people don’t need funds from UNRWA as much as they say they do.

UNRWA monies have come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump’s administration, and cuts have been made that have led to harsh backlash and threats from the likes of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas.

But apparently, the funds aren’t a necessary as the “Palestinian” sympathizers put forth. The whole system that requires millions of dollars of American taxes may be an unnecessary sham.

The Washington Free Beacon has the story:

Congress is pressuring the State Department to release a long classified report on Palestinian refugees that insiders say could change the calculus on how the United States approaches the situation and allocates millions in taxpayer funds to a key United Nations agency, according to sources and a congressional letter obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Dozens of members of Congress have already signed on to an effort to force the release of this State Department publication, which sources say was originally classified by the Obama administration in order to keep the findings secret from the American public and lawmakers.

The Free Beacon first reported on the existence of this report in January, when national security insiders first began pressuring the Trump administration to uphold a U.S. law mandating the report be released in public. The report is said to have been marked classified in order to prevent public disclosure that the number of Palestinian refugees is far smaller than the United Nations claims.

Now, months later, the report still remains classified, prompting the large delegation of congressmen to order the State Department to uphold the law and make the report public, according to a draft letter circulating on Capitol Hill and viewed by the Free Beacon.

The report was described to the Free Beacon as a potential tipping point in the debate over the United Nations Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) and its mission, which has come under increased criticism in Congress for what many claim is the agency’s anti-Israel bias and routine promotion of pro-terrorism doctrines. The United States decided recently to cut taxpayer funding to UNRWA, the chief Palestinian refugee aid organization, as a result of the group’s longstanding anti-Israel bias.

Lawmakers are outraged the refugee report was classified in the first place and are demanding the Trump administration release the information as is required under U.S. law.

“The Obama State Department delivered the mandated report to Congress in classified form despite no apparent national security threat or known historical precedent for classifying such a report,” the delegation of lawmakers write. “We believe this classification was inappropriate and a deliberate attempt to conceal information from American taxpayers. The report should be declassified without further delay.”

While UNRWA provides support to some 5.3 million Palestinians they claim are refugees, the actual number could be closer to 20,000, according to sources familiar with the report. A disclosure of this nature could shift the narrative with UNRWA and lead the United States to consider cutting even more funding to the agency.

Rep. Doug Lamborn (R., Co.), one of the lawmakers leading the declassification effort, told the Free Beacon that Congress must have a complete picture of the Palestinian refugee situation in order to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funds are not being wasted.

“It is critical that Congress investigates the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which operates under the United Nations (UN) using a different definition of a refugee for Palestinians than all other UN refugees around the world,” Lamborn said.

“Americans have sent UNRWA billions of dollars over the years to help bring peace to the region, but instead the agency has perpetuated a victimhood mentality for Palestinians,” Lamborn said. “Releasing this report to the American public is an important first step in recognizing reality in this difficult situation and bringing about much needed reform to UNRWA.”

The United States has provided some one billion dollars to UNRWA over the last four years. The total expenditure is nearly six billion dollars since UNRWA was founded in 1950.

Lawmakers who signed the letter to force declassification are concerned that U.S. taxpayer dollars continue to be wasted on an organization that they believe is operating under a false mandate.

“We are concerned that hard-earned American taxpayer dollars are not being used properly,” the lawmakers write. “Your withholding of funds from UNRWA in January on the condition that they reform was a tremendous first step. American taxpayers deserve to know how their tax dollars are spent on Palestinian refugees and their descendants.”

The original refugee report was legally mandated in 2012 under a congressional spending bill. The original bill instructed the State Department to report to Congress on the actual number of people who receive UNRWA’s refugee services, as well as what their place of residence was during the early conflicts that led to the establishment of Israel in 1948.

In 2015, the Obama administration finally produced the report, but marked it classified in what lawmakers and others believe was an attempt to suppress information revealing the number of actual Palestinian refugees is far lower than UNRWA claims to the public.

E.J Kimball, director of the Israel Victory Project for the Middle East Forum, an organization that advises members of Congress on such matters, told the Free Beacon that declassification of the report could change the debate when it comes to UNRWA and its mandate.

“We, taxpayers, deserve to have our money spent towards resolving conflicts, not perpetuating them,” Kimball said. “The declassification of this report can help bring the Palestinian-Israeli conflict closer to conclusion. President Trump’s leadership on Jerusalem has started this process. Ending the UNRWA mythology of 5.3 million ‘refugees’ will continue moving towards that end.”

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Alleged-Comment

6 years ago

THIS is why we are in phony debt. This is why they must borrow, er print more money, with more interest that can never be repaid. This is why there is going to be war.

All over a sham of phony refugees, that not even Arabs want in their own country, but paid to be a THORN on the side of Israelis over some fake claim their land was stolen when it’s not even mentioned in their beloved Koran.

So we have a lie based on a rumor heard by whisper on what someone thought they said.

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felix1999

6 years ago

We should NOT be funding ANY of them!
It is a sham.

OFF TOPIC but look how we are OPENLY betrayed ->

U.S. CoC President Tom Donohue Preaches To Globalist Wall Street Choir at Summit of Americas…
Posted on April 12, 2018 by sundance

(Trump didn’t go and sent globalist Pence in his place.
Yes Pence is a globalist!)

The United States economy is the Eagle;
the shaft is Wall Street;
the feather is the U.S. middle-class, and the
archer is U.S. Chamber of Commerce President Tom Donohue.

Tom Donohue heads the Chamber of Commerce.

[…] The Chamber has helped lead the fight to protect the status of more than one million people who are at risk of deportation. It makes no sense to send one million talented workers back to their home countries when we don’t have enough labor to get the job done in our own. This includes the young men and women who were brought to our country as children through no fault of their own—known as “the Dreamers”—as well as hundreds of thousands of individuals who are working in the U.S. under temporary protected status.
…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/04/12/u-s-coc-president-tom-donohue-preaches-to-globalist-wall-street-choir-at-summit-of-americas/

The continue to want to flood US with crap and CHEAP labor!

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Mike Kevins

6 years ago

There are so many glaring inconsistencies in that program, where would one start to investigate it? Millions of reported refugees are only 20,000? That is a LOT of wasted money. The lifers at the State Dept. will never give up that report because they are most likely profiting from the program.

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mezcukor

6 years ago

just defund all of theses refugees organization

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Mahou Shoujo

6 years ago

There are very few genuine refugees in Israel, gaza or anywhere else. There are multi generation beggars, bums, thieves and parasites. There is no reason those self described international welfare collectors who call themselves “palestinians” cannot work for a living like everyone else.

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Thomas Faddis

6 years ago

So obama funded islamic jihad terrorism in Multiple ways? Wish They’d HANG the traitor!

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aebe

6 years ago

Seventy years later , ‘palestinians’ have anything other than a demanding and and the word , “gimme” ? Exports , industry… how about tourists , now that the IRA no longer works as a travel agency ? Must be the social fascists fantasy come to life , a hundred percent dependent on their masters and too involved in strife with others to make any trouble for the thieves at the top of the food chain .

Validate your 2nd Amendment Rights….. Carry !

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Suresh

6 years ago

Left/Liberals can only destroy countries like this Left/Liberal utopia http://tinyurl.com/yavxfl4m

…where its Gun Free , govt terrorises citizens and they hunt cats and dogs for food !

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marlene

6 years ago

Almost every year during the Bush administration, shortly after receiving America’s big check, the “palestinian’ received another check from the UN. After Abbas took his share and deposited it overseas,, he used the rest of the money to build an expensive amusement park! “Palestinians” do not go hungry either. Despite this fact, president clinton insisted Israel give the “palestinians their” money, which Israel did, although Israel contested that they owed it to them. These terrorists were raking it in big time, making both Arafat and Abbas mulltimillionaires.

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CHARLES S

6 years ago

“UNRWA monies have come under scrutiny from President Donald Trump’s administration, and cuts have been made that have led to harsh backlash and threats from the likes of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas”. So if fatass Abbas is so concerned then why doesn’t he get off his huge fat ass and give his money to those poor Palestinians…..he can “damn well afford it”. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank has just discovered what every Palestinian child knows — that hundreds of MILLIONS of dollars had been embezzled during the era of Yasser Arafat. Arafat’s most trusted aides, Mohammed Rashid, threatened to expose corruption scandals in the Palestinian Authority.
Rashid served as Arafat’s financial advisor and was given a free hand to handle hundreds of millions of dollars that were poured on the Palestinian Authority and the PLO by US, EU and Arab donors.
Rashid, was not a junior official in the Palestinian Authority. He was an insider, someone who was very close to Arafat and probably the only official who knows where hundreds of millions of
dollars ended up. The Palestinian Authority’s decision to issue an arrest warrant against him does not seem to worry Rashid, who this week demanded a probe into Abbas’s personal fortune, which he estimated at MORE THAN $100 MILLION. So Abbas is saying that Rashid stole hundreds of millions of dollars, while Rashid is accusing the president of embezzling “only” $100 million.

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