Palestinians promote hatred, Israel promotes coexistence

 “The gangsters behind the BDS [movement] are causing a lot of damage to the Palestinians,” said Eid in an interview. “I want to raise awareness among the U.S. judicial system about how much damage they are causing. If they poured all of the money they are spending on boycotts into building factories and creating jobs in the West Bank and Gaza, it would go a long way to truly helping Palestinians.”  (New York Post)

Reprinted from Dailyalert.org, November 18, 2021

• Palestinian Human Rights Activist Sues over Ben and Jerry’s Boycott, Saying It Promotes Hatred – Isabel Vincent
  Palestinian human rights activist Bassem Eid filed a complaint with New York state’s Division of Human Rights last month against Conopco Inc., the U.S. division of Unilever that owns Ben & Jerry’s, charging that its boycott in the West Bank is “counterproductive to peace and creates only more hatred, enmity and polarization.”
  Eid said the boycott will have an adverse effect on the people it is trying to help. “I, as a Palestinian, as well as many of my friends, family and other Palestinians, are regular shoppers at the Gush Etzion commercial center” in the West Bank. “This shopping area is the true realization of coexistence, as both Jews and Muslims from both Israel and the Palestinian-controlled territories…work and shop here.”
  “The gangsters behind the BDS [movement] are causing a lot of damage to the Palestinians,” said Eid in an interview. “I want to raise awareness among the U.S. judicial system about how much damage they are causing. If they poured all of the money they are spending on boycotts into building factories and creating jobs in the West Bank and Gaza, it would go a long way to truly helping Palestinians.”  (New York Post)
• UNRWA Is a Nursery for Growing Palestinian Refugees – Itamar Marcus
  Is funding UNRWA good for the Palestinians? Even if UNRWA fixed its schoolbooks and guaranteed that UNRWA schools will no longer hide terror tunnels, it will still remain possibly the most human rights abusing institution funded by the international community.
  Prior to the Trump administration, the U.S. was the largest donor to UNRWA. During the Obama administration, the U.S. gave UNRWA over $2 billion. During those years, the number of refugees increased by 700,000. The U.S. investment did not rehabilitate even one refugee. Moreover, the core UNRWA budget since Obama’s first year has risen from $545 million to $806 million today.
  By refusing to resettle the original refugees, UNRWA turned a limited problem into permanent misery, including for the 5.5 million people who were born refugees. UNRWA is the real Palestinian Nakba (catastrophe). For all other refugees, the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has helped resettle over 50 million refugees in the same period that UNRWA didn’t resettle even one. UNRWA imposed refugee status on millions of children, some born 72 years ago, trampling their right to be born into freedom.
  Funding UNRWA is not only a waste of limited international resources but is funding an organization that is fundamentally a human rights abuser. It is not intended to help the refugees but to preserve them as refugees serving the PA’s goals. The UNRWA infrastructure must be closed and its administration transferred to UNHCR – free of the dictates of the PA. UNHCR will be tasked with solving the problem instead of perpetuating the problem. UNHCR will use its billions to train them, create jobs and give them homes in the countries where they were born and lived their entire lives. Resettling these people is a human rights imperative. (Jerusalem Post)
• UNRWA Doesn’t Need More Funding, It Needs to Be Shut Down – Editorial
  There has been a drop in countries funding the UN Palestinian refugee organization UNRWA recently, in large part following reports which show where the money is going. The textbooks and education system in UNRWA-run schools support terrorism and the cult of martyrdom. Hamas has created terror tunnels and weapons stores under UNRWA schools in Gaza, using the children as human shields.
  The Palestinians have been granted perpetual refugee status. According to UNRWA, someone born this week can be considered a refugee of a war that occurred more than seven decades ago. UNRWA has created a bigger refugee problem and, at the same time, perpetuated the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. (Jerusalem Post)
• Israel, Jordan and UAE to Sign Deal for Huge Solar Farm – Barak Ravid (Axios)
  Israel, Jordan and the UAE are set to sign a deal on Monday in Dubai, pushed along by U.S. climate envoy John Kerry, to build a massive solar farm in the Jordanian desert, Israeli officials said.
  The UAE-funded solar farm will provide energy mainly to Israel, which will build a desalination plant on its Mediterranean coast to provide water to Jordan.