Seventy Year Palestinian U.N.-welcoming

Towards a more accurate narrative of the plight of the Palestinian War Refugees

We need a new and more accurate narrative about the role of the United Nations in the Middle East. Frankly, the narrative that holds Israel out as the obstacle to peace is absurd. The reason for this festering situation is the United Nations and the UNWRA, itself. And this was largely a global consensus at the time because the U.S. and Europe wanted to placate the Arab world because of their massive energy reserves. The world was completely willing to sacrifice Israel on the anointed altar of oil - at least until it became a military power in the 1970's.

To begin with, I believe that the U.N. committed to the creation of a Palestinian state back before the 1960's and has doubled down ever since, always to the horrendous detriment of both Israel and the Palestinian war refugees. The U.N. paternalistically decided that since the Arab world wanted nothing to do with the radicalized Palestinians, that they would keep them in detention camps until a state was formed. 

For decades, there has been nowhere in the Arab world in which the Palestinians would not constitute a threat to destabilize their host countries. This has been proven as a bloody certainty in Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. And with the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood through Hamas, the risks to neighboring countries (consider Egypt, for example) have become even greater. Many of those refugees who are not welcome in the Arab world, among their own people, have incredibly been welcomed into Europe, but that is another story.

What the U.N. probably didn't understand clearly enough was that Palestinians and the Arab League, as well as Iran, did not want a separate state alongside Israel. They were committed to, and easily capable of, sabotaging any and every attempt to create a Palestinian state that would agree to accept Israel as a neighbor.. They always demanded ALL of the Palestinian mandate, including Israel. From the 1920’s on, there was never any way that the Arab world would accept Israel as a neighbor unless they were defeated in war after war after war, and unless the United Nations was willing to stand up for peace in the Middle East.

Basically, the creation of a Palestinian nation alongside Israel would necessarily end the Arab and Iranian Jihad against the Jewish state and would force the Palestinians to govern themselves in accordance with international law. Thus, they would have to give up their armed struggle against the Jewish state. That was never going to happen, and 70 years later it obvious it is no closer to happening.

So, what else could the U.N. do about its massive screw-up but to continue oppressing the Palestinian people and blaming it all on Israel. Of course, Iran and the Arab world were delighted at this approach and pushed the U.N. ahead toward their joint goal of keeping the already Jew-hating and radicalized Palestinian refugees at the boiling point. The U.N. took their problem about where to resettle the Palestinians and, unlike any other refugee response in the world, has detained them, stateless, in camps for over 70 years. Of course, when all else fails, blame the Jews.