@Akshay @40Years But UNRWA's role in the Israel/Palestine conflict over decades has been absolutely catastrophic. It was designed, in contradistinction to UNHCR and most other refugee-concerned organizations to freeze and escalate the conflict over time rather than to let it, however justly or unjustly, resolve and fade. It has done so. It and those who (decades ago!) framed it bear no small share of responsibility for what is happening now. 2/
@Akshay @40Years Questions of how connected UNRWA employees or facilities are to particular acts of resistance or terrorism are I think secondary. Structurally, UNRWA to function in the role it has taken on necessarily works under terms set by the de facto governing authority, and given its role in education, that also is problematic. UNRWA was designed to be a party to the conflict, not something apart from it. There are bloody hands to go 'round, but the letters "UN" cannot absolve UNRWA. /fin