WTH is Wrong with UNRWA? Jonathan Schanzer Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 8 February 2024
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Media outlets have just begun to report on the rot of the United Nations Relief Works Agency – but the issue goes much farther back than October 7th, and the consequences will extend long past today. The top lines are that the Western-funded UN agency taught antisemitic propaganda in Palestinian territories for years; funded Hamas endeavors leading up to and including October 7; and has actually perpetuated the victimhood of Palestinians. To address the future of Israel-Palestine, one thing is clear: external “aid” cannot be funding and teaching extremism and terrorism.
P.S.: For more UNRWA background, listen to our episode on the topic with Brett Schaefer.
Dr. Jonathan Schanzer is the senior vice president for research at FDD. He previously worked as a terrorism finance analyst at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he followed and froze the funding of Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Jonathan has held previous think tank research positions at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Middle East Forum. He has written hundreds of articles on the Middle East and U.S. national security. His most recent book is Gaza Conflict 2021: Hamas, Israel and Eleven Days of War (FDD Press 2021).
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
| 0:03.1 | If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share. Thanks for listening. Here's our show. What the hell's going on? What the hell is going on? What the hell is going on? I don't know what the hell he's talking about. You don't have to know what the hell is on it. What hell's the matter with these guys? We don't know what's going on. Hotels gone on. |
| 0:01.0 | Who in God's name knows what it's all about. |
| 0:29.1 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pleckon. |
| 0:30.7 | And I'm Mark Tiesin. |
| 0:31.8 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.5 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:35.8 | Mark, what the hell now? What the hell is going on as Mark, what the hell now? |
| 0:38.1 | What the hell is going on as we're talking about UNRWA. |
| 0:40.6 | And for our listeners, Danny, tell us what UNRSA stands for. |
| 0:44.3 | UNRWA is the United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA. |
| 0:53.1 | So sounds like a great organization, doesn't it? |
| 0:55.7 | Helping refugees, right? |
| 0:57.2 | It's a good thing. |
| 0:58.6 | Well, not so much. |
| 1:00.1 | This has become known to millions of Americans now because Israel released intelligence |
| 1:07.0 | showing that at least a dozen members of UNRWA, UNRSAF |
| 1:11.9 | from Gaza, participated in the October 7 massacres of Jews where they crossed over and killed |
| 1:17.7 | and massacred and raped and burned. |
| 1:20.6 | And gosh, I don't even we were just talking before we went on the air about the videos |
| 1:23.9 | of this and whether or not to see them and you chose not to see them. |
| 1:27.1 | And I have, I've chosen not to either them and you chose not to see them and I have |
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