Yahoo奇摩新聞 以色列與聯合國近東救濟工程處將終止合作 以駐台辦事處：持續提供巴勒斯坦人國際援助
以色列國會11月4日宣布，已通知聯合國，以色列決定與聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）終止關係。對此，駐台北以色列經濟文化辦事處15日發出中英文聲明，希望大眾更進一步了解UNRWA。
你能想像有一個聯合國機構的成立是為了延續一場衝突，而非解決它嗎？你會認為一個聯合國機構明知他們是恐怖份子仍支付薪水是合理的嗎？你會同意向一個組織捐款，這個組織的教師是教導人們殺戮和綁架，並且經錄音證實其員工綁架無辜的人嗎？你覺得恐怖組織的情報部門嵌入在一個聯合國設施內，並且獲得該設施提供的電力和通訊，這樣合理嗎？恐怖份子利用聯合國機構，如學校和醫院嗎？恐怖份子竊取人道援助並利用它來勒索和控制民眾，這樣合理嗎？
這些問題的答案對任何理性的人來說都是相當明確的。然而，無論你信不信，這就是一個名為聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）所存在的狀況。此外，在1948年七支阿拉伯軍隊試圖摧毀新成立的以色列後，70萬名阿拉伯人被迫逃離，卻獲得了完全不同的待遇。聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）的成立，正是為了延續他們的「難民」身份，並且永遠不允許他們正常化生活。
這正是聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）所做的。迄今為止，該機構已經獲得了數百億美元的資金，並且教育數百萬巴勒斯坦後裔，告訴他們不應該在目前居住的地方重建生活。許多人在他們居住的地方，甚至在他們的孩子出生地，遭到剝奪國籍，例如黎巴嫩，不僅無法獲得國籍，還被禁止擁有土地或從事某些職業。即使在像約旦這樣授予他們國籍的地方，他們依然非法擁有難民身份，這與聯合國難民署（UNHCR）的規定相悖。聯合國近東救濟工程處不僅沒有幫助他們安置，反而教育他們回到四代前祖先被迫離開的地方。
不幸的是，聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）在履行其使命上成功地培養數百萬名畢業生，這些人過去76年來一直被教導反對以色列的存在。許多人後來成為恐怖組織的活躍成員。在這方面，沒有任何機構比聯合國近東救濟工程處在加薩的學校做得更成功。
自2007年哈瑪斯接管以來，這裡的教師工會由哈瑪斯控制，且許多教師都是哈瑪斯恐怖組織的領導人。或者在黎巴嫩，當時哈瑪斯的領袖負責教育3萬9000名兒童，而聯合國拒絕解雇他。以色列曾多次向聯合國提供證據，但大多數證據完全被忽視。
本月，以色列國會絕大多數議員表示：已經夠了。以色列將不再與聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）合作。這項立法賦予政府90天的時間來做出必要安排，確保人道援助透過其他聯合國機構和非政府組織抵達需要幫助的巴勒斯坦人手上。這些巴勒斯坦人被UNRWA當作棋子推動政治目標。以色列會持續對這些巴勒斯坦人民提供國際援助。我們將繼續遵守國際法，但我們不會同意繼續與致力於消滅以色列國的UNRWA合作。所有希望緩解中東衝突的人，都應該與聯合國近東救濟工程處（UNRWA）劃清界線——這是推動和平與穩定的唯一途徑。
Would you find it conceivable that an entire UN agency was created to perpetuate a conflict rather than solve it? Would it sound reasonable to you that a UN agency would knowingly pay salaries to terrorists? Would you agree to donate money to an organization whose teachers educate to kill and abduct people and whose employees are recorded abducting innocent people? Does it sound reasonable that the intelligence branch of a terrorist organization is embedded under a UN facility that feeds it with electricity and communications? That terrorists use UN institutions like schools and hospitals? That terrorists steal humanitarian assistance and use it to extort and control the population?
The answer to these questions is pretty clear to any reasonable person. However, believe it or not, this is the reality with an organization called the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). 700 thousand Arabs who had to flee following the attempt of seven Arab armies to destroy the newly established Israel in 1948 received a completely different treatment. UNRWA was formed to perpetuate their status as “refugees” and never allow them to normalize their lives.
That’s exactly what UNRWA is doing. With tens of billions of dollars so far in financing, it educates millions of Palestinian descendants that they shouldn’t rebuild their lives in the places they reside. Many of them were denied citizenship in the places they live in and where their children were born, like in Lebanon, for example, where they are denied not only citizenship but also banned from owning land or from practicing certain professions. And even in those places where citizenship was granted to them, like in Jordan, they are still illegally entitled to refugee status which contradicts the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) rules. Instead of helping people to settle in, it educates them to go back to the places their ancestors had to leave four generations ago.
Unfortunately, UNRWA has been “successful” in fulfilling its mandate to the extent that millions of graduates from its schools have been taught to object to Israel’s existence for the last 76 years. Many of them became active members of terrorist organizations. No institution has been doing that “better” than the UNRWA schools in Gaza, where Hamas took over in 2007, where the teachers’ union is controlled by Hamas and many of its teachers are leaders in the Hamas terrorist organization. Or, in Lebanon, where the leader of Hamas was in charge of educating 39,000 children, and the UN refused to fire him. Israel has presented multiple evidence to the UN on many occasions. Most of it was completely ignored.
This month, the overwhelming majority of the Israeli parliament said: Enough is enough. Israel will no longer cooperate with UNRWA. The legislation gives the government 90 days to make necessary arrangements to ensure humanitarian assistance to needy Palestinians — cynically used as pawns to advance political goals — are extended through other UN agencies and NGOs. Israel will continue to facilitate international assistance to this Palestinian population. We will continue to abide by international law, but we will not agree to continue to cooperate with UNRWA that acts to eradicate the State of Israel. All those interested in de-escalating the conflict in the Middle East, should dissociate themselves from UNRWA – this is the only way to advance peace and stability.
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