The United Nations Relief and Works Agency —the group that administers Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza—has admitted to hiring members of the terrorist group Hamas to help in its efforts

National Review, Oct 25, 2004

* The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)--the group that administers Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza--has admitted to hiring members of the terrorist group Hamas to help in its efforts. UNRWA's commissioner general, Peter Hansen, defended the organization's hiring practices as nondiscriminatory: "We do not ...

exclude people from one persuasion as against another," he said, and then continued, "We demand of our staff, whatever their political persuasion is, that they behave in accordance with U.N. standards and norms for neutrality." Given that at the U.N. "neutrality" means attacking Israel for alleged abuses while giving terrorists and their sponsors a pass, it's no surprise to find Hamas members on the payroll. But remember who's financing this: The U.S. has given UNRWA $2.5 billion in taxpayer dollars since 1950, and over $100 million in the last four years alone. Remember too that UNRWA property (e.g., ambulances) has been used in the past for terrorist activity, including the kidnap of Israeli soldiers and the transport of armed Palestinians. There is no reason for the U.S., or any other free country, to support an organization that is complicit in terror, and that, under the guise of helping people, abets their ongoing self-destruction.