This is a fun article from JTA in 1951 describing how useless the UN had been in the Middle East - -and how the Arab enemies of Israel were ...

UNRWA held a pledging conference in New York starting on Thursday. While it managed to get an additional $160 million in funding, it says ...

The PFLP-GC claims that some 23,000 Palestinian Arabs from the Yarmouk camp in Syria have fled to Sweden during the civil war. Yarmouk c...

Once again, the Arab world shows its derision for their Palestinian brethren. And once again, the world ignores blatant discrimination again...

The New York Times mentions the new Lebanese law allowing Palestinian Arabs some new rights to employment - but notes that this supposed im...

UNRWA has again warned that it is running with a large deficit and will be forced to close schools or other programs if it does not get som...

It is always notable when reporters who cover a country ignore a huge story for years. Arabs in Lebanon, who happen to have ancestors who ...

Last week, I saw a video (sent out to the Free Gaza mailing list) of an earnest, self-righteous folksinger, singing his heart out about how ...

From Ha'aretz: The United Nations' relief agency for Palestinian refugees, lashed out Tuesday at the Israel Broadcasting Authority ...

Did you know that there were well over 100,000 Gazans in Jordan with limited rights -  and no easy way to get out? An Arab researcher name...

An astonishingly good piece in the National Post (Canada): Refugees? Canadians, even if their families have lived here for centuries, kno...

Historian Efraim Karsh notices the same poll that I noticed a week ago: What... are we to make of a recent survey for the Al Arabiya tel...

Last month, Mahmoud Abbas spoke to leaders of American Jewish organizations. According to reports , at the meeting he said, " I would n...

Khaled Abu Toameh touches on one of the major themes of this blog: When was the last time the United Nations Security Council met to cond...

I was astonished to find this quote from Mahmoud Abbas in 2005: In an unexpected move, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas call...

PA prime minister Salam Fayyad, in his weekly radio address , spoke about the growing movement to give more rights to Arabs of Palestinian d...

Thousands attended a rally in Beirut on Sunday demanding the government giving Lebanese Palestinians their civil rights. The arguments th...

As UNRWA passed its third year, it was starting to notice that the refugees were not quite cooperating with what UNRWA was trying to accom...

As a follow-up to my post on the 1950 UNRWA report , here are some highlights from the 1951 report. 5. ... In the large towns such as Haif...

UNRWA's first report on its progress, A/1451/Rev.1, is a fascinating document on many levels. It describes its progress in the first si...