Så ser palestinierna på UNRWA

Palestinian Authority again admits UNRWA is political

The Palestinian Authority has again admitted—three times in two weeks—that UNRWA is all about politics as it seeks to preserve the organization so it can keep alive the demand to flood Israel with "returning refugees."

Last month, a column in the official PA daily defined what it views as the very mandate of UNRWA:

"The Fatah Revolutionary Council… emphasized… that all the patriots must… defend UNRWA and its mandate because it is a testimony to the Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and the sanctity of the refugees' right of return."

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 11, 2026]

This is the PA admitting, openly, that the central value of UNRWA is ideological and political. It is why the PA frames challenges to UNRWA as an Israeli plot to erase the refugee issue and the dream of "return" into Israel. In the following statement by a PA spokesman on official PA TV, the claim is taken a step further and tied directly to Israel's sovereignty and to Jerusalem, again showing clearly that this is not actually a humanitarian issue for the PA but a political one, with the mission of UNRWA being to ultimately undo Israel through "return."

PA Jerusalem District Spokesman Ma'arouf Al-Rifai: "Since Oct. 7, [2023], Israel has started a campaign of incitement against UNRWA to eliminate the refugee issue, to eliminate what we Palestinians are dreaming of, namely the right of return and compensation. Israel is attempting to impose full sovereignty over Jerusalem and annex it to the cities of the occupation (i.e., Israel) like any city that was occupied in 1948."

[Official PA TV News, Jan. 20, 2026]

Note that the PA spokesman reiterated what Palestinian Media Watch has stressed many times, which is that the PA sees all of Israel as "occupied in 1948."

A senior PLO official also made a similar admission on official PA radio several days later:...

Jämförelse mellan YLE:s och Jerusalem Posts rapportering

 Israeliska armen gav i onsdags en uppskattning om hur många invånare i Gaza som dött i kriget.

Här under en liten jämförelse av hur YLE och Jerusalem Post rapporterade om händelsen.

Israelin armeija tunnustaa Gazan terveysministeriön ilmoittamat uhriluvut

Israelilaiset mediat, muun muassa The Times of Israel ja Haaretz uutisoivat, että Israelin armeija hyväksyy Gazan terveysministeriön uhriluvun: lokakuussa 2023 alkaneessa sodassa on kuollut ainakin 71 000 gazalaista.

Tarkka luku on nyt 71 667 kuollutta. Luvussa ei ole mukana mm. nälkään tai puutteellisen terveydenhoidon takia kuolleita. Myös kadonneita ei ole luvussa.

Armeija analysoi nyt, kuinka suuri osa kuolleista on Hamas-järjestön asemiehiä.

YK, avustusjärjestöt ja mediat ovat tähänkin asti pitäneet Gazan terveysministeriön uhrilukua luotettavana, Israel on väittänyt sitä epäluotettavaksi.

IDF confirms some 70,000 Gazans died in Israel-Hamas war, none from starvation

The IDF, for the first time on Wednesday, confirmed that approximately 70,000 Gazans were killed during the Israel-Hamas War, while disputing the percentage of civilian deaths claimed by the UN and declaring that no healthy persons died from starvation.

While various international groups have claimed that the overwhelming majority of those who died were civilians, the IDF continues to contest that number and has said that around 25,000 were Hamas terrorists. Further, the IDF has presented evidence that, through early 2024 – the period when Hamas was firing large daily rocket salvos – around 13% of their rockets were misfires, leading to the killing of many Palestinians.

There have also been other periods of time where Hamas executed large numbers of Palestinians whom it viewed as political opponents or civilians whom it was trying to prevent from fleeing an area that the IDF said needed to be evacuated. While the IDF said on Thursday that it is working on a fuller evaluation of the breakdown of civilians to combatants and estimates of those killed by Hamas, no Israeli official has provided a set estimate on that to date...

Får en kristen glädjas åt och stöda judarnas återkomst till sitt hemland?

 Frågan kan verka absurd men det finns de som anser att så får man inte göra.

Jerusalem's Armenian church leaders say Christian Zionism is 'damaging,' warn of harm to unity

The Armenian Apostolic Patriarchate of Jerusalem, in a Saturday statement claiming to be from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in the Holy Land, condemned Christian Zionism as a “damaging” ideology.

ICEJ challenges church leaders’ claim that Christian Zionism is 'damaging ideology'

ICEJ Response to Patriarchs’ Statement denouncing Christian Zionism

The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem takes issue with the recent Statement from the Patriarchs and Heads of Churches in Jerusalem on Unity and Representation of the Christian Communities in the Holy Land (January 17, 2026) concerning its charge that Christian Zionism is among the “damaging ideologies” being advanced by unnamed local individuals to “mislead the public, sow confusion, and harm the unity of our flock.”

As Christians, we adhere to a Zionism that is purely biblical in origin, belief, scope and practice – reflecting our sincere faith convictions and not shifting political objectives. The promised restoration of Israel in modern times enjoys ample biblical credentials in both the Old and New Testaments. The Jewish return to the Land of Israel both reflects and affirms the faithful nature and character of God to always keep His sworn covenant promises, thereby strengthening the Christian faith rather than damaging or undermining it...

…The respected Catholic prelate Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn, Archbishop of Vienna, once expressed his support for Biblical Zionism, maintaining that it was doctrinally important for Christians to recognize the Jewish people's deep connection to their ancestral homeland, and adding that Christians should rejoice in the Jewish return to the Land of Israel as a fulfilment of biblical prophecy. We could not agree more....

Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Nicolas Maduro, och Hugo Chavez hjältar och förebilder för palestinska myndigheten

 Top Palestinian Authority honors given to Putin, Xi Jinping, Maduro, and Chavez: "Star of Palestine" to enemies of the West

The Palestinian Authority's highest decoration, known as the Star of Palestine, is not awarded to just anyone. Outside of Arab heads of state, this award has been given by the PA only to its closest ideological allies – all notorious dictators in the anti-Western axis: Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Nicolas Maduro, and Hugo Chavez. The award—a sign of the PA's deep ideological affinity with China, Russia, and Venezuela—has not been given by the PA to any leader of a Western democracy.

Israel kommer att försvinna, säger palestinska myndigheten

 Bara en påminnelse om vad den "moderata" palestinska myndigheten står för: (från PMW)

“Israel is doomed to perish” – Palestinian Authority admits its goal

Ephraim D. Tepler and Itamar Marcus|Jan 18

The Palestinian Authority consistently indoctrinates Palestinians to believe that Israel's demise is inevitable and is an inherent form of justice. This message is delivered by senior PA leaders and is reinforced repeatedly across official PA media, including news programs, children's education, political commentary, poetry, and international forums broadcast to the Palestinian public.

This doctrine has been articulated again recently by Abbas Zaki, a senior Fatah leader and member of the Central Committee, the PA's ruling party:

Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki: "In the end, the winner is the one who remains on the land... and those who will remain are the ones with the idea, the idea that says there is no escaping the fact that this land will be liberated, and that the land of peace cannot be based on revenge. Israel is doomed to perish."

[Arabi 21, London-based Arab news website, Jan. 9, 2026]

Zaki's statement presents Israel as a temporary presence and Palestinians as the enduring owners of Israel's land, so that justice will ensure Israel's disappearance. This is a foundational belief promoted systematically by the PA.

PA/Fatah education teaches children to see Israel as temporary:

"Palestine fell under the Zionist occupation [in 1948], which continues today… The occupation will cease to exist just as what was before it ceased to exist..."

"All of the invaders were defeated, and Palestine returned to be free and Arab."

"[Israel] the evil occupation state… this artificial state… It is artificial because it is foreign..."

"The liberation of Palestine will only be achieved through armed struggle."

"The Zionist invaders will go to the garbage can of history."

"Palestine will be liberated and purified from the occupation's (i.e., Israel's) defilement.

"Palestine is destined for full liberation (i.e., all of Israel)… from the yoke of Zionist colonialism"

"Algeria's experience [of the French leaving] assures that the Jewish settlers in Palestine will disappear in the end."

[Fatah's Waed Magazine for children ages 6-15]

On official PA television, Israel's demise is conveyed as fact. PA TV narrators repeatedly describe Jewish presence as a transient colonial episode destined to end, with this specific script reiterated every two years on average:...

Intervju med Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein

 Intressant intervju som behandlar flera aktuella saker i det israeliska samhället!

Leading Religious Zionist rabbi: Extremist settler violence must be stopped from the pulpit

Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein, co-head of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the West Bank settlement of Alon Shvut, discusses the challenges facing his community and the country as a whole

- ...Now, if you ask me what I think the Torah wants from us, the fact that I’m in hesder says it all, and I obviously do not accept their attacks upon the ability to both learn [Torah] and serve [in the army], or to observe mitzvot in the army.

-... In recent times, the general public has often heard about the Religious Zionist community because of the hilltop youth and the violence connected to it. What is your perspective?

The violence that is going on is horrible and is morally and ethically wrong. We can debate exactly where the line between violence and self-defense runs, but there is no doubt whatsoever that a lot of [what is happening] is violence.

...   What is needed for the future of Israel?

We must reduce the polarization in society. There needs to be much more dialogue, much more willingness to compromise, also internally. We are now reading the Book of Genesis, and the main message is that you can overcome external threats, but internal divisions send you to exile.

FN om Israel 2025

FN totalt opålitlig när det gäller Israel! 

From 2015 through 2024, the UN General Assembly has adopted 173 resolutions against Israel and 80 against other countries. For texts and voting sheets, see the UN Watch Database, which will be updated to include the 2025 UNGA resolutions after they are published by the UN in January 2026.

The UN Watch Database also documents that since 2006, the UN Human Rights Council has adopted 112 resolutions against Israel, 45 against Syria, 16 against Iran, 11 against Russia, and 4 against Venezuela.

The 2025 UNGA Resolutions: 16 on Israel vs. 12 on Rest of World (UN Watch)