The decision of the Trump administration to cut US funding to the agency dedicated to the care of Palestinian ‘refugees’ has provoked lively debate – not least on Maajid Nawaz’s show on LBC radio on 1 September.
Maajid Nawaz
Maajid introduces the show by applauding the Trump decision, yet expressing misgivings that the demise of UNWRA would have a destabilising effect on an already unstable region.
The first caller to join the debate is Salman of Mill Hill (1:21 into the programme). Salman is an Iraqi Jew whose uncle was executed in Basra by Saddam Hussein. He puts the case for the Jewish refugees from Arab countries: where is the fairness, he asks?
At 1:25 Niran from Edgware also rings the show. No other set of refugees in any other conflict had an UNWRA to care for them, she says. The numbers of Palestinian ‘refugees’ will balloon to the point when even UNWRA could not look after them.
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