The Palestinians say that they regard UNRWA as a means to destroy Israel, not as an aid organization. (@UNRWA doesn’t disagree.)

Ahmed Majdalani is a member of the PLO’s Executive Committee and secretary-general of the Palestinian Popular Struggle Front. He met with UNRWA Commissioner-General Philip Lazzarini, ostensibly to support UNRWA’s efforts to line up more donors to keep the agency going.

But Majdalani doesn’t care about UNRWA helping people it calls “refugees.” To him, and to Palestinian leaders as a whole, it serves an entirely different purpose: to help destroy the Jewish state.

According to the article, he told Lazzarini that he supports UNRWA  not as an institution that provides services to Palestinian refugees, but because it represents a political basis for the “right of return”: of millions of Palestinians to flood Israel and turn it into another Arab state.

To help achieve this, Majdalani said he opposed the US insisting that UNRWA teach that Israel has the right to exist and not teach incitement. He strenuously opposes the UNRWA’s agreement with the US  to ensure objectivity as a condition for funding, saying, “We consider this agreement to carry risks that target and threaten the refugee issue, in order to undermine and liquidate it. It also redefines the refugee, and this is considered a dangerous matter for us in the Palestine Liberation Organization.”

He is not only speaking for himself, but for the PLO altogether.

UNRWA pretends to be a non-political, objective organization, but of course it isn’t. It says it must exist until there is a resolution to the “refugee” issue, and since the Palestinians won’t accept any resolution short of destroying Israel, UNRWA essentially agrees with Majdalani and the PLO.

In the meeting, Lazzarini apparently didn’t say a word of disagreement to Majdalani’s characterization of the agency, instead praising Majdalani for his words supporting UNRWA’s goals of obtaining more funds. 

His silence is admission. UNRWA will not say it out loud, but it regards itself as a crucial tool in the eventual destruction of Israel as well.