This week I saw a video from Noga Arbell, a researcher at the right-wing Kohelet Forum, in which she commented on Israel’s suspicions about a number of UNRWA employees’ involvement in the October 7 attacks.
Her comments included the following: “To win the war, UNRWA needs to be annihilated because UNRWA is the source of the idea. It gives birth to more and more terrorists in all kinds of ways. UNRWA needs to be wiped out immediately – now – or Israel will miss the window of opportunity.”
The idea that Arbell was referring to isn’t exactly UNRWA. The organization represents something much bigger – the ethos of being a Palestinian refugee, or in other words, the right of return for Palestinian refugees. When she wants to annihilate UNRWA, she actually wants to annihilate Palestinian history – to erase it. And now she’s seeing a window of opportunity.
In short, back then the Jews in Israel did everything to expel Palestinians and to prevent them from returning to their homes – all by “helping” the Palestinians to become absorbed in their new places of residence and with Jews settling where they had been living.
The Jews’ problem in the State of Israel is that they think everything is obtainable by force – annihilating UNRWA, annihilating Hamas, dictating the future of the Palestinians, telling them what to forgo and what not to, as well as where to go, who should be their leader and what their identity is. And when these Palestinians don’t toe the line, the Jews decide for them – by force, of course.