Truly astonishing ignorance from Luke Baker of Reuters (@LukeReuters) - by Elder of Ziyon

...Since 1948, Israel is the only country in the Middle East to treat Palestinian refugees from 1948 as normal human beings and not as cannon fodder. This is a story that Reuters' Middle East bureau has somehow missed for nearly 70 years.

Elder of Ziyon..
11 June '17..





One would assume that the bureau chief of a major wire news service dedicated to writing about Israel who has been in the region for years would have the slightest idea of what's going on.

If UN agency for Palestinian refugees were dismantled, would Israel take responsibility for those under occupation? https://t.co/P8aYrlEid9

— Luke Baker (@LukeReuters) June 11, 2017

Virtually all of the people UNRWA calls "Palestine refugees" live under PA control. Why should Israel have to take responsibility for people who claim to be refugees yet who have lived in "Palestine" all along?

Moreover, why doesn't the PA dismantle the camps - today? Why on Earth are humans kept in these camps when they live under PA rule where there is nothing stopping their leaders from building new houses for them?

But it gets worse.

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