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Back to topRefugees Unto the Third Generation: Un Aid to Palestinians (Contemporary Issues in the Middle East) (Hardcover)
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Description
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency was originally established in 1950 as a temporary, nonpolitical response to the Palestinian refugee crisis. The forty-four-year-old agency has become a fixture in the drama of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Designed to solve refugee problems through massive Jordan Valley water development
projects, today UNRWA runs schools, health clinics for millions, and relief programs for the poorest refugees in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.
About the Author
Benjamin Schiff is professor of politics at Oberlin College and the author of International Nuclear Technology Transfer and A Desperate Society: The Afrikaners after Apartheid (with June Goodwin). He interviewed more than one hundred present and past agency officials worldwide, and was the first person to be given access to UNRWA's main archives at their headquarters in Vienna.