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Trump Should Release Secret Report on the True Number of Palestinian Refugees

by Clifford Smith
Washington Examiner
August 12, 2018

https://www.meforum.org/articles/2018/trump-should-release-secret-report-on-the-true-num

The Trump administration is supposedly considering declassifying a State Department report that tallies up the true number of Palestinian refugees.
 
If Trump does this, the repercussions could go a long way to settling the Arab-Israeli conflict.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, or UNRWA, classifies refugees unlike any other organization in the world, and in a way that contradicts common sense. Whereas the number of refugees from the original 1948 Arab-Israeli war would likely number in the tens of thousands, the UNRWA also counts people generations removed from the conflict, many of whom are citizens of new countries, in addition to everyone living in their internationally recognized homes of Gaza and the West Bank.
 
This politically motivated definition raises the number of "refugees" to an estimated 5.3 million. And that number is used by Palestinians to claim a "right of return" to Israel for a number greater than half of Israel's entire population.
 
Until today, there has been no official acknowledgment of the true number of refugees. Governments and international organizations around the world instead pay lip service to UNRWA's fiction that the number of refugees has expanded many times over since the 1948 war.
 
This will change if the Trump administration releases the classified report.
 
The origin of the report goes back to 2012, when the Middle East Forum's Washington Project approached then-Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Ill. with the idea that America should adopt a policy that only recognized as refugees those who would fit its own legal definition of a refugee. Kirk proposed sweeping language to appropriations legislation to that effect, but President Barack Obama's State Department objected that this would be prejudicial to Israeli-Palestinian negotiations. Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides wrote that the provision "would be viewed around the world as the United States acting to prejudge and determine the outcome of this sensitive issue." Largely as a result, Kirk's original language was not adopted.
 
But Kirk did manage to get compromise language, requiring the State Department to issue a report on the issue of the true definition, passed as part of the fiscal 2015 appropriations legislation. But then no one heard nothing more about the report for over a year. Kirk assumed the State Department had simply ignored the committee's direction.
 
But as it turns out, that wasn't so. The Middle East Forum learned that the report had, in fact, been written. Committee staffers in the House of Representatives were even informed of its existence. But instead of making it public, the clear intent of the legislation, the State Department classified it. Moreover, it failed to inform Kirk's office, which had the largest stake in the report, or relevant Senate committee staffers that it had been completed.
 
Upon learning this, Kirk moved in 2016 to pass another provision forcing the State Department either to produce a nonclassified version of the report, or to inform the Committee why it could not do so. State still chose not to declassify the report.
 
This year, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colo., wrote a letter to President Trump signed by 50 other members of Congress, asking that the report be declassified. Rep. Chris Stewart, R-Utah, viewed the report, and said in a subsequent interview that "there's no reason in the world it's classified."
 
The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies also called for declassification, as did Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, saying "The American people deserve to see this reported State Department assessment, so Congress and the administration can have a transparent and productive debate about America's role in the organization."
 
In July, the American Center for Law and Justice obtained a version of the report via a Freedom of Information Act request and a subsequent lawsuit. Unfortunately, it was heavily redacted and omits the most crucial information — the true number of refugees. A recent story citing State Department sources pins the total at just 20,000 refugees, nowhere near the 5.3 million that UNRWA claims and the State Department has previously adopted. The public won't know for sure unless the Trump administration finally releases an unredacted version of the report.
 
Hopefully, the Trump Administration will release this report. Telling the truth about the number of refugees, rather than the fictional number provided by UNRWA, would be a big step to unraveling expansive "right of return" claims, ending a threat to Israel's existence.
 
Cliff Smith is Washington project director for the Middle East Forum.

 

Related Topics:  Arab-Israel conflict & diplomacy, Israel & Zionism, Palestinians  |  Clifford Smith

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Omarosa: A Mole in the White House?

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Why would Omarosa bring a secret recording device into the High Security Situation Room of the White House if not to spy on the Trump Administration?  

How many such tapes did she make? Was she purposefully trying to trap Trump into making a racial slur?

While on the subject of the horrendous crime of using the N_____ word....Here is some food for thought: let's distract for a moment...

How many blacks use the N___ word themselves to each other. 

Does that make such blacks racists? 

How many blacks call whites derogatory names like White Supremacist racists. Does that make them Black racists.

And what if 

someone actually used the N___ word regularly while at the same time saw a black homeless kid with  a severe toothache, paid his dental bills, sent the homeless black kid to college, helped him find a good paying job and treated him as a foster son 

compared to ....

someone who was careful never to use the N___ word yet saw the same homeless  black kid with the toothache rummaging through the garbage for food and ignored him. 

Or yet another Black or White person who go into denial that there are black homeless kids rummaging in the garbage since to do so admits that blacks are disadvantaged and poverty stricken and that would be racist to think of Blacks in such a racist way.

Who would you call the racist?  The guy who used the N____ word?

Sometimes actions speaks louder than words.

Apparently John Kelly accused Amarosa, in this illegal secret recording, of actions that questioned her integrity justifying her dismissal. 

In hindsight Amarosa's secret recordings in a high security room prove he was justified in his accusations. .

Her dismissal was too merciful not the opposite...

If she was a mole put there to begin with, to discredit Trump, she lost 2 jobs with this dismissal.. 

Her job with Trump and her job with the Deep State. Once dismissed, her mole job ended as well.

If she only had one job, the one working under John Kelly, if she was guilty of misconduct, she should have been relieved to have been dismissed without a public disclosure of her misconduct nor  legal action taken against her with her reputation in tact even if she did lose this job. She would have been given a 2nd chance elsewhere.

Obviously though she does not admit to any wrongdoing whatsoever including her recording secretly in a high security room.

However, if her primary job, as a mole ended, that would explain the timing  and the release of her book Unhinged. She was literally unHinged so now her true colors of being anti Trump could shine.

Unhinged is the fruit of her labor working as a mole for oppositional research against Trump. 

Who invested in this book? That might give us a clue as per who "employed" her to be a mole? 

All this is speculation.

So measure for measure now is the time to reexamine the circumstances that led to her dismissal in the first place. She herself welcomes disclosure of her HR records.

In the recording, Kelly purportedly calls for Manigault-Newman's "friendly departure" from the administration without any "difficulty in the future relative to your reputation." According to the tape, Kelly continued by saying that things could get "ugly" for her, and that she was "open to some legal action" for conduct that would merit a court martial if she were in the military.

That comment was a "very obvious ... threat," Manigault-Newman told NBC's "Meet the Press." She said she had recorded the conversation because otherwise no one would believe her.

"We've got to talk to you about leaving the White House," Kelly apparently says in the tape. "It's come to my attention over the last few months that there's been some pretty, in my opinion, significant integrity issues related to you and the use of government vehicles and some other issues."

John Kelly offered a friendly departure. Even if she was guilty of misconduct he wanted to avoid conflict.

Well she has just stirred up conflict! It is clear she was, and is, not to be trusted. 

Time now to reevaluate and bring legal actions against her for any misconduct that John Kelly suggested on the secret recordings plus the secret recording themselves which are clear breaches of security. I would also investigate if she has ties to the Democrats, the former Obama Administration or Clinton Administration and their oppositional research team now that we know she was not adverse to spying.

I am glad actually that she taped the conversation since to me it vindicates Kelly and incriminates her. Others more expert than I feel the same.

Why Omarosa's attack on Kelly could backfire





In the tape, it was clear to me Kelly wasn't threatening. 

He was giving her notice that she was being dismissed based on her misconduct. 

Now, at her own undoing, she shows that she doesn't deserve a second chance. 

Secretly recording sessions illegally in the White House in the Situation Room proves that she was either a mole trying to spy on the Trump Administration or is not to be trusted and without integrity as charged or is paranoid that everyone is out with daggers ready to stab her and she has to protect herself. A very hostile working  environment indeed. Wasn't she happy to leave?

My gut feeling is that she was a mole planted there to trap Trump from the outset.

Traitorous misconduct must be addressed in kind. With no mercy. Otherwise, given the opportunity the traitors will lay low and rise again to attack with a vengeance, seeing mercy and kindness extended to them merely as a sign of weakness of their enemy. 


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