The Palestinian Arab Refugee Situation Involvement of UNRWA's Money

 Nadene Goldfoot                                      

A Syrian tank at Kibbutz Degania Alef from 1948 has a story.  I was told that it was stopped

by a girl and an old man on the kibbutz.  One author claims that the main reason for the Syrian defeat was the Syrian soldiers' low regard for the Israelis who they believed would not stand and fight against the Arab army.

In 1948, the Palestinian Arabs attacked the newly announced state of Israel about 5 minutes afterwards, which was Israel's War of Independence that actually was started in 1947 and lasted until 1949.  The Arabs had responded to the United Nations  resolution on Palestine, and  the fighting lasted until the signing of the Armistice Agreements in 1948.                                                                              

180,000 Arabs who lived within Israel's borders accepted Israel's invitation to choose peace and become Israeli citizens.  Jews at that time numbered about 600,000.  The Arabs elected 3 Israeli-Arabs to the 1st Knesset.  After postwar problems were resolved, they became freer, more educated and more prosperous than average citizens living in all other Arab countries.  By 2010, Israeli- Arabs numbered over 1,250,000 and continue to elect representatives to the Knesset.  

Today, they make up 20% of Israel's population.                                          

Mansour  is from Maghar,  a Druze-majority mixed town in Israel's Northern District with an area of 19,810 dunams. Maghar was given the status of a local council in 1956. In 2019 it has a population of 22,957. Its population consists of 57% Druze, 23% Christians, and 20% Muslims.  He's one of the Muslims.  

 Mansour Abbas is a leading Palestinian.  Abbas's small United Arab List is the first party in an Israeli government to be drawn from Israel's 21% Arab minority - Palestinian by culture and heritage, but Israeli by citizenship. He split with other Arab politicians who prefer to remain outside government and cast aside differences with Bennett and other right-wingers to tip the scales against Netanyahu.  Abbas, 47, is expected to serve as a deputy minister in the prime minister's office. He aims to negotiate a big increase in government spending in Arab towns and villages.

Back in 1948, between 472,000 and 750,000 Palestinian Arabs left what became Israel, following their leaders' directions.  Their governments had promised them they would be able to return and take over Jewish homes.  The leaders thought this move would destroy the new state.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has operated in Syria since 1950. Since the start of the conflict in 2011, UNRWA has stepped up its operations to ensure the needs of Palestine refugees in the country are met. The Agency is the main provider of humanitarian assistance and basic services to 438,000 Palestine refugees who remain in the country -- 91 per cent of whom live in absolute poverty - and who have been among those worst affected by the conflict.

"As a Palestine refugee, you are already born with a tag that says "displaced", said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. "If you are a Palestine refugee in Syria, then you are at least doubly displaced and most likely living in extreme hardship."

 Marka Camp, one of many-Marka camp was established in 1968 is 10 kilometres northeast of Amman, Jordan.. Many camp residents originally came from the Gaza Strip..  It covers an area of 0.92 square kilometres,  The camp is known locally as ‘Schneller’ after the German rehabilitation centre established in the area before the camp was set up. UNRWA installations in the camp also provide services for the refugees in the camp's surroundings....Marka camp. © 2013 UNRWA Photo by Hannington Muyenje  The camp has 10 UNRWA schools running double-shifts.  One health centre provides primary health services to refugees living in the camp

The UN gave special treatment to Palestinian refugees.  In 1949 they set up UNRWA, an agency exclusively serving the Palestinian refugees.  UNRWA's website reported that the agency "is unique in terms of its longstanding commitment to one group of refugees...and to 4 generations of refugees."

All the world's other refugees are served by one UN agency.  UNHCR, and no other group's descendants are also considered refugees and that was said in 2010.  By 2005, UNRWA was serving 4.3 million Palestinians. 

Palestinian refugee camps were set up in the Territories and neighboring Arab countries following the 1948 Arab-Israel War.  The camps now are small rundown cities that the Arab leadership never improved and the inhabitants and their descendants are still considered as refugees.  Most Arab countries still refuse to integrate them and unfortunately use them as pawns in the propaganda war against Israel. This was the condition in 2010. 

More than 871,000 registered refugees live in the West Bank, around a quarter of whom live in 19 refugee camps. Most of the others live in West Bank towns and villages. Some camps are located next to major towns and others are in rural areas. While the West Bank has the largest number of recognized Palestine refugee camps in the five UNRWA fields, the largest of them, Balata, has a population similar to that of the smallest camp in Gaza.( for more info, see https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank).  
 

 After the PA (Palestine Authority) was established, it governed 38% of the Palestinian refugees but did not use its billions of foreign-aid dollars to improve their living conditions or opportunities.  The Palestinian National Authority is the Fatah-controlled, interim self-government body that exercises partial civil control over the Gaza Strip and West Bank areas "A" and "B", established as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords.

Israel even has contributed money to UNRWA, but has no control over UNRWA policies.  When Israel administered the Territories from 1967 to 1994, its efforts to improve refugee housing were denounced by the PLO terrorists run by Arafat and the UN (UN GA Resolutions 2792 in 1971 and 41/69 in 1986).   

                                                               

Biden quietly ramping up funding to Palestinians; has long said he would reverse freeze put in place by Trump:  Palestinian school children chant slogans and raise the victory gesture over a UN flag during a protest at a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) school, financed by US aid, in the Arroub refugee camp near Hebron in the West Bank on September 5, 2018. (AFP PHOTO / HAZEM BADER)

The United States announced today that it is contributing US $150 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), restoring its role as a decades-long friend and supporter of the UN agency. What agency is making sure where the money goes to, and keeping it from Hamas and Fatah terrorists who will use it on ammunition to buy rockets to use against Israel? I doubt if there is one.   

The % of Palestinian refugee population by Country/Location in 2005 was:

Gaza.....          22%. 

West Bank......16%

Lebanon.....      9%

Syria.....          10 %

Jordan....       .42%.

Jordan's comment was "Since 1948, Arab leaders...have used the Palestine people for selfish political purposes.  This is...criminal"  King Hussein of Jordan, 1960.  

2021 population of Israel was 8,799,290.  It has quickly risen to 9,291,000 this year.

Israel’s population now numbers nearly 9.3 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced Thursday, hours before the end of 2020 and the start of the new year.  According to the CBS, Israel’s population grew by 151,000 people, or 1.7 percent, since last year and now stands at 2.91 million people.There are currently 6.870 million Jews, accounting for 74% of the population, while the 1.956 million Arabs in Israel make up 21% of the population. Another 456,000 people defined as “others” make the remaining 5%.There are now more refugees in the world other than Palestinian refugees, that UNRWA has handled since 1948.                                  

Jordan is one of the countries most affected by the Syrian crisis, now in its eighth year. A country of fewer than 10 million, Jordan hosts more than 750,000 registered refugees. The vast majority are from Syria, but Jordan also hosts tens of thousands of refugees from other countries, including Iraq, Yemen, and Sudan, and many more who are not registered. King Abdullah II's Jordan, a country of fewer than 10 million inhabitants, hosts more than 750,000 registered refugees, of whom upward of 660,000 are from Syria. Tens of thousands of refugees from other countries – mainly Iraq, Yemen, and Sudan – also live in Jordan, as well as more than 2 million Palestinian refugees, most of whom have acquired Jordanian citizenship. Jordan has a long history of welcoming refugees, and it has the second highest number of refugees per capita in the world.

The 10s of millions of refugees from other war-torn areas in the world during this period resettled in other countries, but neighboring Arab states, with the exception of Jordan, would not resettle the Palestinian Arabs despite their shared history, language and religion. Instead, Arab governments confined them in refugee neighborhoods, refused them citizenship and then used their plight as a propaganda weapon against Israel.

View of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90/JNS)

Group raises alarm over UNRWA's anti-Israel incitement within its Jerusalem schools. Perhaps unbeknown to many Israelis is the shocking fact that only 12 minutes from downtown Jerusalem by light rail, a neighborhood exists within the city’s jurisdiction in which Arab children are being taught that they will one day destroy Israel and replace it with a Palestinian state. This hate education is on full display in a new video released earlier this month by the Center for Near East Policy Research titled “UNRWA in Jerusalem: Anatomy of Chaos,” including disturbing footage from inside Jerusalem’s Shuafat neighborhood, which serves as a Palestinian refugee camp under the jurisdiction of UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has operated in Syria since 1950. Since the start of the conflict in 2011, UNRWA has stepped up its operations to ensure the needs of Palestine refugees in the country are met. The Agency is the main provider of humanitarian assistance and basic services to 438,000 Palestine refugees who remain in the country -- 91 per cent of whom live in absolute poverty - and who have been among those worst affected by the conflict. "As a Palestine refugee, you are already born with a tag that says "displaced", said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini. "If you are a Palestine refugee in Syria, then you are at least doubly displaced and most likely living in extreme hardship."

"The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it an open sore, as an affront to the UN and as a weapon against Israel".....Ralph Galloway, former Director of UNRWA, August 1958.

"All the Arab countries want to keep this problem looking like an open wound."...Ana Little-French, regional representative in Cairo for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2003.  

Palestinian refugees in camps are not citizens of the state they live in. Mostly they are not working or receiving education or skills. Probably they are just simmering, believing all the hype against Israel.  They've been born in camps.  The 1948 adults are deceased by now.   A baby born in 1948 is now 73 years old and has spent his whole life in a refugee camp.  

2020 Pledges to UNRWA's Programmes (Cash and In-kind) - TOP 20 Donors as 31 December 2020 In USD  were Germany as the highest, then EU, UK, Sweden, Japan, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia, Norway, CERF (The Central Emergency Response Fund is a humanitarian fund established by the United Nations General Assembly on December 15, 2005 and launched in March 2006.), Canada,  France, Netherlands, Turkey, Italy, Denmark, Spain, Belgium, Finland, Ireland and Australia.  

Resource:

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2015/11/refugees-all-about-them.html

https://www.c4israel.org/news/israel-independent-at-last/?gclid=CjwKCAjwuvmHBhAxEiwAWAYj-KyJmyS1M0ijxKzZETdM_IjHgYbZl3oi5FQwfd7ryrTrF3P2go5B6RoC2xYQAvD_BwE

https://honestreporting.com/land-of-israel-before-1948/?gclid=CjwKCAjwuvmHBhAxEiwAWAYj-KoxeqtauHOrObCZbEqIQUlXdP9YVDsfJ67amRKhHy3xO9snkfJ52BoChKAQAvD_BwE

https://worldpopulationreview.com/countries/israel-population

https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-it-welcomes-in-2021-israels-population-numbers-9291000/

https://www.unrwa.org/newsroom/press-releases/united-states-announces-restoration-us-150-million-support-palestine

https://www.refugeesinternational.org/reports/2018/9/10/out-of-reach-legal-work-still-inaccessible-to-refugees-in-jordan?gclid=CjwKCAjwuvmHBhAxEiwAWAYj-CJcT36pCG3hbLxVInqNO_62AtWDlqWglV8iqW2x8BSTNxX7UzWuIxoCRMUQAvD_BwE

https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-to-send-150-million-to-unrwa-formally-restores-aid-to-the-palestinians/

How Muslims and Christians Have Fared in Israel, the Only Jewish State in the World

Nadene Goldfoot                                                      

Jewish arrivals to Israel that had to be snuck in illegally  from Holocaust death centers were handed a gun and found themselves
fighting for Israel's right to exist that their enemies wouldn't accept in the War of Independence 1947-1949. 

The Jewish state of Israel was declared on May 14, 1948.  Muslims had been fighting against Israel since at least 1929 in sporadic attacks, but were adamantly striking at Jews in 1947 after the League of Nations' decisions for the area.  This fight continued well after declaring statehood.

                                                  Arab Muslims
                                                

Proud to be an Israeli;  Ashraf Sherjan
and I'm proud of him for speaking out.
He stands with Israel.  (see reference below) 
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"Israel, a tiny country, is the only democracy in the Middle East where people of all faiths have full, equal rights," he explains.  "Furthermore, he has never seen an Israeli commit stabbing attacks, car-terror or bombings against Arabs."  

Nevertheless, Jews had asked the Muslims to remain and become part of their new Israel.  By 1971, the Arab population of Muslims numbered 343,900.  They were making their own decisions concerning their religious matters.  Their Muslim leaders were qadis of the Shari'a courts.
Today there are about 1,658,000 Palestinians, mostly Muslims in this count.  209.000 live in East Jerusalem.
                                                                               

Jerusalem;  Muslim and Christian sites as well as our Jewish ones

 Their status was regulated and safeguarded by law.  There were Muslim trusteeship committees who attended to their community's religious and social affairs, and administered to religious endowments (waqf).
                                                                   

At this time in 1971, the Muslims had over 200 clergy who were paid by the state of Israel.  They held regular services in some 90 mosques.  The most important mosques are the el-Aqsa mosque and the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem which are historic.  They also have the great mosque of el-Jazzar in Akko (Acre), and the stately new mosques in Nazareth and in Haifa.

Since 1967's Six Day War, Friday prayers had been broadcast  by the national radio from the principal mosques.  They are also broadcast on loud speakers.

Israeli Muslims are still denied transit through neighboring Arab States to fulfill the 5th pillar of Islam, the pilgrimage to Mecca. Saudi Arabia refuses to take passports from Israel.  To help fellow Muslims, Jordan is stepping in today and issuing temporary Jordanian passports to those wanting to make the Hajj.  "A reported 5,000 Arab-Israelis perform the hajj each year. Saudi Arabia does not recognize Israel, so Jordan issues the visas to make the journey possible." " Israeli Muslims who wanted to travel to Mecca had to go through a third country such as Cyprus until the 1970s, when Saudi Arabia gave them permission to make the hajj via Jordan."
read more: http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.615855


One special group of Muslims are the Circassians, a small group who were brought in by Sultan Abdel Hamid in the 19th century.  They live in the villages of Kafr Kama and Rehaniya in the Galilee.  I had Circassian students in my 9th grade English class (Kita Tet)  in Safed (in the Galilee) , also.  They were well behaved, well mannered and interested students.  Another Muslim group, members of the Ahmadi sect, are from Pakistan living in Kababir near Haifa.  In 1971 there were 700.  Today there are about 3,000.

Druze IDF soldier

                                                                       

Druze soldier of IDF

I'll include the Druze community with the Muslims since they are a break-away group from Islam.  This happened back in the 10th century and were granted the status of an autonomous religious group by Israel for the 1st time in their history.  That's because they have their own religious courts, which administer Druze religious law.  There were 18 villages for the 38,000 Druze in the Galilee in 1971.  They also lived on Mt. Carmel.  Every year they practice the pilgrimage of going to the tomb of Jethro, the father-in-law of Moses on the 25th of April.  The tomb is near the Horns of Hittin in the Lower Galilee.  In 1971, 8,000 Druze lived on the Golan Heights.  They were able to have free social and ceremonial contact with their relatives and friends in Israel, and have their own spiritual leadership.  At this time, the Golan was not incorporated into Israel. "On December 14, 1981, the Knesset voted to annex the Golan Heights. The statute extended Israeli civilian law and administration to the residents of the Golan, replacing the military authority that had ruled the area since 1967.  .They were also able to make a pilgrimage every August 25th to the tomb of Nebi Ya'fouri, another of their important religious persons to remember.

Baha'i Center in Haifa showing terraces

The Baha'i  faith is yet another break-away from Islam who are centered in Israel.  Their principal shrines are in Akko (Acre) and in Haifa.  The Universal House of Justice, supreme direction of the Faith, constantly improves the center for the better guidance of their community's affairs.  The gardens on Mount Carmel had been developed and embellished by 1972.

The Arabs and the Druzes are Israel's largest minority groups.  At the beginning of 1972, minorities in Israel numbered 458,500, which doesn't include the population of the administered areas.

About half of the minorities live in about 100 villages.  Two-Fifths live in towns including 73,000 in Jerusalem by 1972.  The rest of about 44,000 were semi-nomadic Beduin.  Of these, 75% are Muslims, 17% Christians, and 8% Druzes and any others, at least by 1972.

Since 1949 at the end of the fighting, the Arab community had grown considerably.  At that time, 140,000 were left in Israeli territory.  The population grew by natural increase and by the re-admission of thousands who had fled when the Arab States had attacked Israel in the War of Independence.
                                                                     

Black Jew (possibly Ethiopian)), Druze, Christian and Muslim IDF soldiers 

Members of the Arab community are exempt from military service in order to avoid any conflict of conscience.  Compulsory military service is applied to the Druze and Circassian communities at their own demand.  I remember attending a meeting in which the speakers from Israel were a male Jew and a female Druze.  She was amazing and was adamant about defending Israel.  She  loved her state.  I was so impressed by her and her ability to read Arabic, since I wanted to ask her about the high school in my city who was teaching Arabic.  My concern was that none of the other teachers or parents could read it and had no idea of what was going up on posters, etc. all written in Arabic.  There they both were, both able to speak English, Arabic and Hebrew, and who knew what else?

Today there are 57 Muslim states in the world.  A Palestine would make it the 59th.  Out of these,  48 states are Muslim Majority states.  Palestine would be the 49th similar to Saudi Arabia with no Jews or Christians allowed in.
                                                         
                                                            Arab Christians
                                                        

Female Arab Christian IDF soldier

Christians living in Israel have been mainly from the Arab community and in 1971 numbered 77,300.  This small number belongs to 30 different Christian denominations.  The main ones by 1971 were the:
1. Greek Catholic--25,000
2. Greek Orthodox--22,000
3. Latin (Roman Catholic) --16,000
4. Maronite (known in Lebanon) --3,500 in 1972.  Today's count is about 7,000.
5. Protestants (Anglicans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Lutherans)--2,500
6. Eastern Monophysite Churches (Armenian Orthodox, Coptic, Ethiopian,Syrian Orthodox)-- 3,500


                                                                       

In 1972 there were about 300 churches and chapels for the Christians.  They had 2,200 clergy including 400 monks and some 850 nuns that belonged to 30 Roman Catholic orders and congregations.  They had 16 religious courts that dealt with matters of personal status.
                                                                           

Catholic Mass in the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, Christian Arabs are one of the most educated ethno-religious groups in Israel

Over 11,000 Christians were living in Jerusalem in 1972.  There they had many Holy Places of paramount importance to Christendom.  It is the seat of the Greek Orthodox, Roman and Armenian Orthodox Patriarchs.  Their congregations make up most of the Christian population, as well as of several archbishops and bishops.  There are also Catholics of the various Uniate Churches;  Anglicans, Lutherans, Syrian Orthodox, Copts and Ethiopians.

What Israel makes possible for the Israeli Christians and Christian pilgrims from abroad (tourists) is that they can walk in the footsteps of Jesus from the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem to Nazareth and the Sea of Galilee, and back to Jerusalem.   While in Jerusalem, they can visit the Hall of the Last Supper on Mount Zion, traverse the Via Dolorosa and worship in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Today at the end of 2016, there are 1.7 million Arab citizens in Israel.  There are 6 million Jews.  Israel was created to be a haven for Jews since they have been so maligned throughout the past 2,000 years.  It is the only Jewish state in the world.  It is imperative that the majority of the population remain  Jewish for this reason, but those that were already living in Palestine at the time of its inception have been welcome additions as citizens.  The Jews know what it was like to be strangers in strange lands.
                                                                         
Jews have realized since its inception that so long as there is no peace between Israel and her Arab neighbors, Israeli Arabs are sometimes torn between their loyalty to Israel and their Arab kinship.  Nevertheless, there is a growing pattern of co-existence between the Jews and Arabs of Israel.  Israel has ensured equality before the law for all citizens without distinction of race, religion or language, and affords its Arab citizens every opportunity to maintain their own culture and traditions.

1917 British soldier in Palestine during 30 year mandate of ruling over population

                                                                   

Avraham Stern,(1907-1942) Nationalist leader of the Stern Group, fighting against British in Palestine
who were just as big a problem as Arab terrorism for Jews living there who were to create their state
with blessings from League of Nations .He left the Irgun Tzevai Leumi when  a leader and formed an underground organization known to British as the Stern Gang.  They had to carry out acts of sabatage.  He was killed at age 35 by British police while being arrested.  My 3rd cousin, Stanley Goldfoot, was the group's Chief of Intelligence. 

During the 30 years when Palestine was under the British mandate that was finished on May 14, 1948, Jews had to develop their own institutions of local government.  The Arab community lagged in doing this.  Only Nazareth, Shfar'am and one Arab village had local councils.  The government of Israel has done much to help and encourage them towards municipalization.  By 1972, 2 municipalities and 46 local councils were predominantly Arab or Druze.  27 Arab villages were also represented in mixed Arab-Jewish local or regional councils.  Except the Beduin, 82.5% of the Arabs lived in areas with local government by 1972.

Arabs and Druzes play and active part in political life of Israel, and their interests are effectively represented in the Legislature.  In the 7th Knesset of 1972, there were 6 Arabs of which one was a Deputy Speaker and one was a Deputy Minister and one Druze who was a Deputy Minister.

 "There are three mainstream Arab parties in Israel: Hadash (a joint Arab-Jewish party with a large Arab presence), Balad, and the United Arab List, which is a coalition of several different political organizations including the Islamic Movement in Israel. In addition to these, there is Ta'al. All of these parties primarily represent Arab-Israeli and Palestinian interests, and the Islamic Movement is an Islamist organization with two factions: one that opposes Israel's existence, and another that opposes its existence as a Jewish state. Two Arab parties ran in Israel's first election in 1949, with one, the Democratic List of Nazareth, winning two seats. Until the 1960s all Arab parties in the Knesset were aligned with Mapai, the ruling party."

I wonder what Barak Hussein Obama, a community organizer before becoming Senator and President, would think about Israel's fast abilities to organize the living conditions of such a diverse community that makes up Israel.  I'm not even mentioning the single Israeli problem of a population making aliyah to grow from 650,000 to 6 million in 69 years and all the planning that went into that to reach solutions amid fighting and wars.  No other state with this few people have ever faced such challenges before and yet maintain their ideology and fairness that their religion demands of them. The USA voted against Israel this time; a first, in abstaining on a resolution about "settlements" in Judea and Samaria by Jews. since the 1967 Six Day War.  By doing this they were siding with the Palestinians.  In the Paris conference coming up in a few days, they will most likely do the same thing and just go over Israel's heads as if they are not there.  To this American-Israeli Jew, it is purely disgusting.  Also on the 20th, Donald Trump will be the new American President who is not of the same party as Obama.  He will be vastly different, but will be handed a lot of problems brought on at the last minute concerning Israel and their rights as a Democratic country.

I'm sad to report that much of the BDS movement has been coming from these same Christian Arab leadership of today.  Even my reference lists "Palestine" as if already a declared state which it is not.  It lists 173,000 Christians today of which are 6.0%.  6% of what, may I ask?  Are they really going to let in Christian Arabs into their Palestine?  They've already declared that their state is to be Judeanrein (NO JEWS ALLOWED.)

Why are so many of my pictures those of soldiers?  Because every adult, male and female, are needed to defend this tiny country made of only 8,000 sq. miles that is surrounded by so many Muslim enemy states, sworn to not accept peace.  Improvements are happening, though, with the 2 closest neighbors of Egypt and Jordan, signing peace agreements.  May they continue.

Added more:  1/13/17 at 1:25pm about Obama and Israel, again later on Golan Heights.  
Resource:  Facts About Israel by Division of Information, Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem 1973
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-why-i-as-a-muslim-stand-with-israel/?utm_source=pushengage&utm_medium=push_notification&utm_campaign=pushengage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.615855 Jordanian passports to Muslim Israelis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_citizens_of_Israel
http://jewishfactsfromportland.blogspot.com/2016/05/incomprehensible-moves-against-israel.html--Christian Arabs starting BDS
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9755/obama-betrayal-israel
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/golan_hts.html