Please explain this then sir: UNRWA denied that it teaches the Holocaust in preparatory schools or that the Holocaust is included in the pupils' curriculum. Adnan Abu Hasna, UNRWA spokesman in Gaza, said: "Such reports are totally untrue. The current curriculum that is taught to pupils at UNRWA schools doesn't contain any indication to the subject of the Holocaust"

The facts are available for all to read and Mr. Dann hit the nail on the head. Your unique organization has aided and abetted Arab terrorism. Your claims of innocence is totally false and we know it.

Why UN needs two organizations: one for Palestinian refugees and another for all other refugees? Why such discrimination? And also: why Palestinians live in refugee camps in Gaza? Isn't Gaza Palestinian territory? Why Palestinians are "refugees" in their own country?

Of course they passed a special law for UNRWA, this is why he claims it is legal, and why Arabs settlers from Israel have a special Refugee Agency only for them. All other refugees in the world are under UNHCR.

Gunness is plating with semantics, Moshe Dann is absolutely correct.

When did yet get in the business of publishing comedic fiction?

I've seldom read an article as insulting to my intelligence as this one, even on Ynet. Does Mr. Gunness expect us to believe that the UNRWA has no part in perpetuating the refugee crisis? The following excerpt says everything we need to know about the UNRWA and its spokesman: "On the question of resettling refugees, all internationally accepted paradigms for resolving the Arab-Israeli conflict envisage the refugee question being resolved in the context of a just and durable solution, based on UN resolutions and international law, agreed by the parties and in consultation with the refugees. It is the failure of the parties to reach such an agreement that is perpetuating the refugee crisis." Does that mean that while we have no agreement with the Palestinians, we should keep killing one another? This is certainly what Mr. Gunness implies. He basically says that none of the region's problems can be solved unless a piece of paper is signed by some important people. I saw, wake up Mr. Gunness! Wake up from your denial, and work for solving the refugee problem, instead of contributing to it and making it worse year after year.

Whilst Mr Chris Gunness kindly tries to suggest the UNRWA's work is neutral by the fact that it even " teaches human rights and peaceful conflict resolution every day to some 500,000 children in the Arab states and territories around Israel, encouraging in the next generation the belief in a peaceful and stable future." If this is indeed the case and to be believed as a neutral body, then perhaps it must be questioned why he so ignores such reasonings with this statement that question why the UNRWA believes that "Holocaust education" will harm Palestinian children but yet publicly stated they should be taught about the acts of massacre committed against the Palestinians. To be neutral you either teach both ideas or you teach neither of them as being damaging to the children - and this is just one example proving simple false PR by the author this Op-Ed article.

If UNRWA is "neutrally promoting universal values and teaching peaceful conflict resolution", can you Chris\ point to anythinhg you have actually achieved in this area? And how come UNRWA, almost alone among UN bodies, is managing to maintain neutrality? Whether or not the UNRWA is antisemitic, I believe that if it and the other agencies interfering in the I/P situation were deprived of funds, a solution would be found much more quckily.

Isn't that the school with the giant wall mural of a suicide bomber, as well as posters of other "martyrs"? Is that what Gunness means by "we teach human rights and peaceful conflict resolution every day"?

Hell, the entire UN should be de-funded. No funds, no refugees. Who the hell is a refugee after 63 years? How many generations is that? These Arabs are kept like this as a weapon against Israel. How come the UN didn't pay for Jewish refugees from Arab countries? The UN is the most corrupt, biased, useless organization on the face of the Earth, a country club for over-paid bureaucrats, composed of miserable dictatorships who make a mockery of the UN Charter.

After peeling off the nice sounding, but absolutely meaningless "lullaby-song" words designed to obfuscate UNRWA's sins in indoctrination and false pro-Palestinian, generally anti-Israeli propaganda, this piece is short on credibly refuting anything Moshe Dann says and long on inrrelevant semantics. Why did the Candian goverment recently decided to defund your horrible (obnoxious) organisation then, Mr. Gunness?

I have some great property to sell you on my special island out in the Caribbean Sea. Act now and I'll throw in a bridge and a boat for FREE!!!!

This article is almost laughable. After WW II, there were tens of millions of refugees throughout Europe and Asia. They've all been comfortably settled decades ago; except for "Palestinians". "Palestinians" are the UNRWA's meal ticket. They are the ticket for the good life for tens of thousands of high living UNRWA functionaries. Thus the UNRWA's goal is to perpetuate the refugee problem forever. Defund the UNRWA and the refugee problem will quickly solve itself. Just as all the other refugee problems were quickly resolved.

1) "All refugee communities...have their refugee status passed through the generations while their plight remains unresolved. Refugees in Kenya ...are a good example" Really? What exactly is going on in Kenya? I assume you mean the Somalis from the ongoing war. Have they been 'refugees' for three + generations? 2) "..we teach human rights and peaceful conflict resolution every day to some 500,000 children in the Arab states and territories around Israel, encouraging in the next generation the belief in a peaceful and stable future. Here our contribution IS unique." - What contribution? after all these generations what "peaceful conflict resolution" has come from the Palestinans?? 3) "... It is the failure of the parties to reach such an agreement " (to resolve the crisis) 'that is perpetuating the refugee crisis. ' NO - it is the Arab governents locking up Palestinans in camps with no rights - and UNWRA's complicity in this travesty - that is perpetuating the crisis!!

In ALL your interviews that I hear on BBC world service radio, you only SINGLE out Israel for practically ALL the things that are wrong or bad in Gaza. NOT once do you provide CONTEXT to the NECESSARY actions taken by Israel - hamas and its reign of TERROR against Israel. You also DESCRIBE Israel's blockade in very VILE terms while SPARING Egypt. You CLAIM that UNRWA teaches "human rights and peaceful conflict resolution". Yet, there is a huge wall MURAL that GLORIFIES a female SUICIDE BOMBER at a UNWRA school at Deheisheh. In the same area, there is ANOTHER huge MURAL on the wall of the UNWRA community centre that CELEBRATES and promotes VIOLENCE. You are very happy to ACCEPT hamas offer to have UNWRA schools built NEXT to its MILITARY facility. It is IMPOSSIBLE that you are UNAWARE that the schools and students would be in DANGER should hamas FIRE at Israel FROM that facility. Then again, you probably BELIEVE that using HUMAN SHIELDS is a part of "universal values". You CLAIM that UNRWA - and thus its staff - is NEUTRAL. But you and your colleage, John Ging, DELIBERATELY omitted CRUCIAL info to create the FALSE impression that the IDF targeted a UNRWA school in Jabaliya and killed more than 40 people during Cast Lead. And later on, you created a PLAY that simply DEMONISES the IDF. Between FACTS and your lazy protestations, I choose the FORMER anytime.

This guy reminds me of that old Monty Python skit -- Hitler is in line at heaven and asks to be let in. "But you're Adolf Hitler!" "No, I'm not." "You're a bloody murderer." "No, I'm not."

Mr Chris Gunness How come you do not want to handle the Jewish refuges problem. I was forced out of my birth country at the age of 15 with nothing but my clothes on my back. since then I have not receive a penny from you or anybody else . I learn to survive on my own. J'ACCUSE, So Mr Chris Gunness you lie through one's teeth and you are an antisemite to top it.

Not.... just keep telling yourself this, and you will sleep well I am sure.

I've just seen on CNN Mr. Gunness accusing Israel of collecting punishment vaguely suggesting that it violates int'l law gratuitously. Obviouslythe whole circus on BBC World News is a cleverly crafted ploy to spreadthe nonsense of deprivation of Gazans by having "one of the highest unemployment rate in the world" and UNRWA is of coruse pointing finger at big evil Israel's "blockade". It was the leading news item the whole afternoon and evening. It's sickening and revolting. It's pure hate-incitement. It goes like this:UNWRA and the BBC may have winked-winked and timed this illogical, tranpsrently flawed non-issue right before the assumed start of the flotilla embarking. It's transprant, and ver-very un-amusing.

I have never read such blatent lies! Its time the US cut its aid to the UN. All the UN is today is a racist body, for racist people who pick on small minorities. A pathetic body, for a pathetic world. Make better use of that land in New York and build more skyscrapers.

the belief in a peaceful ... How many generations did you do it already and what is your outcome?

defence. Written like a true bureaucrat (in the worse sense).

#17- Excellent post. C. Gunness- 1. UNRWA has admitted that Hamas members work for UNRWA. 2. The camps were caused by the arabs not helping their 'brothers'. It is perpetuated by UNRWA.

thats why this pathological liar gets uncritical airtime there.

The article by Chris Gunness defending UNRWA positions begs for refutation. All we need are a few facts: He says: "All refugee communities, whether those under the care of UNRWA or UNHCR, have their refugee status passed through the generations while their plight remains unresolved." Ah, but UNHCR is mandated to solve refugee problems quickly and allow refugees to get on with their lives. If refugees must be resettled in another country, that is done. UNRWA, on the other hand, maintains the position that a Palestinian Arab refugee retains that status as refugee until "returning" to Israel. Palestinian Arabs who have acquired new citizenship are still on the UNRWA books as refugees. As to the denial that UNRWA is ever complicit in promoting terrorism, we need look no further than the fact that for years Hamas affiliated candidates have won the elections as representatives for the UNRWA teachers union in Gaza. These people control the schools. In the course of my work on UNRWA I have documented the fact that the Islamic Bloc, an affiliate of Hamas, actually runs activities in the schools that promote jihad and encourage students to join Hamas.

Apparently the comic irony that our 2000-year old refugee claim to these lands is kosher and the 60+ year old Palestinian refugee claim is stale falls completely flat on all you Talkbackers. So - not - funny really.....

I don't know who Mr. Gunness things he's talking to. Explaining the 'good deeds of UNWRA. Well, he's not talking to Arabs or Usefull Idiots, but people who know their facts & their history, so he should state the facts or shut up. The only thing that Mr. Gunness 'realy cares for is his 'paycheck. If he realy would care for the 'plight of the Palestinians' he would desolve the UNWRA as a 'useless, money eating apparatus, which hasn't brought resuls in the last 60+ years. Anything that doesn't work has to be desolved. Even the stupid EU understands that just "giving money to Greece is not a good idea. Only the Palies get their money flows without any condition or regulations. I wonder why.

And it needs to be closed down,a corrupt organization.There is no need for UNWRA anymore,there are people around the world who are far more deserving than the Palestinians,and the money that goes to UNWRA should be given to THEM.......