Speech #910118851

It is a dead letter. The officials of this organization and those others in the U.N. and our State Department who may be held responsible or partly responsible. should be condemned for their flouting the law. We are now told that some 14 out of 15 of the Palestine refugee camps in Lebanon are in the control of guerrillas and members of the Palestine Liberation Army. Thus our money is being used to maintain these refugee camps which. in turn. are used for recruiting soldiers to attack Israeli settlements. Our moneys are used to lend encouragement to El Fatah and Arab marauders who bomb marketplaces. buses. and homes that take the lives of the innocent. These camps have cost us since 1948 to date $471.618.000. The authorization for the current fiscal year will be $23 million. that is about 53 percent of the total cost of maintenance of these camps. Heretofore our contribution has been 70 percent. Surely we must direct our attention to this vast outlay which has accomplished little or nothing. but on the contrary has brought about genuine evil. - The number of refugees has not diminished. The number has yearly been augmented. Many are in these camps who are not really refugees. Ration cards are often bought and sold. Many are selfsupporting. They should be weeded out. No accurate assessment has been made by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency. The latter has a ridiculous working rule: "once a refugee always a refugee." Refugee status is handed down from the original refugees to their children and their childrens children and all subsequent generations. This definition is absurd. The United States helps pay for the education of children of refugees in the schools inside these camps. In these schools are taught hatred and animosity of the Israelis. The children are saturated with antiIsrael propagandaand we in part pay for such socalled education.