El verdadero Apartheid en Medio Oriente

La miseria y la discriminación, perpetuadas por los palestinos y financiadas por las Naciones Unidas. Lean sobre Balata, un campo de "refugiados" cerca de Nablus, bajo el control y responsabilidad de la Autoridad Palestina (que oximorón) :

[...] Depending upon whose estimate you read, there are some twenty or thirty thousand “refugees” in the Balata refugee camp outside of Nablus. Balata is simultaneously the most populous and smallest of the Palestinian refugee camps — its growing population is confined to one square kilometer, making it one of the most densely populated and miserable places on the planet.

Any regime with an ounce of compassion would have shut Balata down and integrated its people into the surrounding community. Balata is a place without hope, a quagmire of despair, where the day-to-day misery of its inhabitants is partially ameliorated by Western charities and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA), while inadvertently building a culture of dependence.

Discrepo con lo de "inadvertidamente", esto es 100% deliberado. Pero sigamos :

Balata’s creation could ostensibly be laid at Israel’s doorstep, but its perpetuation cannot. The current residents of Balata are only refugees by a crude reworking of the meaning of the term. They themselves have fled from nothing, and sought refuge from nothing. They are the children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren of the people who fled or were expelled during the 1948 war.

Cualquier parecido con quienes viven en villas miseria argentinas desde hace tres generaciones, no es coincidencia, es by design. Pero vamos al meollo del asunto :

If you want to use the term “apartheid” to characterize some aspect of Middle East politics, then Balata is a good place to apply it. It is the Palestinian Authority’s answer to Soweto.

The PA does not permit the children of Balata to go to local schools. It does not permit the people of Balata to build outside the one square kilometer. The people of Balata are prevented from voting in local elections, and the PA provides none of the funds for the necessary infrastructure of the camp — including sewers and roads.

Balata and the other refugee camps are showcases of contrived misery. They are Potemkin villages in reverse. Naïve peace activists and unsophisticated Western clergy are led through such camps to witness the refugee drama, with Israel conveniently and prominently cast in the role of villain.

Esto es obedientemente retransmitido por la prensa internacional y también por blogueros de mala leche. Pero veamos que pasó con los otros refugiados del mismo conflicto :

Originally, there were about 700,000 Palestinian refugees. Because the Palestinians have rewritten the meaning of the term “refugee,” creating refugees that transcend generations; there are now 4.5 million Palestinian refugees.

The original number of Palestinian refugees is roughly equivalent to the number of Mizrahi Jews that were forcibly evicted from the Arab and Islamic world after the establishment of the state of Israel. Israel, and to a lesser degree the West, absorbed these refugees. Within three years, they ceased being refugees. Today, neither they nor their descendants inhabit dismal, overcrowded camps, living as a people apart and without hope.

La UNWRA es una burocracia que gasta billones de dólares en perpetuar problemas para así justificar su propia existencia. Es un cáncer que debería ser extirpado y sus responsables castigados. Pero no pienso contener el aliento esperando algo así.