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| As for our schools, we use textbooks of the Palestinian Authority. Are they perfect? No, they’re not. I can’t defend the indefensible. |
<blockquote>As for our schools, we use textbooks of the Palestinian Authority. Are they perfect? No, they’re not. I can’t defend the indefensible.<ref>Adi Schwartz ''Adi Schwartz' Blog'' (an Unabridged version of an article published in Israeli daily newspaper "Israel HaYom"), 15 November 2010</ref></blockquote> | ||
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James G. Lindsay is an attorney and researcher specializing in the subject of Palestinian refugees.
Career
U.S. Department of Justice
Lindsay spent twenty years as an attorney in the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, with assignments in the Internal Security, Appellate, and Asset Forfeiture Sections, as well as in the U.S. Attorney's offices in Washington, D.C., and Miami.
Multinational Force and Observers
Between 1985 and 1994, Lindsay was seconded to the Multinational Force and Observers in Sinai, serving as the force counsel for legal and treaty affairs. In 2000, he took early retirement from the Justice Department to join UNRWA in Gaza.
UNRWA
Lindsay served with UNRWA from 2000 to 2007. As legal advisor and general counsel for the organization from 2002, he oversaw all UNRWA legal activities, from aid contracts to relations with Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority.
Washington Institute for Near East Policy
After leaving UNRWA, Lindsay joined the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as an Aufzien fellow. Lindsay focuses in his research on Palestinian refugee issues and UN humanitarian assistance.
Views
Economic projects in the Palestinian Authority
Lindsay argued that internationally funded construction projects in the West Bank should try and minimize foreign labor and maximize the participation of Palestinian workers and management to ensure economic expansion through salaries, job training, and improved infrastructure. Lindsay stated the some financial control should stay in international hands to avoid "nepotism or corruption".
Palestinian refugees
Lindsay has argued that in any peace sttlement acceptable by Israel "there will be few, if any, Palestinian refugees returning to Israel proper". Linday suggested that internationally funded construction projects should try and benefit West Bank refugees that are willing to give up their longstanding demand for a "right of return". Lindsay also claimed that projects that will improve the living conditions of West Bank refugees could also be seen as part of the reparations or damages to be paid to refugees in any likely Israeli-Palestinian agreement. Lindsay criticized the Palestinian Authority treatment of these refugees:
PA projects are not likely to address refugee needs, however, since the PA has traditionally deferred to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) regarding infrastructure in refugee camps.
UNRWA
Lindsay has published a report for Washington Institute for Near East Policy, in which he criticized UNRWA practices. Lindsay claimed that UNRWA is not ousting terrorists from its ranks (on this subject see expanded article UNRWA#James_G._Lindsay).
Lindsay also stated that UNRWA’s failure to match UNHCR’s success in resettling refugees "obviously represents a political decision on the part of the agency"
Lindsay claimed that UNRWA "seems to favor the strain of Palestinian political thought espoused by those who are intent on a 'return' to the land that is now Israel"."
Lindsay argued that UNRWA’s education system is highly problematic. Lindsay quoted a number of American researches that defined UNRWA's schools' curriculum as "highly nationalistic" and "not a 'peace curriculum'" and stated that the textbooks fail "to identify Israel on maps", and that they avoid "discussing Jews or Israelis as individuals (which critics argue would make them more “human” to the reader)".
Response to Lindsay's report
Andrew Whitley, director of the UNRWA representative office at UN headquarters in New York, said: "The agency is disappointed by the findings of the study, found it to be tendentious and partial, and regrets in particular the narrow range of sources used".
UNRWA's Jerusalem spokesman Chris Gunness stated that UNRWA rejects Lindsay's report and its findings and claimed that the study was inaccurate and misleading, since it "makes selective use of source material and fails to paint a truthful portrait of UNRWA and its operations today".
John Ging, head of UNRWA, stated in regards with Lindsay's criticism on UNRWA failure to resettle refugees that he was disappointed to find this issue in Lindsay’s report. Ging argued that Lindsay had "no basis to say that it is UNRWA’s decision because our mandate is given to us. I agree that it is a political failure, but we don’t set up the mandate, we are only the implementers".”.
Regarding the report portion about UNRWA's schools, Ging said:
As for our schools, we use textbooks of the Palestinian Authority. Are they perfect? No, they’re not. I can’t defend the indefensible.
See also
References
- James G. Lindsay (About The Author) "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- James G. Lindsay (About The Author) "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- James G. Lindsay (About The Author) "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- James G. Lindsay (About The Author) "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN's Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN’s Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees", January 2009
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN’s Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees", January 2009, p. 36
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN’s Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees", January 2009, p. 65
- James G. Lindsay "Policy Focus #91 - Fixing UNRWA: Repairing the UN’s Troubled System of Aid to Palestinian Refugees", January 2009, p. 43; p. 61
- Natasha Mozgovaya "Ex-UNRWA official blasts agency for politicizing Palestinian refugee issue", Haaretz, 8 February 2009
- Tovah Lazaroff "'UNRWA staff not tested for terror ties' ", Jerusalem Post, 31 January 2009
- Adi Schwartz "UNRWA’s existence is a failure", Adi Schwartz' Blog (an Unabridged version of an article published in Israeli daily newspaper "Israel HaYom"), 15 November 2010
- Adi Schwartz "UNRWA’s existence is a failure", Adi Schwartz' Blog (an Unabridged version of an article published in Israeli daily newspaper "Israel HaYom"), 15 November 2010