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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 criticizes UNRWA for not ousting terrorists from its ranks (see expanded article UNRWA#James_G._Lindsay)

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".

See also

References

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
  6. James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
  7. James G. Lindsay "Policy Watch #1307 - Tony Blair Takes on West Bank Aid ", Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 19 November 2007
  8. Natasha Mozgovaya "Ex-UNRWA official blasts agency for politicizing Palestinian refugee issue", Haaretz, 8 February 2009
  9. Tovah Lazaroff "'UNRWA staff not tested for terror ties' ", Jerusalem Post, 31 January 2009