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Goodwill to All
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Khaled Hosseini, U.S. envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and author of A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Kite Runner, talks about his second novel and his work with the UNHCR in Afghanistan.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has become part of the problem in some situations. For example, Palestinians are clearly in a vicious circle of refugee identify crisis. When will the UNHCR take responsibility for being part of the Palestinian problem and not part of the solution? Being a refugee carries political weight for the Palestinians. At what point does the UNHCR take a step back and say, “You Palestinians have been offered statehood numerous times since 1948 but you turn it down because being refugees serves your culture of victimhood and hate for Israel.” The UNHCR are the real oppressors in Palestine, not Israel. The UNHCR should cut those chains that bind the Palestinian people to misery.
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