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US Should Redirect Funding Away From UNRWA

By Ma. Rizza Leonzon on 08 February 2010

The U.S. should follow Canada’s lead on redirecting funds away from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which provides food, jobs and education in the Palestinian territories, Heather Robinson of the Huffington Post writes. The U.N. agency, according to Robinson, has been using textbooks that promote propaganda denying Israel’s right to exist and lack concrete perspective espousing nonviolent conflict resolution. The same books are being used in Palestinian schools run by the Palestinian Authority and Hamas.

Ma. Rizza Leonzon
As a staff writer, Rizza focuses mainly on business coverage, including key donors such as the Asian Development Bank and AusAID. She covers breaking business news particularly at the ADB and has conducted interviews with specialists from the Inter-American Development Bank, World Bank and other top players in international development. Rizza also contributes to the daily Development Newswire and other Devex publications.

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