Chris Van Hollen is the kind of mark UNRWA’s scam profits off of

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is a terrorist-supporting scam running on tax dollars from naive countries run by people who think like Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD).

Van Hollen ripped into Israel’s accusations about UNRWA, declaring that Israel wants to destroy UNRWA because Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views the agency “as a means to continue the hopes of the Palestinian people for a homeland of their own.” According to Van Hollen, Netanyahu “has been opposed to a two-state solution. And this has been his primary objective, stopping a two-state solution.”

Van Hollen is in the tank for UNRWA, proving him to be one of the useful idiots that the U.N. agency relies on to avoid scrutiny and leach taxpayer money from Western countries. UNRWA has shown that it has no interest in a two-state solution or in helping Palestinians find “a homeland of their own.” The agency has perpetuated the conflict by christening each generation of Palestinians as refugees, which does not match the definition the United Nations uses in any other context.

The UNRWA definition is used to justify its own continued existence and funding, despite UNRWA acknowledging in a 1951 report that the goal should be to shut down the organization and its relief efforts. That doesn’t bring in money for U.N. bureaucrats, though, so the Palestinian “refugee” crisis must continue.

All of this is before you get to UNRWA’s tacit (and sometimes active) support for terrorism. The issue is not just that several UNRWA employees took part in the terrorist attacks against Israel on Oct. 7, which Van Hollen dismisses as just “the bad acts of 14 people” in an agency of over 13,000. UNRWA was (supposedly unwittingly) harboring a Hamas military compound underneath its headquarters in Gaza, and its commissioner-general in 2004 acknowledged that Hamas terrorists were probably working for UNRWA and decided it was no big deal.

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Just last week, Israel killed a Hamas commander at a UNRWA food distribution center in a targeted strike. UNRWA doesn’t want an investigation into how or why a Hamas commander was at a facility that is supposed to be giving aid to civilians, though; it wants an investigation into Israel. Meanwhile, Hamas has a proven track record of stealing aid meant for civilians, and the existence of that aid also allows the terrorist group to save its own money for its terrorist activities.

This is all made possible by gullible political leaders like Chris Van Hollen, who have decided that Israel is the problem and that Hamas’ terrorism is not a serious concern. UNRWA has perpetuated this conflict and Palestinian terrorism and should be defunded completely, but that is made impossible thanks to the naive political class that has bought into its sham mission.