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Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (Hardcover)
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Religion, Politics, and the Origins of Palestine Refugee Relief (Hardcover)
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This book examines the leading role of the Quaker American Friends
Service Committee (AFSC) in the United Nations relief program for
Palestine Arab refugees in 1948-1950 in the Gaza Strip. It situates
the operation within the context of the AFSC's attempts to exercise
new influence on the separate issues of pacifism and disarmament at
a time marked by US efforts to construct a Cold War security regime
in the Middle East and British efforts to retain influence and
bases in Arab countries. Using archival data, oral histories,
diplomatic documents, and biographical and autobiographical
accounts, the authors provide a detailed look at internal
decision-making in an early non-governmental organization where
beliefs regarding the requirement to provide refugees with skills
for self-reliance clashed with intractable political and cultural
realities and the realization that only full repatriation or
resettlement elsewhere would solve the problem (a lesson that UNRWA
and the international community learned only decades later). Faced
with impossible solutions, the Quakers withdrew. The story of AFSC
involvement in Gaza shows that refugee relief is always political
and that humanitarianism can prolong the problems it seeks to
solve.
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