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====In Lebanon====
====In Lebanon====
In 1982, UNRWA school in Siblin (Seblin) Southern [[Lebanon]] was tuned into a terrorist headquarter for the [[PLO]], with masses of weapons caches, material to provide for terror, including to act internationally. In one of the rooms picture of [[Arafat]] on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background.<ref>Seidman, Hillel. United Nations, perfidy and perversion. New York: M.P. Press, 1982. pp. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=CTYwAAAAYAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=swastika 187-8].
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U.N. SCHOOL HOUSED ARAFAT'S SCHOOL FOR TERRORISTS
(The Jerusalem Post, June 24, 1982, by Yosef Goell) (excerpts)
SIDON .– what was apparently the central training school for Fatah terrorists in Lebanon was discovered several days ago by Israeli soldiers in a vocational training school run by the United Nations Relief and Work Agency.
[. . .] The lower buildings were devoted exclusively to the Fatah terrorist training school.
of RPG (rocket - propelled grenade) launchers and missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti-tank and anti-aircraft missile launchers, hand grenades and an assortment of other weapons and explosives.
The officer in charge of de-activating the weapons and explosives said the large cache was mostly of Soviet and Eastern Bloc origin, but Chinese, Swedish, Belgian and NATO equipment and American recoilless rifles were also found.
The terrorist training centre had a modern audio-visual language laboratory, in every way the equal of the Hebrew university's language laboratory.
Most of the students' rooms contained eight double-decker beds and a double locker for each student.
Clothing and personal possessions had been left behind in disarray, in what was apparently a hasty flight just ahead of the Israeli forces. The lockers contained books on business English, illustrated weapons manuals in Arabic, PLO propaganda material...
.. officer in charge said that one of the rooms in the building had been fitted out for Yasser Arafat's personal use as one of his scattered headquarters.
Personal effects said to belong to the PLO chairman were on display, including his well-known Russian fur hat. In another room, a picture of Arafat on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background.
Several dozen truckloads of weapons , ammunition and explosives had already been removed from the school by the time of yesterday's visit, and there were still many to come. Other arms caches were discovered in the general area, largely in private homes.
The unofficial IDF military governor of Sidon later said that the IDF had invited UNRWA to continue its activities in all its schools. None of the UNRWA staff of the Siblin school could be found to explain the double use that had been made of their vocational - training facilities over the years.</font></blockquote></ref><ref name= sho1989>Schoenberg, Harris Okun. A Mandate for Terror: The United Nations and the PLO. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1989. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YohtAAAAMAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Arafat+on+the+wall+was+flanked+by+a+large+black+swastika%22 p. 183]
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While no debates and no pledging conferences were organized by the UN for Jewish refugees , the mandate for UNRWA was extended decades ... donating $ 60- $ 100 million a year, to prevent the radicalization of the refugees when, in fact, the camps were the breeding ground for PLO terror. The Associated Oress reported already on June 18, 1979 that PLO terrorists controlled...
During Israel's 1982 strike against the PLO in Lebanon , the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) revealed that UNRWA schools were used as terrorist bases and that shelters and schools were used as arms depots . The IDF also discovered a training school for Fatah terrorists in Lebanon located in a vocational training school run by UNRWA at Siblin. At the Siblin Vocational Training Center situated on a mountaintop several kilometers north of Sidon, the IDF found rocket-propelled grenade launchers and missiles, Kalashnikov assault rifles, anti - tank and anti-aircraft missile launchers, hand grenades, abd an assortment of other weapons and explosives.
The center featured a modern audio-visual language laboratory to help students assigned to terrorist activities to work in different parts of the world.
The student dormitory was found strewn with military uniforms. In one room, a picture of Arafat on the wall was flanked by a large black swastika on a red background. A captured document seemed to show that UNIFIL, the UN peacekeeping forces in southern Lebanon, provided intelligence to the PLO about coming Israeli reprisals.
Information uncovered by the IDF revealed that no student was permitted to graduate from the Siblin Center without graduating first from the Fatah course of study and serving a minimum of twelve months with the PLO.
The initial coverup was undertaken by UNRWA's employees. All but 120 of the 17,000 UNRWA staff are Palestinian Arabs. As one staff member put it a few years later. "You might say we're a Palestinian agency under the UN flag."
UNRWA headquarters continued to cover up until the U.S. suspended payments in 1982 and made no new pledge for 1983.
The UN agency finally issued a report which confirmed all the charges. UNRWA's Commissioner-General Olof Rydbeck, the former Swedish ambassador at the UN, later admitted that for some time prior to the disclosure, he had not been permitted to inspect UNRWA camps in southern Lebanon without prior notice to the PLO, and then only with an escort provided by the organization...</font></blockquote></ref><ref>Becker, Jillian. The Plo: The Rise and Fall of the Palestine Liberation Organization. United Kingdom: AuthorHouse, 2014. [https://books.google.com/books?id=tGw6AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA186 p. 186].
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One room in it was reserved as an office for Yasser Arafat. His portrait hung on the wall above a swastika.
Teaching material was stacked in the upper storey, including, in 1982, poems praising the assassins of Anwar Sadat.
The lower storey of the building was used as an arms store for Katyusha rockets, rocket propelled grenades, hand-grenades, mines, and Kalashnikov sub-machine-guns. Most of them were of Soviet make, but some were from Sweden, and there was also some NATO equipment. A lecturer from Norway visited the Siblin school inJuly 1982 and reported that 'they were filled with hand-grenades, weapons, uniforms, military manuals, PLO propaganda and posters showing [on the map] the final solution of the Palestinian problem – the abolition of Israel.'
For the most part, the education of the young was an education in active aggression. It formed fighters for the Palestinian Revolution.
This was the case even in the ordinary UNRWA school, where general school curricula were followed, but all subjects were used as vehicles of propaganda.</blockquote></ref> The coverup went on for while. The initial coverup was undertaken by UNRWA's employees. All but 120 of the 17,000 UNRWA staff are Palestinian Arabs. As one staff member put it a few years later. "You might say we're a Palestinian agency under the UN flag."
It has been revealed that UNIFIL was actually providing heads up for PLO on incoming IDF actions. <ref name=sho1989/><ref>Ben Gad, Yitschak. Politics, Lies, and Videotape: 3,000 Questions and Answers on the Mideast Crisis. United States: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991. [https://books.google.com/books?id=zRyAT5qNtjQC&pg=PA165 p. 165].
<blockquote>UNRWA SCHOOL HOUSES ARAFAT'S SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE:
<blockquote>UNRWA SCHOOL HOUSES ARAFAT'S SCHOOL OF VIOLENCE:
A 1982 picture of Arafat and the Nazi swastika are among the wall decorations of a room in the UNRWA school in Siblin (South Lebanon) which was turned into a terrorist training center by the PLO that year. (Rahamim Israeli).</blockquote></ref>
A 1982 picture of Arafat and the Nazi swastika are among the wall decorations of a room in the UNRWA school in Siblin (South Lebanon) which was turned into a terrorist training center by the PLO that year. (Rahamim Israeli).</blockquote></ref>