We should also consider the counterfactual here right, though? If UNRWA gets less money, will that actually result in Palestinian’s getting taught a better curriculum? Why would it? They will use some textbook, or rely on teacher’s own materials, whether or not new UNRWA textbooks are available in the future. Most likely they will use either the old UNRWA textbooks, or other materials acceptable to Hamas/​whoever runs Gaza after the war, in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. How much difference does UNRWA counting Palestinian’s as refugees if they are refugee descendants actually make to Palestinian opinion anyway? After all, at least some Jews-maybe most historically, I am not sure, though Zionism as a practical political movement is modern-managed to believe they belonged in Palestine for 2000 years after expulsion without any validation from the UN.
(I’m assuming for the sake of the argument that the empirical claims about UNRWA textbooks your making below are true.)
We should also consider the counterfactual here right, though? If UNRWA gets less money, will that actually result in Palestinian’s getting taught a better curriculum? Why would it? They will use some textbook, or rely on teacher’s own materials, whether or not new UNRWA textbooks are available in the future. Most likely they will use either the old UNRWA textbooks, or other materials acceptable to Hamas/​whoever runs Gaza after the war, in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank. How much difference does UNRWA counting Palestinian’s as refugees if they are refugee descendants actually make to Palestinian opinion anyway? After all, at least some Jews-maybe most historically, I am not sure, though Zionism as a practical political movement is modern-managed to believe they belonged in Palestine for 2000 years after expulsion without any validation from the UN.
(I’m assuming for the sake of the argument that the empirical claims about UNRWA textbooks your making below are true.)