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A group of bipartisan US congressmen is urging reform in UNRWA, the UN body that deals exclusively with Palestinian refugees and their descendants, and calling for alternative solutions to the containment of refugees in squalid camps. "The Palestinian refugees have been used as political pawns for the past 60 years by people who don't want peace in the Middle East," said Congressman Eliot Engel (D-New York) at a meeting of international parliamentarians hosted last week by the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus, a bipartisan pro-Israel parliamentary group. "The UN has been part and parcel of this conspiracy," he said. Engel, who...

After countless complaints from Foreign Ministry officials about Israeli politicians thronging New York City and Washington DC at the expense of the rest of America, one MK has taken the message to heart. National Union MK Benny Elon completed a three week long tour of America's heartland on Friday, meeting Christian pastors, broadcasters, and Congressmen and thousands of ordinary folks in Indiana and Illinois. The goal of the trip was to mobilize and organize grass roots support from American Christians to support Israel's continued control of Judea and Samaria and oppose Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's unilateral disengagement plan. "I tried...

MK Benny Elon, whom Prime Minister Sharon fired from his position as Tourism Minister because of his opposition to the disengagement/expulsion plan, presented his "Jordan is Palestine" plan to Jordan's Prince Hassan. Elon told Arutz-7 that his meetings with Hassan and other Jordanian officials took place several months ago in Jordan, while he was still a Cabinet minister. He said that the Prince said that his country would be hard-put to accept such a plan because of a "crisis of confidence" between Jordan and Israel. Hassan complained that Israel always gave precedence to diplomatic initiatives with the Palestinian Authority as...

Elon Demands Talks with the PA be Frozen 20:49 Nov 03, '03 / 8 Cheshvan 5764 (IsraelNN.com) Minister of Tourism (National Union) Benny Elon called on Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz to immediately halt all diplomatic efforts with the PA following this morning’s attempted suicide bombing attack. Elon was referring to the bomber detected near Kedumim on his way into Green Line Israel, who was killed when his bomb exploded. Elon added that it is unacceptable that while Israel relaxes security restrictions on the PA and works to advance on the diplomatic level, the terrorism continues.

JERUSALEM, ISRAEL OCTOBER 15, 2003 - Benny Elon, A Cabinet Member of the Israeli Government, and member of the Israeli Parliament issued the following statement today regarding the bombing of an American convoy in Gaza today, and is available from Jerusalem for further interviews: "Our sympathies today go out to the families of the victims of brutal terrorism, and we share the pain felt by the American peoples. Our prayers and thoughts are with them." "After 10 years of suffering through the Oslo peace process, Wye peace accords and the "road map", the time has come that both we, the...

BEHIND THE HEADLINES Tourism minister angers Sharonby dismissing ‘road map’ to peace By Matthew E. Berger WASHINGTON, May 7 (JTA) — Benny Elon may sit in the Israeli Cabinet, but you wouldn’t know it from the message he brought to Washington this week. While Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has publicly welcomed the “road map” toward Israeli-Palestinian peace — while making clear his concerns about the plan — Elon, the tourism minister, was making the rounds blasting the road map and offering his own, radically different approach. Elon, a leader of the far-right National Union Party, met in Washington this...