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First she refers to \"the occupation.\"

By emphasizing \"country of nationality or habitual residence,\" UNHCR clearly intends to exclude the transients embraced by UNRWA's definition - people who had only recently arrived in Palestine from neighboring Arab countries in search of work. Moreover, while UNHCR seeks to prevent expansion of its definition in ways that would encourage its improper use for political ends, UNRWA has done just the opposite: Not only has it declined to remove the status of refugee from people who no longer fit the original description, such as the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians granted full citizenship by Jordan, but it indefinitely confers refugee status on refugees' descendants. Instead, UNRWA has followed a policy of reinforcing refugees' collective attachments to their places of origin. A flagrant example of this policy is the manner in which UNRWA has thwarted offers to Palestinian refugees of permanent housing outside refugee camps. The UN Refugee Convention established international standards with respect to refugees. In its deviation from these it is clear that UNRWA is not only unhelpful to the Palestinian refugee issue, but actually detrimental. Those nations interested in finding a genuine, viable solution to the Palestinian refugee problem, a sine qua non for peace in the Middle East, should be encouraged to work toward the termination of UNRWA's mandate and, in its stead, the application of UNHCR policies to the Palestinian refugee issue.

I understand it is not an independent analysis of Israeli happenings, but rather a review of a CBC program in which Adrienne Arsenault reported on \"a vociferous minority of settlers desperate to stop the disengagement.\" Nonetheless, I am deeply unsettled. Both the uncritical tone of [Paul Michaels]' review and the very title of the column convey to your readers the very clear impression that now we have the facts: there is some minority of the settlers out to kill Prime Minister [Ariel Sharon].

Nowhere is \"protection\"? in the political sense part of the UNRWA mandate; UNRWA was originally charged with providing direct relief and work programs, and this was later expanded to include education. [...] even if political protection had been mandated, it would not warrant misrepresentations of fact, let alone incitement.

READERS without historical background are likely to take at face value a political distortion of the truth that has found its way into Edward Said's review of Pandaenoniunm Ethnicity in International Politics, by Daniel Patrick Moynihan (Book World, Feb. 21).