President Trump is of a mind to cut aid to the Palestinians, but with very limited direct aid to choose from, the growing expectation is that he may instead defund the UNRWA, which provides relief for Palestinian refugees, as a more indirect way of spiting them.
The US is the largest funder of the UNRWA, but Israeli analysts are warning that defunding the agency, and by extension impacting aid to Palestinians, may end up costing Israel at least as much, if not more.
That’s because the UNRWA’s aid within Israeli-occupied Palestine is mostly seen in the form of education and healthcare, and cuts to those very visible sectors would likely fuel substantial new unrest, which Israeli security forces would be tasked with dealing with.
And that’s the best-case scenario, really. Under international law, the occupying force is obliged to provide basic services to the occupied people, and Israel has long avoided that because of the UNRWA and the Palestinian Authority providing such services.
It is this very reason that the major Israeli lobbies have long pushed Congress to keep UNRWA funded, seeing the aid as effectively being aid to Israel in keeping occupied Palestine in a state short of full-scale collapse.
Americans really over estimate the effect of their AID. If they think Palestinians are going to roll over and submit to segregation, subjugation and colonization by the Israeli Likud and other vermin presently controlling Israel, Americans are misinformed.
The occupation is the result of the Jordanian/Palestinian attack against Israel. (Remember that in 1948 the West Bank Palestinians asked for & were granted union with Jordan.)
If Israel were to end the occupation of the West Bank, Palestinians would fire rockets from the West Bank just as they fired rockets from Gaza after Israel pulled out of Gaza.
Good.
Half the time you post that it’s not an occupation. The other half of the time you post that the occupation is justified.
You need to either make up your mind, or get the people feeding you your lines to make up theirs.
Soooo Israel condemns the UN for being anti-semitic, but gladly accepts their support in caring for their Palestinian wards? One would think Israel would simply withdraw from the UN if that organization is so unhelpful and bigoted toward them. That’s one way around all those pesky resolutions against them that Tel Aviv routinely ignores. (Added Bonus: we- the US- is relieved of the burden of having to go to bat for them every time they screw up. Yay team.)
The UN criticized only one country for its treatment of women. It was not Saudi Arabia where women were not allowed to drive. It was not Egypt or Iraq or Yemen where girls suffer from female genital mutilation. It was not Palestine or Jordan or Iran where women are subjected to honor killings. It was Israel – a country that has had a female prime minister & female fighter pilots.
Yes Israel, that practices forced sterilization on the inferior races.
THAT Israel.
Ending this aid is the correct thing to do. Ending all foreign aid is the correct thing to do. No US tax money should be sent overseas for any reason.
Wait! I didn’t know about this.
So the Israelis have gotten us to pick up theirs as well as the Palestinian’s bills ???
Foreign aid is nothing but bribery money to foreign leaders to do our bidding. The money doesn’t filter down to the people.
Hey, here’s an idea: Instead of dropping by Antiwar.com once every 30-60 days to spam this or that article with exactly the same 300 words you spammed a different article with 30-60 days ago, why not actually participate in the discussion? It’s getting more boring than [insert random female name and image here] telling us how she makes $97 an hour working online for Google.
A good idea can be repeated and used indefinitely.
I believe someone else will receive the Nobel Prize for its implementation.
So why not present new and better arguments for it as time goes on instead of just repeatedly spamming it in various places?
Every nation must live on its own land, be independent and provide for itself with everything necessary. Additional arguments are superfluous.