The US has finalized its aid freeze on the UN Palestinian refugee agency, the Review and Works Agency (UNRWA), confirming they will withhold over half of the $125 million pledged to the organization.
The US was expected to deliver the $125 million earlier this month, but didn’t. Officials later denied that the cut was finalized yet, but ultimately withheld $65 million, sending the remaining $60 million to the organization.
The move was part of President Trump’s promise to retaliate against the Palestinians for getting “no appreciation or respect.” There has, however, been concern that cuts to the UNRWA would impact Israel more than the Palestinians, as it’s going to fuel unrest within the occupied territories that the Israelis will be stuck dealing with.
US officials told the press the cuts are a message to the UN to change the way the UNRWA operates, though as is so often the case with US anger at such agencies, they offered no specifics on what changes they are actually demanding.
Trump has in general wanted the Palestinians to express gratitude for his position on the peace deal, and to accept his declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. That clearly isn’t going to happen, so US moves against them are likely to continue.
So these folks were cleansed from Palestine by the Israeli Irgun/Lehi terrorists as early as 1947 and the USA and the modern equivalent of Irgun the Likud, still will not support their right to return.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Palestinian_exodus
I guess this is just an additional $65 million for Israeli “AID”??
I’m sure that the Palestinians will be just as happy to receive aid and support from, oh, Russia or China or maybe even Iran. It would be sweet if one of those nations was offered some choice real estate for a base or a consulate- and it would force Israel to either break with Palestine altogether or declare that it’s Israel, making all those Palestinians Israeli citizens.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see an aid ship to Gaza escorted by Russian warships?
Won’t happen.
Interesting notion.
If our Government can’t see that America is on the losing side (morally) of this conflict, then it is stupid as well as corrupt.
A civilized country, Belgium, stepped in today to give $23 million for the UN Palestinian fund. Hopefully other civilized and s**thole nations will step in with much needed aid.
As well as all the rest of the disastrous policies continued from his predecessors, POTUSTRUMPET shows his vindictive smallmindedness in this callous action.
So America sends 60 million dollars and y’all are bitching? I’m an American citizen and I’ll probably never see 1 million much less 60 million. I wish someone would send me some hardworking American citizen taxpayer 💰 money.
About time to stop the illegal siphoning of US tax dollars for months stipends to convicted Palestinian terrorist.
“image of starving and malnourished Palestinians”
– only in your imagination.
Fact:
In the Gaza Strip, a high proportion of people suffer from obesity. “Only 18% to 25% of the Strip’s residents have a normal weight,” he said. “The rest are suffering from obesity because of the nature of our life pattern, in addition to the unbalanced social lifestyle, bad eating habits, food traditions and dessert consumption.”
He added, “Such a large proportion is the result of common diseases such as diabetes, stress, cancer and rheumatism. If, for example, the proportion of patients with high blood pressure is 30% of the population, know that 97% of them are due to obesity and the rest are due to accidental causes.” https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/b711f15ad877044de86b6bef80e20f6f095abd05e7291a76bf7893d247fe02f2.jpg