[Eleutheria5]

Translation of headline: If you don't fund UNRWA, regional stability might result. Then what'll we do?

[butlerweave]

stability , stability , what stability ?

[BenLurkin]

The UN itself is a source of instability there and elsewhere.

[RetiredTexasVet]

Well things couldn’t get that much worse other than the terrorists may be a little thinner and have to use smaller explosive vests and the relatives of the jihadists may have to cut back on the caviar and wine celebrations.

[ASA Vet]

U.S. decision to cut the funding it provides to the organization by half.

Please President Trump, don't do half measures. Double the cut.

[dennisw]

UNRWA is a huge employment agency for Palestinians. Generations of families are embedded in there doing useless nothing work. This is why the Paleos don’t want UNWAR funding cut.

[umgud]

We need to cut all their funding, not just half.

[xp38]

The funding of certain holes in this world is under review.

[Fungi]

Stability? Nonsense. The only thing threatening “stability” is the false religion named Islam and its phony practitioners and phony Palestinians which are nothing more than southern Syrian Arabs going by another name. Stop the lies.

[existentially_kuffer]

“The reduced contribution also impacts regional security at a time when the Middle East faces multiple risks and threats, notably that of further radicalization,” he warned.

Stupid logic. How many times have we been told is is peace?

[blueplum]

Rather than ‘threaten’, cutting the funding is more likely to be seen in the future as “one of the most successful and innovative human development endeavors in the Middle East,”... Put an end to UN powerquest financing of victimhood and fostering environments where terrorism becomes a profit center/reward for families.

[trebb]

If they think money will add stability, they are free to up their own payments.....

[SJackson]

Middle East and terrorism, occasional political and Jewish issues Ping List. High Volume

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...threatens one of the most successful and innovative human development endeavors in the Middle East," said UNRWA Commissioner-General Pierre Krahenbuhl in a statement

He's right, the long term maintainance of a terror infrastructure is a success to be proud of if you're a supporter of terror. Though by most non terrorist standards, not a accomplishment of human development.