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Our World: Trump kicks America’s Palestinian habit [Caroline Glick]
jpost.com ^ | Caroline Glick

Posted on 01/06/2018 7:34:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux

It was probably a coincidence that US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley hailed the Iranian anti-regime protesters and threatened to end US financial support for UNRWA – the UN Palestinian refugee agency – and the Palestinian Authority more generally in the same briefing. But they are integrally linked.

It is no coincidence that Hamas is escalating its rocket attacks on Israel as the Iranian regime confronts the most significant domestic challenge it has ever faced.

As IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot said this week, Iranian assistance to Hamas is steadily rising. Last August, Hamas acknowledged that Iran is its greatest military and financial backer. In 2017, Iran transferred $70 million to the terrorist group.

Eisenkot said that in 2018, Iran intends to transfer $100m. to Hamas.

If Iran is Hamas’s greatest state sponsor, UNRWA is its partner. UNRWA is headquartered in Gaza. It is the UN’s single largest agency. It has more than 11,500 employees in Gaza alone. UNRWA’s annual budget is in excess of $1.2 billion. Several hundred million each year is spent in Gaza.

The US is UNRWA’s largest funder. In 2016, it transferred more than $368m. to UNRWA.

For the past decade, the Center for Near East Policy Research has copiously documented how UNRWA in Gaza is not an independent actor. Rather it is an integral part of Hamas’s regime in Gaza.

UNRWA underwrites the jihadist regime by paying for its school system and its healthcare system, among other things. Since 1999, UNRWA employees have repeatedly and overwhelmingly elected Hamas members to lead their unions.

In every major missile campaign Hamas has carried out against Israel since the group seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, UNRWA facilities have played key roles in its terrorist offensives.

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TOPICS: Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: israel; jerusalem; letshavejerusalem; unrwa; waronterror

1 posted on 01/06/2018 7:34:49 AM PST by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

...Eisenkot said that in 2018, Iran intends to transfer $100m. to Hamas...

In unmarked Obama donated money. And that’s just the amount Eisenkot believes will be transferred to this one terrorist group.


2 posted on 01/06/2018 7:45:35 AM PST by Sasparilla ( I'm Not Tired of Winning.)
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To: Sasparilla

most people are absolutely unaware that there was a sly GHAZI operating from 1600 Pennsylvania using the full might of America against itself while concurrently and simultaneously empowering islam.

AND it does not stop with him being out of office. He embedded a complete infrastructure to continue his agenda irrespective of the “nominal” president.
App his appointees and agents of change were muslims and marxists.

It was their coalition who poised their “DEATH TO AMERICA” poster boy on Americans and started to push their agenda, full throttle on America.


3 posted on 01/06/2018 8:13:45 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: Sasparilla

What’s so hard about not giving money to those who want to kill us? This dynamic is truly baffling. Trump seems to be the only one who believes we shouldn’t finance our own destruction. Why is that?


4 posted on 01/06/2018 8:16:38 AM PST by Spok ("What're you going to believe-me or your own eyes?" -Marx (Groucho))
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To: himno hero

“It was their coalition who poised their “DEATH TO AMERICA” poster boy on Americans and started to push their agenda, full throttle on America.”

I wonder if giving Gaza back to Egypt would be a good solution?


5 posted on 01/06/2018 8:19:25 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Delusional - Adjective, Describes a Democrat or member of the MSM)
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To: RoosterRedux

It’s nice to see the Pakistanis burning the flag and screaming hatred toward President Trump....confirmation that he has made the correct decision. Very good to see him call out the “Palestinians” as well. It’s criminal to send American taxpayer dollars to the enemy.


6 posted on 01/06/2018 8:36:26 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: EQAndyBuzz

Egypt doesn’t want Gaza back. Egyptians hate Palis and have killed hundreds trying to infiltrate into Egypt. Their border with Gaza is as tunnel-ridden as the Gaza border with Israel.

Why is it that Arab nations have never welcomed refugees of their same ethnicity, language, religion, & hatred of Jews, into their own lands?

From 1948 to the present, Arab refugees have been left to fester in camps where they are not a bother to Arab countries’ populations & make perpetual trouble for Israelis, and are now making even worse trouble in Europe.

Hmm...just answered my own question.


7 posted on 01/06/2018 8:36:48 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: EQAndyBuzz

No.
The better solution is to do what the muslims did. Kill the occupants and repopulate.
In the case of Egypt, with time they have almost eradicated all Christians.
Islamonazis understand genocides and halocausts, excepting one of their greatest lies, the denial of the Hitler case.


8 posted on 01/06/2018 9:12:06 AM PST by himno hero (hadnuff)
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To: elcid1970

I asked a Jordanian Soldier once about the “Palestinians”, he laughed and told me they were as Palestinian as he was. The people known as “Palestinians” today, for the most part, are actually ethnic Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians, whose families were kicked out of those countries back in the 70’s and 80’s when these Islamist movement started. Yasser Arafat was born in Cairo.


9 posted on 01/06/2018 9:23:47 AM PST by TallahasseeConservative
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To: TallahasseeConservative

It’s been long said that the “Palestinians” already have their own state, which is known as “Jordan”.


10 posted on 01/06/2018 9:55:56 AM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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11 posted on 01/08/2018 4:48:20 AM PST by SJackson (The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement)
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