Posted on 01/06/2018 7:44:39 AM PST by Eleutheria5
The United States administration froze a $125 million grant to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the UNs agency for Palestinian refugees, which was supposed to be delivered on January 1, Channel 10 News reported on Friday, citing three Western diplomats.
The amount frozen is one-third of the annual funding the United States provides the organization, according to the report.
The three diplomats, who asked to remain anonymous because of the political sensitivity of the issue, told Channel 10 the grant had been frozen until the end of the reexamination of U.S. aid to the Palestinians, which began in recent days. According to the diplomats, officials in the administration have informed UN officials in the past two days that President Donald Trump is considering cutting this amount completely and could even increase the cut to $180 million, which would be half the total U.S. funding for UNRWA.
The cutting in the UN funding to UNRWA is a U.S. sanction against the organization, which has come under strong criticized from both the United States and Israel, as well as against the Palestinian Arabs, in an attempt to pressure them to renew peace talks with Israel.
News of the freezing of the grant came as a meeting took place in the White House discussing the cutting of aid to the Palestinian Authority and to UNRWA.
The meeting followed Trump's tweets earlier this week in which he expressed doubt over the usefulness of American aid to the Palestinians, given their refusal to resume peace talks with Israel.
The United States is the largest single donor to UNRWA, providing approximately a fourth of the organization's budget.
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“Youre right.... BreitBart has a great article on this .....which explains how outdated this separate refugee organization is and well past out of date.”
We’re wanting to audit the Federal Reserve. We should add a complete independent audit of the UN to the list. Furthermore, I don’t think it serves the interest of this country to have UN Headquarters on our soil, particularly in NYC. We should have several “government programs” of our own to start a process of “disengagement” with the UN at least in terms of the percentage of it’s budget we provide, and to seek an alternative site for it’s HQ. For certain, we should never agree to move it somewhere else and build it a new HQ in this country as has been suggested by “other members” of that body. So much to say, they think the current HQ is old and out dated and they are demanding that we substantially fund a new HQ with our land and money.
INTEREST. The more money we 'borrow', the more interest we have to pay. That is what the Consortium of International Bankers(aka Federal Reserve) LIVES off of, INTEREST. The 'money' we borrow is not even existent. It is not paid back. We are given the permission to 'print' (at our own cost) a certain amount of 'currency'. The more currency we print, the more INTEREST we have to pay.
It's the same reason the International Bankers keep all the nations at war with one another. It makes those nations have to borrow more money, and therefore pay more INTEREST. Those nations who refuse to use the 'Consortium of International Bankers' are made targets of by the nations who do. For instance, Libya.
“Refugees from what? The Six Day War? Thats like me saying I am a refugee from the 1914 Reggio-Messina earthquake.
You too?
Great episode
I am ecstatic to have a POTUS that is willing to use American wealth and power to further our interests. And those of our friends.
Why don’t they go back to their native land of Jordan and demand housing there? They have no claim to Jewish ancestral lands
Well, I am! I have been celebrating so much, that now I have entered AA!! STOP IT DONALD!!
Thank you, Mr. President. It’s a good start.
He talks, he delivers! Love Trump so much. No one is going to call his bluff pretty soon. He doesn’t just say stuff. He means it. The world will learn.
UNICEF also funds terrorism. The lady that knocked on my door collecting for them got a real earful. They caught so much hell in my neighborhood that they don’t come around anymore and it’s been a few years.
GOOD first step. Next, let us leave the cesspool known as the U.N. and save all the money wasted on membership. Let them go rent a shack in Outer Crapistan and spend all their days writing resolutions on how awful Israel and the U.S. are. Meanwhile, we use the money we saved to build the southern WALL, and turn the former U.N.building into senior housing.
I used to carry a collection can for that when I went Trick or Treating on Halloween, back in simpler times more than fifty years ago, when everyone believed UNICEF were good guys.
He has to be. Every dunce in the world is in confederacy against him.
What you said.
Now place the Muslim Brotherhood on the US International Terrorist Organization list.
This money disguised as “aid” ends up buying construction materials to build tunnels under the Israeli border with Gaza, and to buy weapons on the black market.
They haven’t done that yet? It was long overdue on 21/1/17.
Yep, that was back when UNICEF wasn’t just a front-group for terrorists and the UN wasn’t infected by communists, terrorist-sympathizers, and other undesirables.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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