Posted on 05/15/2018 7:47:49 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The United States is by far the largest donor of financial aid to the Palestinians, with this assistance touching nearly every aspect of life in the Palestinian Authority. But US President Donald Trump threatened on Tuesday to end this aid to the Palestinians, angered by Ramallah’s refusal to cooperate with the US’s efforts to jump-start Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after he declared Jerusalem the capital of Israel in December.
The Palestinians want East Jerusalem to be the capital of their future state.
Trump tweeted on Tuesday that Washington was paying the PA hundreds of millions of dollars a year “for nothing,” and complained that the US received “no appreciation or respect” in return.
Earlier on Tuesday, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley threatened to cut off funding to the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, UNRWA, if the Palestinians refused to engage in peace negotiations.
Should the threats of the president and Haley come to fruition, what kind of impact could this have on the Palestinians?
Three types of US assistance to the Palestinians According to the US Consulate in Jerusalem’s website, the United States has been the largest donor of aid to the Palestinians since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1994. This aid has totaled around $600 million annually in recent years, and can be roughly divided into three categories.
The first is USAID, the conduit by which the State Department provides aid to countries across the world. The second is the economic support for law and order in the Palestinian Authority. These two categories were perhaps the aid that Trump had in mind in his tweet, though the president did not specify. The third is the US support for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, as addressed by Haley.
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If you think that will work you’re sadly blinded by the mullahs that want the destruction of Israel. In other words, it will never happen even if hell froze over.
Your criticism of that potential would be better directed to president Trump, as he has more to do with it than I do..
I know he’s planning on giving it a try, and he has already done a lot of things that seem totally impossible just two years ago
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