Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees

WAPO ^ | 8/30/2018 | Karen Deyoung

[bitt]

The Trump administration has decided to cancel all U.S. funding of the United Nations aid program for Palestinian refugees, part of its determination to put its money where its policy is as it seeks a recalculation of U.S. foreign aid spending and prepares its own Israeli-Palestinian peace plan.

In an announcement to be made within the next several weeks, the administration plans to voice its disapproval of the way the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, spends the funds and to call for a sharp reduction in the number of Palestinians recognized as refugees, dropping it from more than 5 million, including descendants, to fewer than a tenth of that number, or those still alive from when the agency was created seven decades ago, according to officials familiar with the decision.

[Joe Boucher]

We give aid to countries who turn atound and hate our guts.
Give aid Only to those who support us.

[Jimmy Valentine]

Looks last me maybe Abbas will have to sell his jet

[wastedyears]

I love this guy.

[trebb]

Good that Trump is not afraid to do what’s right.

Another part of the beauty of what he does that keeps all the attacks coming from all directions is that they water down some of the news that would really piss them off but isn't part of the current "Russia/Collusion/Obstruction" meme...

[ealgeone]

WINNING NEVER GETS OLD!

[C210N]

Where else in the world is a refugee status passed on to the children & grandkids?

That's easily answered: Right here in the US.

By leftists demanding reparations.

[Basket_of_Deplorables]

Winning!!!

[SJackson]

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We're not talking much money. Europe can step up and support them.

[pangaea6]

Not to worry PLO, a liberal judge will say Trump cant stop payments.

[veracious]

HalleluYah! Yah is great, Yah is good.

[BTerclinger]

more winning
erev Shabbos

[BTerclinger]

LOL!

[Agatsu77]

It’s about damn time!

[Agatsu77]

Screw the Washington Post!!!

[Innovative]

Excellent!

Make America and the World Great Again!

[firebrand]

There are about a thousand who are original “refugees” from 1948-49, according to Amir Tsarfati. The Palestinians claim there are 850,000. Even Israel says 500,000, but both are counting offspring and probably others who were never in Israel to begin with.

By the way, they weren’t even real refugees in my opinion. They were told to get out of Israel temporarily and then as soon as Israel was defeated, they would get to go back. They were led out by the Pied Piper.

[firebrand]

And less money to provide lucrative jobs for the family members of terrorists.

[HollyB]

Wowza!!

[HollyB]

Amen!

[golux]

Well said. I met a beautiful young lady not long ago in a fancy hotel lobby: she was on her way to matriculate at a (top 5 US University,) identified immediately as a Palestinian, and wanted to tell me about her and her peoples' struggle.


Having lived in Israel I was interested to know where she was from - what her story was - etc. Finally, it was revealed as she stared at the floor, and then at me, defiantly, that neither she nor her parents or family had anything to do with "Palestine:" They merely identified as "Palestinian." This is enough to get you to replace just about any hard-working American at a top University.