Posted on 09/01/2018 10:22:11 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The State Department officially announced on Friday that the United States is ending its funding to UNRWA, the UN agency for “Palestinian refugees”.
“The Administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.
“When we made a U.S. contribution of $60 million in January, we made it clear that the United States was no longer willing to shoulder the very disproportionate share of the burden of UNRWA's costs that we had assumed for many years. Several countries, including Jordan, Egypt, Sweden, Qatar, and the UAE have shown leadership in addressing this problem, but the overall international response has not been sufficient,” she added.
“Beyond the budget gap itself and failure to mobilize adequate and appropriate burden sharing, the fundamental business model and fiscal practices that have marked UNRWA for years - tied to UNRWA's endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries - is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years. The United States will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation,” the statement continued.
“We are very mindful of and deeply concerned regarding the impact upon innocent Palestinians, especially school children, of the failure of UNRWA and key members of the regional and international donor community to reform and reset the UNRWA way of doing business....
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That story also said that the White House is expected to take the Palestinian Authority's insistence on the "Right of Return" for Arabs off the negotiating table and insist the organization slash the number of Arabs recognized as refugees. The State Department statement made no mention of this.
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(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/429600
PA official: Canceling aid to UNRWA threatens peace
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/251421
I’m sure a federal judge in Podunk, Washington will block this.
Wouldn’t surprise me. Why not just wipe their asses on the Constitution and have done.
Another in a long list of wins!!!!!
Bravo!
Great news!
Screw Abbas and the rest of them too
Yippee! Funding hostile terrorists and enemies was never a Success Strategy
Next on the list of anti-American organizations to be defunded, how ‘bout the Democrat (Left) Party? Seems consistent...
There is no such thing as innocent murdering koranimal savages.
Some are just younger than others, but can and do kill as efficiently...
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