[ April 24, 2024 ]
The United States withheld a payment of $65 million to a U.N. agency dedicated to providing financial aid for “Palestinians,” the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA.
The White House announced it was still sending a payment of $60 million to the agency.
But the other half is being withheld “for future consideration,” a letter from the United States to UNRWA read.
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The decision outraged the likes of Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas, who issued a scathing statement against President Donald Trump over the weekend, calling for his “house to be destroyed,” the Jerusalem Post reported.
“Damn your money,” Abbas also said.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWpO9gyprv4
From the Jerusalem Post:
The Trump administration informed the UN Relief and Works Agency on Tuesday that it was cutting tens of millions of dollars in aid to the organization, amid an escalating diplomatic crisis between Washington and Ramallah, a US official told The Jerusalem Post.
President Donald Trump heeded the advice of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, Secretary of Defense James Mattis and National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster – in addition to that of the Israeli government – and agreed to transfer $60 million to the UN body for now, as opposed to cutting all funding outright. But the remaining pledge of $65m. has been withheld “for future consideration,” according to a letter sent to the agency.
While the policy decision came out of the State Department, which faced a UN dues payment this week, the question of how to proceed became an interagency debate among Trump’s top foreign policy staff and involved the president himself. Only one of those figures – Nikki Haley, Trump’s ambassador to the UN – advocated for a full and immediate aid cut.UNRWA is a unique international body originally set up to assist hundreds of thousands of refugees displaced by the Arab war against the establishment of the State of Israel. Now, 70 years later, the organization offers aid the descendants of those refugees, numbering in the millions.
Informing UNRWA of its decision, the Trump administration called for a “fundamental reexamination” of the agency.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed alarm at the consequences of such a move. “I’m very concerned,” he told reporters on Tuesday.
A dramatic slashing of US aid to UNRWA is yet another blow to the Trump administration’s fast-deteriorating relationship with the Palestinian Authority, after the White House within the span of months threatened to shut the PLO’s offices in Washington for its refusal to hold peace talks with Israel; recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and vowed to move the US Embassy there; declared the Western Wall as presumed Israeli territory in any final-status negotiations; condemned a PA program that compensates the families of Palestinian terrorists and their families; left UNESCO; kept quiet on Israeli settlement growth relative to prior administrations; and taunted PA leadership with sweeping aid cuts via Twitter.
PLO Executive Committee Member Mustafa Barghouti accused Trump of trying “to liquidate the rights of Palestinian refugees.”
“This is not merely a decision to cut money. This is a political decision that is aiming to liquidate the rights of the Palestinian refugees,” Barghouti told the Post in a phone call, adding that “it will not affect the determination of the Palestinians to keep the issue of refugees alive.”
Barghouti also said the international community has “an obligation to find an alternative to the funding” Trump cut to UNRWA.
Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said on Tuesday: “UNRWA has proven time and again to be an agency that misuses the humanitarian aid of the international community and instead supports anti-Israel propaganda, perpetuates the plight of Palestinian refugees and encourages hate.
“Just over the last year alone, UNRWA officials were elected to the leadership of Hamas in the Gaza Strip, UNRWA schools denied the existence of Israel, and terror tunnels were dug under UNRWA facilities. It is time for this absurdity to end and for humanitarian funds to be directed toward their intended purpose – the welfare of refugees,” the ambassador said.
PA President Mahmoud Abbas effectively threw in the towel over the weekend, offering a scathing speech targeting the US administration generally and Trump personally by dismissing their peace effort and calling for his “house to be destroyed.”
“Damn your money!” Abbas declared.
Israeli politicians and Jewish American groups decried the speech as a racist diatribe that revealed Abbas’s true colors. The speech included conspiracy theories and fundamental questioning of the existence and justification for a Jewish state.
But the US “peace team,” tasked with negotiating a comprehensive agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, declined to respond. That team was not involved in the UNRWA decision, although its members – Jared Kushner, White House adviser; Jason Greenblatt, special representative for international negotiations; and David Friedman, US ambassador to Israel – understand the consequences that any cut of Palestinian aid will have on their effort.
Greenblatt, for one, has strongly advocated for the economic revitalization of the Gaza Strip, which receives the lion’s share of UNRWA aid.
Despite acknowledging a crisis of trust with the PA, the White House team still plans to proceed with the release of detailed policy proposals addressing the thorniest sticking points in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Senior administration officials told the Post that their critics will be surprised by its contents, which they expect will appeal to Palestinians and draw them back to the table.
“We still want to continue to have conversations and have a peace process,” one US official said.
The officials declined to offer a timeline for the release of their plan.
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59 Comments
6 years ago
It is OUR money and we have the final say on whom we give it to
Shove off, Abbas !
6 years ago
Trump should have cut the lot, too much aid going to many countries stopping them from getting their countries to fix their own problems
Aid is a curse when not a disaster.
Trump also needs to bring down the banks that cause half the world problems, andi trade is another when countries sold out from within
6 years ago
Reply to
Thorsten
We also have the wealth of countries that fund wars. Never been convicted.
Search bankers who helped Hitler, and also corporations, even find on YouTube.
Then those that funded Japan pre WW1 like Jacob Schiff, even the Russian Revolution and many big names
Great Fire Of Smyrna, where battleships of major navies stood by and watched as Muslims killed raped and did nothing except take out their citizens, but their to protect oil and trade. Look up who owned the oil
6 years ago
President of action Trump 🙂 withelds protection money ‘jizyah’ https://quran.com/9/29 of 65 million U.S.(!!) dollars
-> next country will be Pakistan
6 years ago
Will that put a dent into the jihadi death benefits?
6 years ago
Reply to
Halal Bacon
I wonder if they will dip into their own funds to pay the death benefits? I doubt it, they are not going to spend their own money I’ll bet.
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
Most of the Arab states are also abandoning the Palis
– in times of war, choose the strong horse
– and in the Iran conflict, Israel is the strong horse
6 years ago
Reply to
Steve Kalmbach
They’re not just “death benefits.”
Imprisoned Arabs are also paid a generous stipend, so long as they have injured of killed Jews.
If the Americans, or the Israelis for that matter were truly serious, they would see to it that all such payments were stopped – and that convicted murderers were executed.
6 years ago
Reply to
Michael Garfinkel
Exactly, ALL payments stopped! Heck they are crying and furious, over getting half of the total, how messed up is THAT!
6 years ago
Money for murderers….. They use their children as shields, and allow sex with animals and children. Satan’s slime
6 years ago
Reply to
dad1927
Oh, did you say sex with animals and children?? Here’s the evidence of that!
Boy aged 14 arrested after being accused by neighbour of raping his pet chicken to death
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boy-aged-14-arrested-after-11529108
FIFTEEN Muslim teens in Morocco have been treated for rabies after raping an infected local donkey
https://pamelageller.com/2017/10/muslim-teens-rape-rabid-donkey.html/
Muslim Migrant Arrested for Raping Pony in German Kid’s Zoo
https://pamelageller.com/2017/11/musm-rapes-pony.html/
That should be enough to understand these “people”…
As for having sex with CHILDREN, this should qualify enough….
Prominent Muslim imam: Fathers can marry their own daughters
https://pamelageller.com/2017/11/imam-muslms-can-mary-their-daughters.html/
Here’s what was in, that Pamela Geller report:
Child marriage rife in Islam (due to the example of Mohammad, marrying Aisha when she was 6 and consummating when she was 9 – he was in his 50s at the time).
(Nothing we didn’t already know, and have known for quite awhile now)
And how about sex with dead people…(on youtube)
Islamic Teachings about Necrophilia (Sex with Dead Ones) (It’s an ok talk, but I wish he would give more evidence with news articles, and more koran verses for what he says.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiFTjLw8Ing&feature=youtu.be
And, an intelligent person put all this together, and I took it, (I would say “peace be onto him”, lol, BUT…think I’ll wish that I could thank them for it).
Here’s some verses of Mohammed, himself, having sex with even dead people, and you know that muslims want to copy EVERYTHING that HE DID, because he was such a PERFECT man! (Not!)
— Muhammad’s marriage to 6yr old Aisha-(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 58, Number 234 and 236).
— Aisha cleans Muhammad’s semen stains-(Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 4, Number 229-233),
— Muhammad fondling Aisha during her ‘Menses’- (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 6, Number 298-300, Sunan Abu Dawud, Book 1, Number 0270)
— Muhammad liked to have intercourse with Aisha and his other wives when they were menstruating (Sahih Muslim, Book 003, Number 0577-0579),
— He also loved to recite the Quran when his wives were in Menses while lying between their legs!-(Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 1, Book 6, Number 296), (Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 639)
— Muhammad married his adopted Son’s wife called ‘Zaynab’ after lusting for her and then banned Adoption in Islam- (Surah 33:37,Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 6, Book 60, Number 305, Sahih Muslim, Book 008, Number 3330, Sahih al-Bukhari, Volume 9, Book 93, Number 516,The History of Al-Tabari: The Victory of Islam, translated by Michael Fishbein, 1997], Volume VIII, pp. 2-3)
— Muhammad having sex with his dead Aunt in the Grave-( “Kanz Al Umal” (The Treasure of the Workers, by Ali Ibn Husam Aldin, commonly known as Al-Mutaki Al-Hindi. He based his book on the hadiths and sayings listed in “Al-Jami Al-Saghir,” written by Jalal ul-Din Al-Suyuti.)
— ‘I (Muhammad) put on her my shirt that she may wear the clothes of heaven, and I slept with her in her coffin (grave) that I may lessen the pressure of the grave. She was the best of Allah’s creatures to me after Abu Talib’… The prophet was referring to Fatima , the mother of Ali. “The Arabic word used here for slept is “Id’tajat,” and literally means “lay down” with her. It is often used to mean, “Lay down to have sex.”
— Muhammad and the Quran sanctioned sex with your wives and ‘married’ slave girls-(Quran – 70:22-30, 23:5,6, 4:24, 33:50), — Muhammad speaks of sex with Slave Girls- (Sahih Bukhari – Volume 3, #432, Volume 9, #506, Volume 5, #637, Sahih Muslim, Volume 2, #3371)
— Muhammad disagreed with ‘coitus interruptus’ with slave girls- he supported RAPE.
— Muhammad forces a 17 yr old Jewish girl called Safiyyah to marry him and rapes her on the same day her husband and family are killed in the battle of Khaibar (Sahih Al-Bukhari, Volume 5, Book 59, Number 522, Volume 1, Book 8, Number 367).
— Al Tabari reported in his (‘The History of al-Tabari: The Victory of Islam’, Translated by Michael Fishbein) that even some of Muhammad’s wives and companions were shocked that he forced Safiyyah to marry him after beheading her husband, brother and father.
D
6 years ago
Track down his Swiss bank accounts and seize them.
6 years ago
CUT ALL MUSLIM MONEY!
They are our ememies and put it towards our border WALL!
6 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Trump said he will cut all Pali money
– if he can’t get a deal
– his opening salvo was the US Embassy move
– Greenblatt and Friedman are two very smart guys
6 years ago
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6 years ago
I had fond hopes for Secretary of Defense James Mattis, but I expected this out of H.R. “Kiss a koran” McMaster and Rex “Global Climate Change” Tillerson. There is no earthly reason that the entire amount, as recommended by Ambassador Haley, should not have been withheld. They don’t need another beach front palace … in the ayrahb controlled portion of what is, rightfully, Israel.
6 years ago
Reply to
Achmed Mohammedan
I agree! The entire amount should have been withheld. I can’t stand that Tillerson’s nickname is “T-Rex.” For what reason? He’s anything but that, except maybe for the Globalist.
6 years ago
Reply to
Tearlag
Tillerson is living proof, that Big Oil is behind the global climate change scam. Big Oil has been the largest contributor to “research” grants to those that worship the Great Hockey Stick.
6 years ago
Reply to
joanofark06
I truly had high hopes for the current administration. One year in … unless things change, drastically and swiftly … one more time that we’ve been sold out.
6 years ago
everyday is like christmas
6 years ago
Ouch! More about why the U.S. withholds $65 million in Palestinian aid
http://www.foreigndesknews.com/news/politics/u-s-withholds-65-million/
– the cutbacks were to the mainly-bogus U.N. agency that serves the Palestinians (UNRWA).
– in the last Gaza war [2014], UNRWA let the Hamas terrorists hide in UNRWA hospitals
– and store weapons there
– the Palis spend $275+ million per year paying imprisoned Pali terrorists and deceased terrorist families
– Trump has threatened to cut $1+ billion from Pali funding
– Netanyahu thinks that’s a good idea
6 years ago
Breaking: Abbas Threatens War Over US Embassy Move, No One Notices the Difference
https://www.debka.com/mivzak/160823/
– ho hum…
6 years ago
“Muslims are human beings… ”
Human beings, including the following, were hanged as criminals in October 1946 at Nuremberg: Joachim von Ribbentrop, Alfred Rosenberg, Fritz Sauckel, Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Hans Frank, Wilhelm Frick, Alfred Jodl, Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Wilhelm Keitel.
All they ever wanted was to exterminate Jews, gypsies, homosexuals, blacks and Christian clergy among other groups. They publicly stated that the Nazi state intended to conquer the world, loot everything of value, murder all who opposed them and make slaves of everyone else.
In what way do Islamic goals differ? There is no difference, none whatsoever.
Everywhere Muslims go, they turn their refuge into a new battleground. If Muslims want to protect their “innocents” it’s their responsibility to remove them from harm’s way. Even the Nazis are morally superior to Muslims in that they never used their children as human shields and suicide bombers.
6 years ago
Reply to
Daniel FX Dravot
Cannot recall any instances where Nazis moved to another nation .. and went on full blown welfare … Food, clothing, and shelter … not to mention health care and monthly cash stipends …. That’s a new trick.
6 years ago
Reply to
J Ian
Yes, probably time for some moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures) to get together a crew …and just like they did with the Zoroastrians in Persia, tie my dog (at least one of them) and I to a pole … and beat us both to death for not paying the jizya.
6 years ago
Reply to
Larenzo1
To the victor go the spoils. With moslems, they’re victors without having to conquer.
6 years ago
There are no Palestinians, only Arabs.
They burn our flag, but never our money.
We owe them nothing and that’s what we should give them.
“We give them money – but are they grateful?
No, they’re spiteful and they’re hateful
They don’t respect us – so let’s surprise them
We’ll drop the big one and pulverize them…”
A tip of the Glengarry to Randy Newman’s “Political Science”
6 years ago
Breaking: Trump Toughens Executive Order on M.E. Terrorism
http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/notice-regarding-continuation-national-emergency-respect-terrorists-threaten-disrupt-middle-east-peace-process/
Trump Reviews Executive Order on Foreign Terrorist Entry
http://www.dhs.gov/publication/executive-order-13780-protecting-nation-foreign-terrorist-entry-united-states-initial
6 years ago
There should not be a cent given to any muslim organization as they are totally unaccountable for it, sharia clearly states that a portion of all taxes is to be used for aggressive jihad against neighbouring nations. There is no point in financing terrorism.
6 years ago
Sympathy for Ahed Tamimi is not https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/1/16/sympathy-for-ahed-tamimi-is-not-enough
6 years ago
“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed alarm at the consequences of such a move. “I’m very concerned”. No doubt, the scam is over, money that was supposed to help the residents of gaza has been used to purchase military equipment to attack Israel with. The lives of the residents of gaza will be significantly improved with less warfare going on in their midst.
“PLO Executive Committee Member Mustafa Barghouti accused Trump of trying “to liquidate the rights of Palestinian refugees”. Considering those rights were interpreted mean the right to attack Israel, it is a good thing to eliminate them.
Barghouti also said the international community has “an obligation to find an alternative to the funding” Trump cut to UNRWA”. And why is that? By what obligation is anyone responsible for the destruction palestinians have wrought on themselves? How many times must gaza be rebuilt, only to have the palestinians destroy it themselves?
D
6 years ago
Reply to
Mahou Shoujo
I’m surprised the illustrious boy king hasn’t leapt in with our tax dollars to fill this horribly egregious deficit. What an opportunity to proclaim yet again his compassion for victims in general, and the horrors of white supremacy and the strength to be found in diversity ( did I leave anything out ). The wind-up puppet must be nervous about NAFTA negotiations to pass this one up. If he had a brain or a conscience, I would say that perhaps he’s still reeling from the ” hijab gate ” incident to stick his neck out, but this one couldn’t spell shame much less feel it ( runs in the family ). Thankfully there is finally some integrity in the WH to stand up to the obvious and say ” enough, we’re not going to take this anymore “. Nikki Halely was right about this one though, all funding should have been cut, but at least it’s a start and hopefully a step to be followed by another step and another… Go Trump.
6 years ago
No worries, like a good Islamist whore, he’ll just go sucking some islamic royal dicks in the persian gulf states, and terrorism money will keep flowing.
6 years ago
He did! Also he shipped Jews and others designated undesirables to extermination camps.
6 years ago
“UNRWA finances Christian outreach and conversion efforts leading to greater understanding. The UN strongly endorses proselytizing and conversion to the Judaeo/Christian belief system as way of spreading peace and prosperity.” — (fictional release)
— IF anyone were to read that as an actual statement from the UN, they’d go insane. “How dare they suggest that!”
Yet, the UN eagerly supports murder and mayhem disguised as “the Religion of Peace”. They claim that their murderous rampage throughout the world is to convert people to their religion.
To cut off and contain the terrorist financing and money laundering networks, that take OUR money and use it destroy OUR hopes for peace, should only be the beginning.
6 years ago
Cry baby Abbas is upset because he isn’t getting his allowances. Poppa Trump is treating Abbas like an ungreatful, foolish, spastic child and about time too.
Take note muslim tools.
I remember President Kennedy smacking down the Soviet Union and Khrushchev started his rant by banging his shoe on a desk. Something about the Cuban Missile Crisis.
6 years ago
“The White House announced it was still sending a payment of $60 million to the agency.”
“Damn your money!” Abbas declared.
No! Half of it is still yours, so….Damn YOUR money!!
6 years ago
FK Abbas! Why did he accept our money all these years? Now he says damn the money when Trump isn’t going to give it to him.
6 years ago
Why do they even need aid from us? Don’t all those oil rich Arab countries give them enough? It’s because none of those Arab countries want them.
6 years ago
I thought the US fought the Barbery Wars because the US did not want to pay ransom and extortion money to crazy Muslim coons?
See:
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_pirates
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Barbary_War
— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Barbary_War
I thought it was against US law for the US government to be paying bribes, ransom, tribute or extortion money to another government?
“The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality, today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese.” – PLO leader Zuheir Mohsen, interview in the Dutch newspaper Trouw, March 1977.
— https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11401/palestinian-people
99 Percent of “Palestine Refugees” Are Fake
— http://www.meforum.org/7149/99-of-palestine-refugees-are-fake?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=fd54339206-pipes_mef_2018_01_10&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-fd54339206-33929733&goal=0_086cfd423c-fd54339206-33929733
Everything about the Palestinians is fake as it is a useful word to clothe a Communist movement to destroy capitalist Israel in the words of Arab nationalism and Islam. Even Yasser Arafat is not “Palestinian” because he was born in Cairo and is Egyptian. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat. A Palestinian State did not exist before the creation of Israel in 1948 as that area was part of the Ottoman Empire (now Turkey) then a British Protectorate after the First World War.
6 years ago
AND Rex Tillerson!
6 years ago
Well, if “Damn your money” is the response, don’t give any. Put the other half into our own country.
6 years ago
If they curse us and wish harm on us, cut them off completely. That goes for all of those on our aid list. Not much point sending cash to our enemies.
6 years ago
This scum bag needs to be DEAD…
6 years ago
No. We won’t “damn” our money. We’ll just keep it. Trump shouldn’t have given them anything.
6 years ago
Every people MUST learn to stand on their own two feet without any outside aid.
