Halt Funding

From Reuters:

"U.S. halts funding to U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees"

The United States on Friday cut funding to a U.N. agency that supports Palestinian refugees, saying its business model and fiscal practices were an "irredeemably flawed operation." "The administration has carefully reviewed the issue and determined that the United States will not make additional contributions to UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency)," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. She said the agency's "endlessly and exponentially expanding community of entitled beneficiaries is simply unsustainable and has been in crisis mode for many years." UNRWA says it provides services to about 5 million Palestinian refugees. Most are descendants from individuals who fled Palestine in the 1948 war that led to the creation of the state of Israel.

^ The UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is extremely corrupt and the US is completely in the right to stop all assistance to them until they either get reformed or replaced. The UNRWA was created in 1949 to deal with the refugees from the Israeli War for Independence (in which minutes after announcing their independence Israel was attacked from all sides: the land, the sea and the air by: Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, the Palestinians and the Arab Liberation Army. Luckily Israel won with no outside aid.) That was the start of the Palestinian refugee flight. The second flight came in 1967 with the Six Day War in which Israel removed Jordan from the West Bank and East Jerusalem (reuniting the city) and the Egyptians from the  Gaza Strip. 

For decades the UNRWA helped the Palestinians around the Middle East when the Arab countries (Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria) refused to. The Palestinians living in those countries today are not allowed to be citizens of that country or to work there. The Arabs treat the Palestinians worse than the Israelis do – they (the Arabs) only allow the Palestinians to stay in their country as refugees so they can be used as pawns whenever they want to try and hit Israel (diplomatically or physically.) Then “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” comes into play.

The UNRWA has declared that Palestinian refugee status is inherited by the descendants of refugees. That makes sense in the Palestinian camps in the Arab countries, but not in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. UNRWA uses this tactic in Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Palestinian Authority-controlled West Bank so they can inflate their numbers and get more aid. There is no reason that 70 years (from the 1948 War) or 51 years (from the 1967 War) later there are still refugees.

They have also been accused by different countries and organizations around the world for giving funding to the internationally-recognized terrorist group – Hamas – and that money helps Hamas and the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to dig tunnels into Israel to carry out attacks, to dig tunnels into Egypt to steal or buy weapons and to use those weapons (missiles, bombs, etc.) to attack Israel. UNRWA also gives money to convicted Hamas terrorists in jail and to Hamas “martyrs” - suicide bombers and those killed during attacks on innocent men, women and children.

Any country or organization that continues to give funding to UNRWA is only supporting internationally-recognized terrorists in murdering innocent people. The UNRWA needs to be completely reformed from the top-down or completely replaced. Only then should anyone consider giving funding to them. ^

https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-halts-funding-u-n-agency-palestinian-refugees-203334269.html