This is long overdue. Only among the “Palestinians” is “refugee” status passed down to children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Millions of people were displaced after World War II, but they moved elsewhere and got on with their lives. Not the “Palestinians,” because they were and are a weapon of the jihad.
“US ends all funding to UN agency for Palestinian refugees,” by Clare Foran and Elise Labott, CNN, September 1, 2018:
Washington (CNN)The United States is ending all funding to the United Nations agency tasked with supporting Palestinian refugees, the US State Department said Friday, describing the body as “irredeemably flawed.”
The United States has long been the biggest single donor to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, known as UNRWA, donating more than $350 million to the agency in 2017.
In January this year, the United States said it would withhold $65 million, from an initial installment of $125 million it was expected to hand over to UNRWA at the start of the year. The US said it wanted UNRWA to reform and believed other countries should increase the amounts they contributed to the agency.
“When we made a US 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,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement Friday.
“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.”
Nauert criticized the agency’s business model and fiscal practices as “unsustainable” and having been in “crisis mode” for many years.
“The United States will no longer commit further funding to this irredeemably flawed operation,” she said. “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.”…
infidel numero uno says
Excellent, but years late.
George says
No, it isn’t. Hamas depends on a sustained contribution. They will wither and die,.
Guy Forester says
Don’t worry, the unelected eurocrats and Canada will no doubt show how enlightened they are and how deplorable we are by shoving taxpayers money at the PLO, Hamas, Hezbollah, PA, Fatah, and the rest of that den of thieves.
After all, you cannot waste money on things like your home country’s defense. It is up to the US to save their cookies from the fire like we did in 1917-18 and 41-45. Meanwhile the eurocrats and Canadense need to send money to Abbas and similar thieves to keep their Swiss chalets in good repair and the mistresses well fed. Oh, and let us not forget ample supplies of RPG’s and katyushas. After all, the Russians and NK all need some foreign exchange to keep their economies afloat too.
Grizzly says
Yeah, Trudeau’s an ass. But please don’t lump all us Canadians in there. We’re working hard to rid the land of Trudeau & the Liberals… hopefully by this time next year. That is if Trudeau doesn’t hand us all over to Islam before then.
Richard Cox says
Absolutely long over due, just buying the bullets that they are shooting back at us
Buraq says
Trump is nothing short of a revelation! The US spent years, pointlessly sacrificing the lives of its young people in the armed services to protect basic standards of human behavior around the world. And now Trump just stops writing the checks, and the troublemakers are brought to heel, one by one.
Iran’s economy is already on the rocks – and it’s on Monday the real embargo begins! Erdogan’s dreams of standing tall at the helm of a reborn Caliphate have turned to dust along with the Turkish Lira. And in the case of UNRWA (United Nations Rocket Warehousing Association), the financial screw has been turned until terrorist organizations scream in pain.
Why, oh why didn’t past US Presidents do the same thing?
It’s wonderful! All these clowns howling ‘foul’ despite their public attacks on America and her allies.
Kesselman says
Perfectly uttered!
Guy Forester says
Well stated, but the answer to your last question is most likely this: OPEC oil money buys interesting things.
christianblood says
Will trump also cut the millions of dollars he is giving to a Syrian Al-Qaeda group known as the “White Helmets”? More below:
http://theduran.com/trump-resumes-funding-for-white-helmets/
Bev says
Because they probably had some academic egghead advising them that the only way to get them to be our friends is to pay them. Trump does not look at the world that way.
Gail Griffin says
Bravo Buraq!!!
peter says
The media especially the left wing liberal is one of the greatest villains in this equation . Thery are the king makers and they make these clowns presidents ,senators and congress men who dance to their tunes .This bath room deal is the biggest kep secret in Washington . They were pissing n their pants when they heard that the smart ,independent minded Trump will become the president . He has become their night mare to the delight of all patriots in the country .God bless America .God bless Trump.
Koose E Mack says
I like the way you think!
Carolyne says
Agree completely and I believe the US should go further and slash it’s contributions to the UN or withdraw from that anti-US organization completely.
mortimer says
Trans-Jordan was created as a homeland for local Arabs under the kingship of the Hashemite family. The plan proposed by the League of Nations was to create a Jewish homeland with twenty years. It took longer because of WWII, but finally Israel became the Jewish homeland.
The two-state solution is Jordan and Israel. Any further partition of Israel is not going to help, since certain jihadic Arabs cannot be pleased with the existence of any version of a Jewish homeland. They cannot be pleased, so it is fruitless to attempt to please them.
They should be given help in moving to Jordan and integrating into Jordan as citizens. The Jordanian government should be given incentives to integrate the Pallies into Jordan and the problem will gradually go away.
Phil Copson says
Mortimer – I often disagree with what you say, but your recent posts are spot-on ! To quote Danny de Vito as slightly-dodgy home improvement salesman “Tilly” in a favourite film of mine – “Tin-Men” – “You’re right on the money with that kind of thinking, BB”
Better still – Arab terrorist Abbas is right OFF the money !
Bonnie Loranger says
I agree with you Mortimer. There are already lots. Of Palestinian in Jordan and thriving. I was there some years ago
Huibert says
Never going to happen. Jordan is happy with this situation. This way Israel has a bad name, due too the resolutions and inspiration for jihad remains. Every arab can now keep the flames of anger. Its working like a charm for them
Bodega says
At last. I have been advocating revoking all aid to Palestine for years. It was senseless in every respect.
Now if we can get OUT of the UN, I will be pleased. We have reached that time when what we do there is irrelevant and the cost is too, too high.
JACK KENNEDY says
I also Totally agree !!! Hopefully someone in the Trump Administration will ready some of these comments and the artical too!
Greg Murphy says
About time!
SAE says
Ant and Grasshopper
This one is a little different…
Two Different Versions…
Two Different Morals!
OLD VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be Responsible For Yourself!
==================================================
MODERN VERSION
The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, MSNBC and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.
America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper
and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’.
Occupy the Anthill stages a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the Black Lives Matter group singing, “We shall overcome”.
Then ‘Reverend’ Al (Shakedown) Sharpton has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while he damns the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.
Former President Barrak Hussein Obama condemns the ant and blames Donald Trump, President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer exclaim in an interview on “The View” that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number
of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar
and given to the grasshopper .
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
MORAL OF THE STORY:
Be Careful How You Vote in 2018!
Michael Copeland says
Thank you. Very salutary.
peter says
Wonderful story !
Siddi Nasrani says
“Very enlightening, thank you so much, George Orwell (1984) upgraded to 2018.
James Lincoln says
SAE, great post!
Changes that happen incrementally can be the most devastating because one can fail to realize their importance before it is too late. One must be constantly vigilant, very well-informed, and constantly push back politically.
When Angela Merkel opened the floodgates of Western Europe to Muslim migrants, it showed the rest of the free world what their future would hold if they did not push back. Central Europe, namely the Visegrad group of Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, and Slovakia, quickly woke up, pushed back, and have – thus far – avoided the problems seen in Western Europe. The United States is somewhere in the middle, but with a strong leader like President Trump, as well as great people like Robert Spencer, we at least have a chance to prevail.
Agree midterms in 2018 are critical, as well as Trump for 2020.
Linde Barrera says
To SAE- i dub thee “Aesop of Jihad Watch.” Great story, and in step with our current corporate media broadcasters such as CNN who think their opinions are the basis for all news. Thank you for your ability to “read between the lines” and put it out here.
IanB says
Thanks for a great update of Aesop’s fable.
Carolyne says
Very clever.
Kesselman says
Again president Donald Trump does the most evidently: stop funding the troublemakers in the Near East. Trump shall only have thanks for his sound political instincts. – POTUS outsmarts all the previous chiefs in command it is Fumbling Ford, Smilin’ Jimmie, The Bushes, Sleek Willie, and Barry the Amateur.
Ibrahim itace muhammed says
Buraq, if you an American you must experience the negative impact of savage mad devil Trump’s madness of imposing sanctions on many nations like China, Russia and Turkey. The economy of the evil United States going into depression, many companies closing business, unemployment is high, inflation skyrocketed, cost of living too much. Turkish economy is bouncing back to fast growth as a massive foreign investments, especially from Qatar, China and Russia.
IanB says
Crawl back into your hole and have another bucket of camel piss.
CSader says
In completely unrelated news (according to Al Jazeera) the price of bomb-making materials has increased slightly in the Palestinian areas.
Jenny H says
If Abbas and his family and the other Palestinian elite gave back the aid money they’ve stolen, no foreigners would need to provide funds.
duh swami says
The ‘Palestinians’ are a phantom people who don’t really exist…Funding them is like still sending Hillary Campaign contributions when there is o campaign…….