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US-funded Afghanistan gives $1,000,000 to Palestinians

Mar 7, 2019 9:30 am By Christine Douglass-Williams

From one jihad-supporting country to the next: a gift of a million dollars, courtesy of the infidels:

Afghanistan, which claims it would collapse without assistance from its top international donor the United States….pledged $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees while blasting President Donald Trump’s administration for suspending aid to the international body’s program.

Abdul Rahim Sayed, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Turkey, who presented the donation, also stated that “the Palestinian cause is a very noble cause for Afghan people. Whatever they could do for Palestinians, they will do it.”

Since  the early 2000s, it has been known that the UNRWA has been using its operations “as a cover for Palestinian militants, using UN ambulances to smuggle weapons to fighters and hosting terrorist meetings in UN buildings.”

Trump stated in a tweet last year:

✔@realDonaldTrump
 · Jan 2, 2018
It’s not only Pakistan that we pay billions of dollars to for nothing,
but also many other countries, and others. As an example, we pay
the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year
and get no appreciation or respect. They don’t even want to
negotiate a long overdue…

“U.S.-Funded Afghanistan Gives $1 Million to U.N. Palestinian Program,” by Edwin Mora, Breitbart, March 4, 2019:

Afghanistan, which claims it would collapse without assistance from its top international donor the United States, on Sunday pledged $1 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) that provides assistance to Palestinian refugees while blasting President Donald Trump’s administration for suspending aid to the international body’s program.

It appears that despite President Trump’s decision last year to cut funding for UNRWA — the main U.N. program for Palestinian refugees — some American taxpayer funds may find their way to the agency after all through Afghanistan.

As Afghanistan’s top international donor, the United States spends an estimated $3 billion per month on Afghanistan.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani — who has periodically thanked the American taxpayer for their contribution to his country — warned in early 2018 that the Afghan army and Kabul government would collapse if the United States were to withdraw its financial support.

Nevertheless, the Ghani administration managed to find an extra $1 million lying around to help the U.N. Palestinian refugee program.

Abdul Rahim Sayed, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Turkey, presented the donation on Sunday to a UNRWA head in an event held in Istanbul. Turkey welcomed the donation.

Notwithstanding the financial difficulties and challenges facing Afghanistan, “Our president decided to support by responding to the call by President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan,” Abdul Rahim Sayed, Afghanistan’s ambassador to Turkey, told the state-run Anadolu Agency (AA), adding:

This is a humanitarian cause. Humanitarian assistance is something which is responsibility of all human beings. Especially, the Islamic world should do it. If Afghanistan can do it [granting aid] in such a difficult time, everybody can do it.

“The Palestinian cause is a very noble cause for Afghan people. Whatever they could do for Palestinians, they will do it,” he added.

Amb. Sayed condemned the Trump administration for suspending aid to the U.N. Palestinian refugee program last year.

“We should not cut any support for humanitarian assistance. Palestinian refugees, children, they need support, and we should do it. Everybody should do it,” the envoy stressed.

At a cost of $350 million annually, the United States had been the UNRWA’s largest contributor by far before Trump ended funding for the agency last year. His decision came as part of an effort to reduce the number of Palestinians considered refugees, recalculate U.S. aid to match the president’s policies, and compel Palestinian politicians to drop or reduce the demand for “right of return” to land contested by Israel.

The Afghan envoy urged the international community, particularly Muslim countries, to play a role in supporting Palestinians.

In January, the UNRWA noted in a statement that it needed additional funding to provide assistance to about 5.4 million Palestinian refugees across the Middle East and maintain the agency’s operations at last year’s levels…..

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  1. mortimer says

    Mar 7, 2019 at 9:59 am

    Afghanistan likely has the most fanatical Muslims per capita of any Islamic country. Against all evidence, almost 99% of Afghans believe that Sharia law is beneficial … they likely know very little about Sharia, but they think they ought to like it.

    The fanatical belief of Afghans in Islam can be undermined by translating counterjihad books and videos into Pashtun, Urdu and other languages used in Afghanistan and used by Afghans living in exile. Deprogramming Afghans is urgent.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 7, 2019 at 2:30 pm

      sadly, mortimer, that approach is so long overdue that it can’t work in time to save us. about the only thing that would work now is a centuries-long military occupation of *all* the s**thole nations of the ummah, with a concurrent outlawing of the pirate cult. since we don’t have the stomach for that because we collectively have zero understanding of islam and its existential threat to our lives, the ummah has nothing to fear from us. the PRC has a better chance of survival, since they are busily “re-educating” the uighurs, the chinese muslims. the effort most likely to successfully squelch islam is a horrid one i saw proposed in the past year or so, in which the commenter suggested not only a military occupation, but the removal of all children from muslim parents. even with that evil approach, it would *still* take 50 years or so for the older members of the ummah to die off and be replaced by their hindu-ized/christian-ized/atheism-ized children … and *they* would have to have their nations occupied for another 50 or so years, in order for the memory of the mass kidnapping to be softened by time and the natural death of most of the kidnapping victims.

      bottom line: civilization is close to being doomed. freedom is rapidly being extinguished in eurabia, and civilization there will soon be swallowed up by the ummah. in the same fashion, freedom is being assaulted here in the western hemisphere; we’re only a decade or so behind eurabia. the hard-core left thinks that it will have no problem with pious muslims once society collapses under their attacks (and the left declares martial law), but muslims, from MINOs to pious, are all susceptible to becoming pious jihadis due to the pirate scriptures in which they believe, and under whose influence they are virtually all raised, while western leftists are almost all converted to their beliefs in early adulthood. muslims are prepared by islamic scriptures and the ulema to murder infidels from birth, and *look* for death in order to be guaranteed access to jannah, and there will be *millions* more pious muslims than hard-core leftists (*all* of whom want to go on living), so the left isn’t likely to survive that civil war.

      civilization *can* survive, and i intend to do *all* that i can to make sure that it does, but i see little choice but to prepare for civil war. free citizens in each civilized nation will have to pick up arms and water the tree of liberty once the left and the ummah begin fighting. until that war begins, however, i *STRONGLY* urge all patriots in every free nation to *OBEY THE LAW*, since free nations are governed by laws, not by the fiat of strongmen. it is the LEFT that breaks the law when convenient, and i will have *NO* *PART* in destroying the rule of the constitution. instead, set aside food and water (and rotate through it in FIFO fashion); U will need it once martial law is declared, and probably before that happens. more importantly, patriots should *arm* themselves – with *LEGAL* weapons – guns and ammunition where possible, other materials where the nazis have blocked legal ownership of guns (crossbows, legal bomb-making materials, etc.). and as a born-again christian, i am praying that none of this will be necessary; all is in God’s hands, but i must prepare to protect my family, my community, and my nation.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 7, 2019 at 11:34 pm

      Why would you think that translating Anti-Jihad books into Pashtun would automatically “deprogram” Muslims? Most Muslims who read about Infidels opposing the horrors of Jihad just want to murder them, not join them.

  2. CRUSADER says

    Mar 7, 2019 at 10:03 am

    Follow the Money….

    And as David Horowitz of Freedom Center cautions:

    Discover The Networks:

    https://www.discoverthenetworks.org

  3. Highsider says

    Mar 7, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    Is ayone in government even paying attention?

  4. Elizabeth Baklaich says

    Mar 7, 2019 at 12:08 pm

    Agreed, no more “aid” to countries who hate us, throw out the UN and make all the “dignitaries” pay their parking tickets. Then, while we are at it, restart the prosecutions on the Holyland Foundation investigation, declare the Muslim Brotherhood and all it’s subsidiaries (CAIR, MSA etc) terrorist organizations and change the curriculum in our schools so we start to teach our children what poisonous ideologies are, that safe spaces only exist where brave people of value created them, that they should use their Freedom of Speech to educate the useful idiots and that we are a God fearing nation who needs to turn back to our Judeo Christian heritage.

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 7, 2019 at 2:34 pm

      well put, Elizabeth!

      +1

  5. gravenimage says

    Mar 7, 2019 at 11:44 pm

    We should not be giving American taxpayer money to any of these Muslim thugs.

  6. owensgate says

    Mar 8, 2019 at 9:30 am

    That’s GREAT! Now that they have enough money that they can indulge in great works of “charity” on their own, we need not give them another cent. And if you believe we won’t, I have this bridge to sell… (Note: They have a great treasure of “rare earth” minerals. I say we go in there and take them. We’ve paid for them many times over.)

  7. K WAGNER says

    Mar 9, 2019 at 3:11 pm

    Fine as long as they stay there

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