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Bringing down UNRWA

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Coincidence played a part in getting the truth out about UNRWA: Hard work made it available. I happened to sit next to someone from Trump’s transition team in December 2016 at a conference in Jerusalemn and...

What the AP Intelligence Correspondent Needs to Ask

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David Bedein, Director. Susannah George, AP Intelligence and National Security Correspondent, this week published a feature “Trump administration cuts aid funding for Palestinian refugees”*, which overlooked two vital issues. First, that the US cutback to UNRWA...
US President's envoy to the Middle East Jason Greenblatt meets with Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 25, 2017. Photo by FLASH90

Special envoy Greenblatt: ‘Palestinian leadership is not talking to us—much to their detriment’

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Tasked by U.S. President Donald Trump to help reach the “deal of the century,” Jason Greenblatt, who serves as one of Trump’s top Middle East envoys, has a herculean task before him: to help...

Peace Education Opportunity

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For the past few months, ever since the US moved its embassy to Jerusalem, the US government officials have been discussing what gesture the US could make to the Palestinian Arab people. “Peace Education” would...
A Palestinian woman stands in front of UNRWA headquarters in Gaza City holding her refugee ration card during a protest demanding that the United Nations agency resume aid, April 8, 2013. Photo by Wissam Nassar/Flash90.

Netanyahu slams UNRWA for ‘perpetuating refugees;’ praises US decision to slash funding

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the United States for its decision to slash payments to the controversial UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) organization. On Friday, the administration...

Inaccurate news item: “Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian...

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Dear Editor, “Trump administration to end U.S. funding to U.N. program for Palestinian refugees“ Washington Post, August 30, 2018. represents an inaccurate news item. Following the US government decision to cut off $65 million from the annual...
From left: U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman, Special Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt, White House adviser Jared Kushner, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer, meeting in Jerusalem on June 22, 2018. Credit: U.S. Embassy in Israel.

What’s on and off the table when it comes to Middle East peace

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Long eluding his predecessors, U.S. President Donald Trump has not shied away from attempting to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he has called the “deal of the century.” Trump has broken with previous administrations by...
Masked Palestinians demonstrate in front of the headquarters of the Agency for Refugees in Balata refugee camp in protest against the policy of Scott Anderson, director of UNRWA in the West Bank, on Sept. 17, 2017. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

UNRWA lobbyists: Israel and Saudia Arabia keep it afloat as US funds dry up

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The Israeli defense establishment is the strongest advocate for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency in the country. In the United States, UNRWA’s strongest lobbyist is Saudi Arabia. In recent months, both the Israeli...
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley accepts the Jeane J. Kirkpatrick Statesmanship Award from the Foundation for Defense of Democracies at its annual National Security Summit on Aug. 28, 2018. Credit: Jackson Richman/JNS.

Haley says US will introduce additional UN resolutions condemning Hamas

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Tuesday that on behalf of the Trump administration, she plans to introduce additional resolutions at the world body that condemn the terrorist group Hamas. Since the...
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Reducing the malevolent impact of UNRWA

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U.S. President Donald Trump gave the Jewish people a gift of historic proportions by taking the issue of Jerusalem off the table back in December. On Aug. 25, President Trump gave a gift that...