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January 22, 2018

Why Cutting U.S. Funding for Palestinian “Refugees” Is the Right Move

UNRWA’s core mission is to perpetuate the problem it is supposed to be solving.

Last week the Trump administration announced that it is withholding some of America’s annual contribution to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the organization tasked with providing humanitarian aid to Palestinian refugees and their descendants. To explain why this decision was correct, Elliott Abrams compares UNRWA with the agency run by the UN high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR), which provides humanitarian aid to refugees who are not Palestinian:

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