Axios: Netanyahu Behind Trump Admin Decision To End Aid To Palestinian Refugees

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Donald Trump speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Mart... Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu listens as President Donald Trump speaks during their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) MORE LESS

Soon before the Trump administration announced that the United States would stop funding a United Nations agency that helps Palestinian refugees, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the White House to end the aid, according to a Sunday Axios report.

In the past, the Israeli position was reportedly that any cut in American funding to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) should be gradual, to prevent worsening the humanitarian crisis in Palestine, especially in Gaza.

Netanyahu apparently changed this position under his own volition, without any input from the Israeli security council or intelligence agencies, and secretly conveyed his new stance to the Trump administration and members of the Senate Appropriations Committee via Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the U.S.

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  1. One more case of Trump dancing to a hostile foreign leader’s tune. And Netanyahoo is hostile to America and peace in the middle east.

    Does prez Full Diaper ever listen to Americans?

  2. I would assume nearly every foreign policy decision from this badministration has its origin in somewhere other than the U.S.

  3. Just a coupla guys, doing whatever the fuck they want. No biggie.

  4. Is there anyone Trump allows into his head and worldview who isn’t despicable?

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