The Trump administration is ending all aid to a United Nations program for Palestinian refugees, a move that experts fear will worsen the humanitarian disaster and rampant violence in Palestine, particularly in Gaza, according to a Thursday Washington Post report.
The administration reportedly plans to call for a narrowing of the definition of “refugee,” which would vastly shrink the number of Palestinians eligible for aid from 5 million to a tiny fraction of that.
These cuts, along with the recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, are part of a drastic change in the United States’ Middle East policy under Trump.
Read the full report here.
This won’t get the coverage it deserves, but when I heard about this last night I was crestfallen. Exhibit A - the real life consequences of Trump’s mean spirited polices translating to actual suffering by innocents. That will be his legacy.
Trump doesn’t think there are enough Muslim terrorists, and hopes to create some more, so that he can point and say, “See, Only I can save you from the evil hordes!”
Palestinians are a stateless people, trapped in diminishing territories being snatched away from them, with little means of sustenance. This money helps feed many of these people, even growing children, with rice and scarce else. Ending these funds is cruelty; I dare say “genocidal.”
This kind of shit pisses off everybody.
I do not care about the politics of this situation, Trump does this because he can and because he is a Prick.