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WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06, 2022: US President Joe Biden gives remarks in Statuary Hall of the U.S Capitol in Washington, DC. (Photo by Greg Nash-Pool/Getty Images)
NEW YORK (CC) - In April 2021, President Joe Biden's administration embarrassingly reinstated funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, after former President Donald Trump completely froze its U.S. aid money in 2018.
But Mr. Biden was forced to refreeze their funds this week after at least 12 UNRWA staffers were exposed as Hamas terrorists.
Nine nations have stopped funding the UNRWA as of this writing. The U.S. and Germany combined for about 50% of the total $1.1 billion the Agency received in 2022.
The latest humiliation for Biden came after Jerusalem provided evidence that UNRWA employees were involved in the terrorist attacks on Oct. 7, 2023 that started the Israel-Hamas war.
The expanding conflict is unfortunately poised to engulf the globe in WWIII.
The devout globalist Biden administration also removed Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis from the terrorist-designated list after the Trump administration put them on it in 2021. But Biden's hand was recently forced to reinstate their terrorist desgination.
The Houthis are now fighting a proxy war for Iran in support of Hamas against Israel and the U.S. in the Red Sea region. The Yemen Muslim radicals were pirates but recently began drone and missile attacks against American interests. The U.S. and its allies have been regularly bombing Houthi targets in Yemen for weeks, with no end in sight.
The shocking revelations about the UNRWA-Hamas ties exploded like a bomb in the international diplomat community.
"It is shocking to see a suspension of funds to the Agency in reaction to allegations against a small group of staff, especially given the immediate action that UNRWA took by terminating their contracts and asking for a transparent independent investigation," UNRWA Commissioner General Phillipe Lazzarini said, as reported by The Times of Israel on Saturday.
"It would be immensely irresponsible to sanction an agency and an entire community it serves because of allegations of criminal acts against some individuals, especially at a time of war, displacement and political crisis in the region," Mr. Lazzarini added.
Israeli officials called for him to resign from the U.N. job he has held since 2020.
The UNRWA was established in 1948 to help refugees of the the First Arab-Israeli war.
Jerusalem was restored as the Jewish homeland that year, thanks to the U.N. - itself founded in 1945.
The U.N. has been at odds with Israel for the last few years. Most recently, the International Criminal Court of Justice all but absolved Israel from genocide charges on Friday, after a 35-minute tirade against Jerusalem.
U.N. member nations Canada, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Finland all stopped funding the UNRWA.
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