"Speaking during a radio interview, former United Nations ambassador to the UN John Bolton advocated for the Trump administration to withhold funding to the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which ministers to Palestinian 'refugees.'
Bolton argued the financing should be held back until UNRWA is abolished and any of its 'legitimate functions' absorbed into the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, which attends to all refugees worldwide besides Palestinians.
'I think that UNRWA ought be abolished and it's legitimate functions folded into the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, which, as you mentioned, is the UN agency that deals with everybody else," stated Bolton.
'It is anomalous to say the least that refugee status can be deemed to be inheritable. That is something that the world has never seen before. And I have seen UNRWA's work on the ground. And it is highly politicized.'
Continued Bolton on UNRWA: 'Its culture is very anti-Israel. It would be anti-American more visibly if we didn't give it hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And I think the only way to shake things up is to abolish this agency and to put its functions into the High Commissioner's office.'..."