Trump Challenges U.N. Over Anti-Israel Funding

"'We're not paying until you make a deal.'

That's how President Trump justified the administration's controversial decision this summer to cut off all U.S. funding for UNRWA, the UN relief agency for Palestinians. Administration officials and the Israeli government blame UNRWA for perpetuating the never-ending impasse in the West Bank, and insist on breaking the deadlock...

Former Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor tells Newsmax in an exclusive interview he has launched a new website, Unrwa-Dynasty.com, to document the fecklessness of the UN's Palestinian aid policies:

• UNRWA's 5.6 million claimed Palestinian refugees receive three times more funding than the world's more than 60 million non-Palestinian refugees, who are represented by the UN High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR). 'There is a clear discrimination against regular refugees -- from Sudan, from Eritrea, clearly,' Amb. Prosor says. 'Those are the facts.'

• The UNHCR has a staff of about 10,000 people working to stem the massive, global refugee problem. UNRWA manages to sustain a staff of 30,000 -- just to attend to the needs of the Palestinians. Many of those workers are believed to be Hamas sympathizers, and some UN officials have openly stated they believe UNWRA probably employs some Hamas members.

• In 2017, according to Prosor's data, UNHCR successfully resettled 160,000 refugees last year. The number resettled by UNWRA? 'Absolutely zero,' he says.

• A census by the Lebanese government found some 275,000 refugees that UNWRA said lived there actually 'do not exist,' Prosor says. He says UNRWA issues 'inflated reports' to justify its budget.

• According to Prosor, UNRWA's educational and placement programs are faltering badly. He says its number of graduates declined by 12 percent from 2009 to 2015.

• Educational programs UNRWA underwrites in Gaza teach 'hate and incitement against Israel,' he says. 'And most of the employees are often members of Hamas, publicly,' he tells Newsmax. 'So of course, good cannot come out of this.'..."