"Emails published by Foreign Policy magazine this week shed light on discussions within the Trump administration on phasing out support for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, an organization that provides aid to descendants of refugees from 1940s Mandate Palestine.
Advisers to US President Donald Trump have publicly questioned the purpose of UNRWA throughout the last year, partially suspending US funding to the UN body in January and suggesting to Mideast allies that its continued existence is a disservice to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process...
'It is important to have an honest and sincere effort to disrupt UNRWA,' Kushner wrote in an email dated January 11, addressed to several other senior officials. 'This [agency] perpetuates a status quo, is corrupt, inefficient and doesn't help peace.
'Our goal can't be to keep things stable and as they are,' he added. 'Sometimes you have to strategically risk breaking things in order to get there.'
Victoria Coates, a special assistant to the president and adviser on the Middle East peace team, wrote separately that from her discussions with Kushner, Greenblatt and Haley, the administration might agree on a strategy to phase out UNRWA altogether 'by the time its charter comes up again in 2019.'
'UNRWA should come up with a plan to unwind itself and become part of the UNHCR,' she wrote, referring to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees..."