Trump Threatens to Cut Off Funding to Palestinians

President Trump suggested that the U.S. should consider cutting payments to the Palestiniana, saying their officials “don’t even want to negotiate a long overdue peace treaty with Israel,” Politico reports.

“It was unclear which payments to the Palestinian Authority the president was questioning. But the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, said earlier Tuesday that Trump planned to withhold money for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, the entity tasked with aiding Palestinian refugees, if their leaders did not fully engage in the U.S.-led peace process with Israel.”