Last week, the State Department announced that it will remit some $150 million to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which serves to perpetuate the Israel-Palestinian conflict by keeping Palestinians in a permanent state of refugeedom while educating their children to hate Jews. Tens of millions of dollars more will go to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. To send this aid, the Biden administration will have to find a way around two pieces of legislation that forbid U.S. funds from going to institutions that support terrorism. Matthew Continetti comments:
A conceit of President Joe Biden’s foreign policy is that involvement in corrupt multilateral institutions [like UNRWA] somehow gives the United States an opportunity to improve them.
What was particularly galling about [the resumption of aid to the Palestinians] was its disconnect from the nature of Palestinian governance. Here is an administration that says the conflict between democracy and authoritarianism will define the 21st century. Here is an administration that prides itself on its support for human rights. And here is an administration that says it will be able to prevent millions in taxpayer funds from directly benefiting the Palestinian Authority, and thereby breaking U.S. law.
Good luck. The renewed assistance, remember, will be circulated in a polity whose president is in the sixteenth year of a four-year term, whose official corruption is legendary, whose 2.7 million subjects are policed by no fewer than six internal security forces.
When you reward bad behavior, you get more of it. And that is exactly what Biden is doing.
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