Trump and the UN.

From staff cuts to aid reductions, UN humanitarian agencies scramble in wake of US funding freeze | AP News

Issues & Insights: Defund The United Nations  "The United Nations is running short of cash. This is not a crisis but an opportunity. Please rid us of this meddlesome, venal and baleful organization.

"The Economist reports that “internal modeling” at the U.N. “suggests that the year-end cash deficit will, without cuts, probably blow out to $1.1 billion, leaving it “without money to pay salaries and suppliers by September.”

"Apparently “some members are paying their bills late and others not at all” and it is the U.S. and China that “are pushing it to the brink of financial collapse.”

"Who says the U.S. and Beijing have no common interests.

"Two weeks into the second Trump administration, the White House announced it was considering withdrawing the country from, and ending funding for, three U.N. agencies, including the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) and the U.N. Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

“UNRWA has reportedly been infiltrated by members of groups long designated by the secretary of state as foreign terrorist organizations,” says the White House, “and UNRWA employees were involved in the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel.” 

"Meanwhile, “UNESCO has demonstrated failure to reform itself, has continually demonstrated anti-Israel sentiment over the past decade” and has shown that it will not “reform itself.”

"The U.S. is also quitting the U.N. Human Rights Council, which it has done once before, in 2018, during President Donald Trump’s first term. The misnamed Human Rights Council “has protected human rights abusers by allowing them to use the organization to shield themselves from scrutiny,” says the White House.

"For those who will disregard the administration’s explanations because they’re “political rants,” we offer some facts: . . ."

Why does Donald Trump want to take over Gaza and could he do it?  "Donald Trump has shocked the world by suggesting that the US could "take over" and "own" Gaza, resettling its population in the process.

"The proposal could mark the biggest shift in US policy on the Middle East in decades and upend the international consensus on a Palestinian state comprising Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

"Trump has suggested that under his plan, Gaza would be handed over to the US by Israel and its residents encouraged to move elsewhere with no right of return." . . .

The last time we occupied a state known for killing with glee every Jew they could resolved major problems. That "two-state solution" has proven to be a non-starter much like the Poland/ Germany arrangement in 1939. The Tunnel Dweller.