In the wake of the Palestinian Authority’s refusal to negotiate a peace treaty with Israel, President Donald Trump has now slashed a significant part of U.S. aid to UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). While President Trump’s harsh criticism of UNRWA is merited and should be commended, it would be a better policy decision for him to condition, rather than cut off, U.S. aid to UNRWA.
For starters, UNRWA can only be eliminated by a UN General Assembly Resolution. In the recent UN General Assembly Resolution that rejected Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital demonstrated, 128 countries …