Loophole: Did Biden Actually Pause All US Aid to UNRWA After Terrorism Scandal?
Guy Benson
Earlier this month, the Biden administration reversed its previous and deeply foolish decision to de-list the Houthis as a terrorist organization -- a reflexive anti-Trump move rooted in a dangerously ill-conceived effort to appease Iran. The Houthis have been attacking Americans and terrorizing international shipping lanes, with other Iranian proxies routinely assaulting, and now killing, Americans. Reality has reduced Biden's foreign policy to a smoldering wreckage. It turns out that bending over backwards to accommodate the Iranian regime doesn't improve their conduct. And sternly chanting "don't" for the cameras isn't actually a deterrent to their escalating violence-by-proxy. Weakness is emboldening. But as we noted, there's less than meets the eye to Biden's about-face on the Houthis, as the new re-designation has less teeth than the previous classification, and is packed with loopholes and waivers.
They got their headlines about the designation going back into place, just under the hood, it's a more feeble action than it would seem. Similarly, you may have read that the Biden administration has frozen funds to UNRWA, the United Nations operation in Gaza, after explosive and credible allegations emerged that a dozen UNRWA employees were directly involved in the planning and execution of the October 7 Hamas massacre of Israeli civilians. The Trump administration stopped funding this deeply corrupt organization back in 2018, then Biden quickly restored the money upon taking office. Now that this move has blown up in his face, Biden has belatedly and apparently temporarily stopped the cash flow to UNRWA. But as we saw with the Houthis climbdown, there's a catch:
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