What dem policy universally banned them similar to what Trump did?
Gaza is a demolition site....
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Trump has said Russia had a right to go after Ukraine and it's none of our business.
He's basically following GW's playbook for going after Iraq, history and lives be damned.
The rest of the world will view all Americans the same.
Yep Filipinos
And this was the smart thing to do in the PRIMARY.
You have a problem for people protesting a genocide? LmaoUhhh .so where's the protest for this new phase??
I have a problem with inconsistency..they rolled the dice on Biden he failed and they marched and screamed.... they rolled the dice on trump... he laffed and said nigga please...and silence.
Kinda like what you're doing now..
Still no criticism from you huh...oh that's right..he's the best president right??
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bye homeless bitch
Trump announces withdrawal from UN human rights body and halt to funding for Palestinian refugees
EDITH M. LEDERER
Updated 7:34 PM EST, February 4, 2025
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that the United States will withdraw from the top U.N. human rights body and will not resume funding for the U.N. agency helping Palestinian refugees.
The U.S. left the Geneva-based Human Rights Council last year, and it stopped funding the agency assisting Palestinian refugees, known as UNRWA, after Israel accused it of harboring Hamas militants who participated in the surprise Oct. 7, 2023, attacks in southern Israel, which UNRWA denies.
Trump’s announcement came on the day he met with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose country has long accused both the rights body and UNRWA of bias against Israel and antisemitism.
Trump’s executive orders also call for a review of American involvement in the Paris-based U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, known as UNESCO, and a review of U.S. funding for the United Nations in light of “the wild disparities in levels of funding among different countries.”
The United States, with the world’s largest economy, pays 22% of the U.N.'s regular operating budget, with China the second-largest contributor.
I’ve always felt that the U.N. has tremendous potential,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It’s not living up to that potential right now. ... They’ve got to get their act together.”
He said the U.N. needs “to be fair to countries that deserve fairness,” adding that there are some countries, which he didn’t name, that are “outliers, that are very bad and they’re being almost preferred.”
Before Trump’s announcement, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric reiterated the Human Rights Council’s importance and UNRWA’s work in delivering “critical services to Palestinians.”
Trump also pulled the U.S. out of the Human Rights Council in June 2018. His ambassador to the U.N. at the time, Nikki Haley, accused the council of “chronic bias against Israel” and pointed to what she said were human rights abusers among its members.
President Joe Biden renewed support for the Human Rights Council, and the U.S. won a seat on the 47-nation body in October 2021. But the Biden administration announced in late September that the United States would not seek a second consecutive term.
Trump’s order on Tuesday has little concrete effect because the United States is already not a council member, said council spokesperson Pascal Sim. But like all other U.N. member countries, the U.S. automatically has informal observer status and will still have a seat in the council’s ornate round chamber at the U.N. complex in Geneva.
UNRWA was established by the U.N. General Assembly in 1949 to provide assistance for Palestinians who fled or were expelled from their homes before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that followed Israel’s establishment, as well as for their descendants. It provides aid, education, health care and other services to some 2.5 million Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, as well as 3 million more in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Before the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, UNRWA ran schools for Gaza’s 650,000 children as well as health facilities, and helped deliver humanitarian aid. It has continued to provide health care and been key to the delivery of food and other aid to Palestinians during the war.
The first Trump administration suspended funding to UNRWA in 2018, but Biden restored it. The U.S. had been the biggest donor to the agency, providing it with $343 million in 2022 and $422 million in 2023.
For years, Israel has accused UNRWA of anti-Israeli bias in its education materials, which the agency denies.
Israel alleged that 19 of UNRWA’s 13,000 staff in Gaza participated in the Hamas attacks. They were terminated pending a U.N. investigation, which found nine may have been involved.
In response, 18 governments froze funding to the agency, but all have since restored support except the United States. Legislation ratifying the U.S. decision halted any American funding to UNRWA until March 2025, and Trump’s action Tuesday means it will not be restored.
Yep, The Palestinians (military wing of Hamas) I saw taking out whole squadrons of tanks, IDF soldiers, military compounds, etc. are NOT the same as the whiny Arab-Americans in places like Dearborn, Michigan and the fair weather protesters who only had smoke for Dem rallies. Definitely not built the same either, from what I saw on the battlefield. That's the real reason behind the current ceasefire.
There's also this...
"Egypt, Jordan and other American allies in the Middle East have already rejected the idea of relocating more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza elsewhere in the region."
“It’s been made very clear to the president that the United States needs to be involved in this rebuilding effort to ensure stability in the region for all people,” Leavitt said at Wednesday’s White House press briefing. “That does not mean boots on the ground in Gaza. That does not mean American taxpayers will be funding this effort.”
"Saudi Arabia, an important American ally, weighed in quickly on Trump’s expanded idea to take over the Gaza Strip in a sharply worded statement, noting that its long call for an independent Palestinian state was a “firm, steadfast and unwavering position.”
WATCH: White House walks back Trump's suggestion of 'permanent' resettlement for Palestinians in Gaza
Trump said the U.S. would redevelop the territory after Palestinians are resettled elsewhere and turn the territory into a place where the "world's people"— including Palestinians — would live.
www.pbs.org
These actions are creating future terrorists that about to crash out to the third degree...
as soon as they get rid of all of them.........America's network infrastructure will be hacked......................and Trump will blame Democrats.
so much for America first.
Man, it’s so fucking depressing to read this Facebook granma level commentary on BGOL. Truly.
I’ve been beating the drum here for a long time on the obvious emergence (or “re-emergence?”) of fascism in the wake of this incredibly weak neoliberal project the Dem party has been engaged in.
In any other context, the notion of Dems losing to the most obviously terrible candidate/ party in this cartoon show “duopoly” would be demonstrative of the need for serious, thoughtful reflection but all we get instead is finger wagging at decent human beings who were disgusted by the genocidal excesses of our erstwhile “proxies”. Just more evidence of why Dems are such losers in the first place.
We live in a realm beyond parody.
I’ve been beating the drum here for a long time on the obvious emergence (or “re-emergence?”) of fascism in the wake of this incredibly weak neoliberal project the Dem party has been engaged in.
In any other context, the notion of Dems losing to the most obviously terrible candidate/ party in this cartoon show “duopoly” would be demonstrative of the need for serious, thoughtful reflection but all we get instead is finger wagging at decent human beings who were disgusted by the genocidal excesses of our erstwhile “proxies”. Just more evidence of why Dems are such losers in the first place.
We live in a realm beyond parody.
Yo what's up
Where you been