If the United Nations grants Palestine ‘statehood status’ a future prez could cut off funding to UN
NY Post
The United Nations may be about to bestow a diplomatic gift on the Palestinian Authority — which supported Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre — by conferring on it the “rights and privileges” of member states in UN forums.
In other words, to make “Palestine” a UN member in all but name.
This would be a moral travesty of the kind that’s come to characterize Turtle Bay, and it could only happen with the Biden administration’s assent.
But there’s a silver lining: The action provides the legal basis for a president — a future President Donald Trump, say, — to finally end all US funding to the world body.
The PLO, the terror organization whose leader, Mahmoud Abbas, runs the Palestinian Authority, has long sought to establish international recognition of a “State of Palestine” to avoid having to negotiate with, and make any concessions to, Israel.
The goal is the create a diplomatic fait accompli — “facts in the air” to the complement the facts it attempts to create on the ground through terror and illegal construction.
