Many conservatives will rejoice to discover that the Trump administration is looking into slashing funding to the United Nations in anticipation of a new resolution seeking to slam Israel.
The White House and Congress are considering slashing U.S. funding to the United Nations in light of its most recent effort to declare the Jewish state’s fighting forces a chief violator of children’s rights, according to multiple conversations with U.S. officials.
The U.N. is working to add the Israeli Defense Forces, or IDF, to a list of entities such as terror groups that are responsible for inhumane acts against children.
Apparently they would be put on a list of terror groups that kill children, some who do it “en masse.” Pretty disgusting, and it’s purely because of anti-Israel hatred at the United Nations.
The Free Beacon got the scoop, and they cited an administration official about Trump’s tone with Israel.
“The Israeli Defense Forces are among the most humane, professional armed forces on the planet,” said the official, who was not authorized to speak on record. “Israel has been aggressively refining its protocols to minimize civilian casualties—so much so that after the 2014 conflict in Gaza the United States sent a delegation to study their best practices.”
Of course, this comes on the heels of Obama utterly stabbing Israel in the back on his way out of the Oval Office when the United States abstained from a vote at the United Nations condemning their settlements. Of course, then Trump later told Bibi to stop it with the settlements himself, but still…