Trump Threatens to Cut Off U.S. Aid to Palestinian Authority
- Palestinians condemn recognizing Jerusalem as Israeli capital
- U.S. sent $616 million to Palestinians in 2016, agency says
Palestinians demonstrate against Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, in Gaza City on Jan. 1.
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President Donald Trump threatened to cut off U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority after its leaders said the president’s unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel disqualified America as a Middle East peace mediator.
Trump said in a series of tweets Tuesday that the U.S. pays “the Palestinians HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS a year” yet gets “no appreciation or respect.” He added that “with the Palestinians no longer willing to talk peace, why should we make any of these massive future payments to them?”