ALLIES ONCE MORE: Israeli PM backs Trump critique of Palestinian UN aid agency.

Netanyahu suggested UNRWA’s budget should be transferred to the more far-reaching United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, where it would be allocated to those truly in need.

“UNRWA is an organization that perpetuates the Palestinian refugee problem. It also perpetuates the right of return narrative in order to eliminate the state of Israel. Therefore UNRWA must become a thing of the past,” he said.

Netanyahu voiced a common Israeli criticism that UNRWA was created specifically for the Palestinians, while the UNHCR deals with the rest of the world’s refugees.

“This of course creates a situation where great-grandchildren of refugees who are not refugees are treated as such by UNRWA. And 70 more years will pass and they will have great-grandchildren, so this absurdity must be stopped,” he said.

Maybe something can change, now that the Sunni Arab states need Israeli cooperation against regional threats more than they need the Palestinian thorn in Israel’s side.