United States should pull the plug on UNRWA

Published June 3, 2026 5:00am ET | Updated June 4, 2026 3:54pm ET



The federal government should put an end to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. It has long connived at Islamist terrorism against Israel and has, to put it mildly, long been an impediment to peace.

In a May 18 letter, Sens. Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and 23 of their Republican colleagues urged President Donald Trump to take “decisive action to fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the U.N. budget.”

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