Fast Takes: Stop funding UNRWA, Communist millionaires feud over strategy and more

Sens.Tom Cotton and Ted Cruz call on President Trump to “fully dismantle UNRWA and eliminate it from the U.N.

budget” because “it has long connived at Islamist terrorism against Israel,” thunders the Washington Examiner’s Editorial Board.UNRWA’s very existence “implies falsely that Palestinian Arabs are in a unique position and should be found a home in what is now Israeli sovereign territory.” Cotton and Cruz “cited UNRWA’s links to the Oct.

7, 2023, Hamas terrorist attack in Israel,” where 12 UNWRA employees joined in the slaughter of 1,200 innocents.At least 10% “of UNRWA’s Gaza workforce” belongs to “groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad, according to Israeli intelligence,” a fact the UN simply ignores.

“American tax dollars helped make this possible.That must end.”Two “Communist millionaires” who are “putative allies” as they separately fund “a transnational web of far-left groups” are exchanging “fire” over their opposing models of “serious radicalism,” notes City Journal’s Stu Smith.

Cox Communications heir Jim Chambers favors “militant” “direct action,” such as the “targeting of Israeli defense firm Elbit Systems” by Palestine Action UK with “illegal vandalism, destruction, and force,” while Neville Roy Singham believes “revolutionary mass movements will fail unless they are guided by an educated vanguard.” This “split between the far-Left’s two most serious backers” may help Congress, which is probing Singham’s funding sources, to achieve “more effective scrutiny” of domestic groups “involved in coordinating large-scale unrest.”Ferrari’s new $640,000 electric Luce “looks to be the biggest product introduction flop since Crystal Pepsi,” snarks Jack Baruth at The Free Press.It doesn’t look like a Ferrari, but like “every other electric four-door sedan on the market, only worse.” In reaction, Ferrari stock fell 8% in Milan and 5% in New York.

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