The Palestinian Authority's request for full membership at the UN endangers international security, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul (R-TX) and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-ID) said Tuesday in a statement.
McCaul and Risch said the PA has not made substantive reforms and continues to implement "pay-for-slay." They said there is no negotiated solution between the PA and Israel, and said it is not a "serious attempt to find a peaceful, lasting solution to the conflict; it is an opportunistic, politically-motivated move to bypass the peace process."
“US law requires the United States to cut off all funding to the UN if the UN admits Palestine as a member state," the statement said. "Anything other than staunch opposition to this ploy from the Biden Administration is political pandering.”