BLINKEN: OPPOSE PALESTINIAN STATEHOOD, OR STARVE.

"It's US policy to starve the world if Palestinians have a free state..."

Issuing a threat disguised as a reminder, Blinken is referring to US law:

Under legislation by the Congress since 1990, the United States must cut off funding to UN agencies that give full membership to a Palestinian state.

"Antony Blinken said we have to oppose Palestinian statehood or else the World Food Programme budget will be cut and people will starve around the world."

Section 414 of US Public Law 101-246, passed in 1990, states that "No funds authorized to be appropriated from this act or any other Act shall be available for the United Nations or any specialized agency thereof which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states."