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US to pull out of UNESCO amid Palestinian tensions
Associated Press ^ | October 12, 2017 | MATTHEW LEE and ANGELA CHARLTON

Posted on 10/12/2017 6:19:35 AM PDT by Pinkbell

PARIS (AP) — U.S. officials have told The Associated Press that the United States is pulling out of UNESCO, after repeated criticism of resolutions by the U.N. cultural agency that Washington sees as anti-Israel.

While the U.S. stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member in 2011, the State Department has maintained a UNESCO office at its Paris headquarters and sought to weigh in on policy behind the scenes. The withdrawal was confirmed Thursday by U.S. officials speaking on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to be publicly named discussing the decision. It was not clear when the move would be formally announced.

The decision comes as the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is voting to choose a new director this week, in tense balloting overshadowed by the agency’s funding troubles and divisions over Palestinian membership.

Many saw the vote to include Palestine as evidence of long-running, ingrained anti-Israel bias within the United Nations, where Israel and its allies are far outnumbered by Arab countries and their supporters.

UNESCO is best known for its World Heritage program to protect cultural sites and traditions around the world. The agency also works to improve education for girls in desperately poor countries and in scientific fields, to promote better understanding of the horrors of the Holocaust and to defend media freedom, among other activities.

The Trump administration has been preparing for a likely withdrawal for months, and a decision was expected before the end of the year, according to U.S. officials. Several diplomats who were to have been posted to the mission this summer were told that their positions were on hold and advised to seek other jobs.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: palestine; third100days; trump; trumpun; un; unesco
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To: upchuck

My mistake. Not UNESCO, UNICEF. Sorry. Same thing :)


41 posted on 10/12/2017 5:47:32 PM PDT by upchuck (Looking for a new/different job? Try Genealogy. You can't get fired and you can't quit!)
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To: Dr. Thorne

UNEXIT!


42 posted on 10/13/2017 5:31:46 AM PDT by Captain7seas (UNexit. Make America Great Again!)
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To: dp0622
we didn’t deserve it after all the abortions the past 50 years.

Whaddya mean "we"....white man?

43 posted on 10/13/2017 9:01:52 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Pinkbell

Get the UN out of the US. Get the US out of the UN.


44 posted on 10/13/2017 10:37:52 AM PDT by raiderboy ( "...if we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall.”)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Did you block a door with your body and get physically taken away?

what would Jesus have wanted you to do?

did you protest every day?

show up in front of a clinic every day?

if you did, then you deserved all the glories

I didn’t

pride is BAD


45 posted on 10/13/2017 12:33:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump isouokt of office, it is WAR!)
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To: dp0622
if you did

Actually, I have a long track record of opposing the wild-eyed baby killers.

46 posted on 10/13/2017 1:05:42 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, RINOs...same thing)
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To: Pinkbell

If it starts with the letters “UN” it is corrupt and anti-America/Israel.


47 posted on 10/14/2017 6:49:05 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (ALL records destroyed/faked, books rewritten, statues renamed, dates altered and more.../1984)
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To: RightGeek

#5. Surprised that Pres. Occommio didn’t give the UN the $500M. After all, it’s chump change compared to the $151 BILLION he gave to the Islamic Fascist state of Iran.

Sometimes you just don’t know why something happened or not.


48 posted on 10/14/2017 6:28:25 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Pinkbell

It is made up of muzzie nations and no western nations. Just like the committee the UN has on human rights. It is made up of muzzies, China, maybe even NK.


49 posted on 10/15/2017 6:02:12 PM PDT by RetiredArmy (We are in the Last Days of human history. Jesus is coming back, & soon! Do U know Him?)
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