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U.S. Will Withhold Funds For U.N. Agency After Vote to Grant Membership to Palestinians
FoxNews ^ | 10/31/2011

Posted on 10/31/2011 11:28:37 AM PDT by Scythian

The United States will not pay $60 million to a U.N. cultural and educational agency after it voted Monday to accept the Palestinian mission as a full member, triggering a U.S. requirement to cut off funds.

"We are not going to be able to continue contributing to the budget," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said. "Palestinian membership as a state in UNESCO triggers longstanding legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain from making contributions to UNESCO."

Washington is required by law to cut off funding to any U.N. agency if the Palestinian Liberation Organization is granted membership in any group at the international body.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Israel; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: palestinian; un; unesco
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To: raybbr

“Watch for an Executive Order to change this...”

you beat me to this post — dittos.


21 posted on 10/31/2011 12:36:39 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: heiss

“Obama may “loan” the money to un”

loose lips sink ships — don’t give him the idea!


22 posted on 10/31/2011 12:37:54 PM PDT by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: Scythian

Do we need an excuse to defund the cesspool on the east side. Push it into the river


23 posted on 10/31/2011 12:39:41 PM PDT by ronnie raygun (V)
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To: ronnie raygun
LOL these posts are funny. I like the idea of pushing it in the river, but I'd like that to occur when Chavez and the hitler of Iran are in the building.

Maybe the UN can set up in Tehran since they love terrorists so much!!!

24 posted on 10/31/2011 12:48:11 PM PDT by Dengar01 (Dengar01 - "Heartless" since 1983!!!)
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To: raybbr

Exactly what I was thinking.


25 posted on 10/31/2011 12:49:23 PM PDT by mcshot (Neither handsome nor handy but took an oath and will vote to save our Country.)
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To: raybbr

Obambi will not be happy about this!


26 posted on 10/31/2011 12:53:34 PM PDT by holyscroller ( Without God, America is one nation under)
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To: Scythian

Praise the Lord for small gifts.


27 posted on 10/31/2011 1:22:07 PM PDT by Maryhere ("HE comes to rule the earth")
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To: Scythian

Bout dang time. Now kick the UN out of NYC and send them packing off to the Hague or somewhere in Europstan where they belong.


28 posted on 10/31/2011 1:38:49 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Scythian

But But But...they told us that since we give them so much money they will do our bidding. Makes you think the whole giving money to foreign nations is a joke—especially those that aren’t backing us at least 98% of the time on major issues.


29 posted on 10/31/2011 1:45:46 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: Scythian

if this is so, the withholding will be only a token until Obummer executive orders reverse it


30 posted on 10/31/2011 1:47:05 PM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen (I STAND WITH ISREAL)
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To: Scythian
Washington is required by law to cut off funding to any U.N. agency if the Palestinian Liberation Organization is granted membership in any group at the international body.

Feh....law, schmaw. When has that ever been a hinderance to this admin?

31 posted on 10/31/2011 1:59:35 PM PDT by edpc (My silence IS an answer)
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To: kcvl

I always liked the idea of pulling the fire alarm in the building, and after they’re all out in the street, LOCK the DAMN DOORS!
After the rats, and roaches are fumigated from the building, turn it into high end river view condos.
Can you imagine the marketing campaign?
“Live where you favorite Despot, or Dictator worked!” You’d have to have a lottery because every Lib in the world would want to live there! LOL


32 posted on 10/31/2011 2:12:26 PM PDT by rikkir (Political office should be a sacrifice, not a reward. Do your service and GO HOME!)
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Did any of the other GOP candidates comment on this?

Newt released a statement:

“I condemn the decision of the UNESCO to admit Palestine as a member state, and applaud the State Department for immediately moving to cut off funding. This is a hostile action on the part of United Nations bureaucrats and the Palestinian leadership to circumvent the peace process with Israel illegitimately, and the United States must immediately cut off funding to any other UN entity that illegally recognizes Palestine.”

“The vast anti-Israel faction at the United Nations will now try to use this vote as a first step toward full Palestinian recognition, giving voice to a government that counts terrorist organization Hamas as a key participant. The United States must be prepared to suspend all funding to the United Nations if the General Assembly moves to recognize a Palestinian state under the control of Hamas."


33 posted on 10/31/2011 5:03:24 PM PDT by newzjunkey (Republicans will find a way to reelected Obama.)
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To: Scythian

On Day 1,014 of the Obama Presidency, this Administration finally did something I agree with.


34 posted on 10/31/2011 5:30:50 PM PDT by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: kcvl

Agree.......100%


36 posted on 10/31/2011 11:01:27 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
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To: Scythian

UNESCO, an organization dedicated to decide which things are “belongings of the world government”, or “World Heritage Site”, as they say. They’ve been dictating a certain kind of political influence since, well, ever. No surprise that they want to decide maps and frontiers now.


37 posted on 10/31/2011 11:10:04 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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38 posted on 11/01/2011 5:38:04 AM PDT by SJackson (Haven't changed the environment, just take a bath. Eat a piece of chocolate. You need one. Michelle)
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To: rikkir
“Live where you favorite Despot, or Dictator worked!” You’d have to have a lottery because every Lib in the world would want to live there! LOL

Nancy Pelosi would be first in line!

39 posted on 11/01/2011 8:08:56 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: newzjunkey
"Newt released a statement: "I condemn the decision of the UNESCO to admit Palestine as a member state, and applaud the State Department for immediately moving to cut off funding. This is a hostile action on the part of United Nations bureaucrats and the Palestinian leadership to circumvent the peace process with Israel illegitimately, and the United States must immediately cut off funding to any other UN entity that illegally recognizes Palestine.

The vast anti-Israel faction at the United Nations will now try to use this vote as a first step toward full Palestinian recognition, giving voice to a government that counts terrorist organization Hamas as a key participant. The United States must be prepared to suspend all funding to the United Nations if the General Assembly moves to recognize a Palestinian state under the control of Hamas."

The United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is mostly now centered on "Cultural Organization" and is as bad or worse than the United Nations Human Rights Council. Google "UN Human Rights Council" and you'll see some of the worst offenders of human rights are on that Council.

That UN org now has Cuba, Saudi Arabia, China, Congo, and so many more on the council. How many resolutions has the UN councils passed against the peaceful Israelis, and not a one against Iran and Syria who back Hezbollah and Hamas? Talk about hypocrisy. What a worthless bunch of a**hats.

Between UNESCO and the Human Rights Council, the UN has become so corrupt, biased, and self-serving against Western civilization that I truly believe it should be disbanded. Of course, I never thought it worth much, but it's getting worse.

If not disbanded, then get them the hell out of our Country, and let them push their one-world, anti-free enterprise, anti-Israel, and pro-socialist/communist agenda somewhere else. If America did such, it would make them less credible. Good thing.

Yes, I know this is nothing new...just thought I would mention the reasons why the UN should just go away, once again.

And while we're at it, disband NATO. There is no longer any need for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It only gets us into conflicts we should have no part of - think Libya. If the SHTF, we can always aligned with those countries who have liberty's best interests at heart. Think WWII. There was no NATO; no UNITED NATIONS. Simple survival and protection of freedom. I'm confident Australia and even the pathetic PC British and others would sign on quickly.

Disclaimer: I'm not an isolationist and do not support Ron Paul's beliefs to pull up the drawbridge. If we did so, the World would quickly become the hunting ground for every totalitarian dictator/regime. Still, I believe we should pull our Troops out of certain locations and let the rogue nations know that an attack on Western civilization in mass, then you get Dresden and Tokyo fire-bombing. Enough of this political correctness nonsense. They attack, everyone of them gets killed. Everyone. Sorry. Better their civilians than ours.

If I've learned anything in my 61 years, it is that bad guys only understand power. I learned that in Junior High School about bullies and power-mongers. I've also learned that collateral damage is a consequence of committing to such power.

Blue hats are a**hats. They do little; accomplish nothing (think Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Congo, Chad, et al). A waste of time and money. Either go in with everything we've got or let them self-destruct. They are no threat simply because they can't and probably never will get their sh*t together.

We should have put Iran's leadership in its rightful place long ago - as in dead. Now they probably have the bomb, and definitely have big military capability. We should have also supported their peoples' uprising.

I'm going to see a major conflagration in the Middle East in my lifetime because of the "Arab Spring", which could lead to WWIII. Our idiot politicians think democracy is going to take hold in that region? Really?

Geeze, I'm a nobody, but can see the Islamists (Sharia Law) already winning elections with their new found so-called freedom. Nobody wants to say it, but I will -- So many Muslim peoples just simply don't WANT liberty, as we know it. They're not of that ideology; they are of a theocracy that is all encompassing in their lives. "Islam is peaceful religion" so said Bush. Pfft.

Also, when we pull out of Iraq and Aftganiscrap, they will revert to their religious tribal conflicts, while Iran moves in to support their particular Islamist beliefs. Watch. You'll see it happen within 2 years of us being gone. We'll be fighting those barbarians again...

40 posted on 11/01/2011 9:02:17 AM PDT by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever.)
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