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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Remember how miserable we were all these years? I still have to pinch myself. The Country actually made the right decision.
Perhaps if not for Obama we would have never ever had a real conservative like Trump in office. God works in mysterious ways
More winning; not tired yet; Pray without ceasing God will continue this miracle as we seek His face and His will in repentance and love.
He has shown us more mercy than we deserve.It is like we have been given a second chance to get things right.
Hey bro what’s the good word! And yes to be honest we didn’t deserve it after all the abortions the past 50 years. But God is good.
UNESCO = Common Core
They are taking over our schools-thanks to Bush bringing them back in.
Now Trump is DOING IT RIGHT!
This is an ANSWER TO PRAYER!
The good word is that God is taking good care of both of us!
Man, after 60 million+ abortions, I think Sodom and Gomorrah are owed an apology.
And in the last 44 years, the 30 million or so girls that were aborted might have had another 40 million children amongst them. Now we are at 100 million.
Good to see you keep fighting the good fight here—your posts are great, and not so many ###### now I see! LOL!
Although there are still plenty of those LOL. I am trying my best. It’s hard to change an old Italian :)
Yet the $500 mil. per year U.S. taxpayer payments to the terrorist Arab squatters continued.
How about we let you loose on Fridays?
Fridays can be ##### days!
Actually, you are doing very well.
Now if we tie up your hands, you won’t be able to talk at all ;)
Why not pull out of the UN completely?
UNESCO didn’t do a damn thing bout ISIS destroying the antiquities around Palmyra.
The have alot to answer for.
Do they actually do that?
way overdue, send a message to the UN that we won’t support anti-Israel agenda anymore
They’re headed that way, anyway. So why not tell them outright?
UNESCO = Common Core
They are taking over our schools-thanks to Bush bringing them back in.
Now Trump is DOING IT RIGHT!
>><<
That’s right.
And it’s all tied in with Agenda 21 and other things in the Globalist agenda.. They’re brainwashing and indoctrinating.
The UN Secretariat Building is 525ft tall. Who knew bullsh!t could pile so high?
Oh Happy Day!
Another Trump victory!
Looking forward to being totally rid of the UN.
The best part of the excerption is the last paragraph.
I can remember as a kid trick-or-treating and shilling for UNESCO. As I recall (getting harder and harder :) we took the money to school and turned it in.
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