US Cancels Funding to UNESCO, "This was a failure of US power," said "Palestinian" official after UN Body Grants Full Membership to Jihad Terror State

"Palestine" Becomes a Member of UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization

Watching the video is like deja vu ...... pre-war Germany, but this time on a global scale. The Holocaust was a transnational movement, too. And while it was a German initiative, it was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes. There were Dutch Nazis, Polish Nazis -- Europe as a continent decided it was a good idea to get rid of the Jews. Now the international community has decided to rid the world of the tiny Jewish state.

Witness the cheering of the declaration of statehood for a annihilationist movement dedicated to the destruction of the state of Israel. The OIC, which functions as the modern universal caliphate, is behind this.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas: I Will Never Recognize a Jewish State; The Capturing of Israeli Soldier Gilad Shalit Was a Good Thing

While UNESCO was rewarding terrorists for their bloody decades-long war on the Jews, Israelis were huddling in bunkers as jihadists in Gaza shelled the tiny Jewish state in a new round of attacks on the Jewish people. Schools in southern Israel were closed today because of the rocket attacks.

There will be nothing left of the free world if we allow Obama to continue this on-the-job training for another four years. 

John Bolton said, "UNESCO, true to form, has voted today to admit the Palestinian Authority as a member. So ineffective was Obama administration diplomacy that France voted in favor of Palestinian membership, and Britain and Japan abstained. U.S. statutes, dating from 1990, now require a full cutoff of U.S. funding, which Congress should insist occur immediately. Should the administration seek changes in the applicable statutory provisions that would eliminate or weaken the funding cutoff, Congress should reject them. UNESCO has made its decision: It prefers Palestinian membership to American participation. Now let the rest of the U.N. specialized agencies make their choice."

US is cutting off funding not because of Obama, but because it is mandated by Congress.

US cuts Unesco funds over vote for Palestinian seat BBC

The United States is cancelling funding for the UN cultural body Unesco after it voted to grant full membership to the Palestinians.

The motion was passed by a substantial majority, despite strong opposition from the United States and Israel.

A US state department spokeswoman said a payment of some $60m (£37m) due next month would not be made.

Membership dues paid by the US account for about a fifth of the organisation's annual budget.

This is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join since submitting their bid for recognition to the Security Council in September.

The UN Security Council will vote next month on whether to grant the Palestinians full UN membership.

Widespread applause greeted the result of Monday's vote in the chamber - of 173 countries taking part, 107 were in favour, 14 voted against and 52 abstained.

This is a historic day, said Palestinian deputy Minister of Antiquities Hamdan Taha, beaming from ear to ear in Ramallah.

Unesco membership may seem a strange and short step to Palestinian statehood. But leaders here see it as part of a broader push to get international recognition and pressure Israel. They see it as a warm-up for a more important vote next month when the UN Security Council will decide whether to admit Palestine as a full member state.

The US has veto power at the security council and has threatened to use it. It had no such power at Unesco so instead lobbied hard to try and force the Palestinians to back down. It will likely cut all US funding for Unesco - $70m a year, or 22% of its annual budget.

But Unesco members seemed to put politics before money, clearly voting in favour of the Palestinian bid. This was a failure of US power, one Palestinian official told me.

The victory will give a boost to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He lost ground to his rival Hamas when the Islamist movement secured the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for captured Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit two weeks ago.

Arab states were instrumental in getting the vote passed despite intense opposition from the US.

In an emotional session, China, Russia, India, Brazil and South Africa voted in favour of Palestinian membership, while the US, Canada and Germany voted against and the UK abstained.

Membership of Unesco - perhaps best known for its World Heritage Sites - is seen by Palestinian leaders as part of a broader push to get international recognition and put pressure on Israel.

"This vote will erase a tiny part of the injustice done to the Palestinian people," Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki told the meeting of the UN educational, scientific and cultural organisation in Paris, after the result was announced.

Murderers whining.

One of the first moves Palestinians are set to make is to apply for world heritage status for sites on occupied Palestinian land such as the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, the Associated Press news agency reports.

'In a bind'

A US law passed in the 1990s bars giving funding to any UN body that admits the Palestinians as full members before an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is reached.

"We were to have made a $60m payment to Unesco in November and we will not be making that payment," state department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland told journalists in Washington.

Ms Nuland called the Unesco move "regrettable" and "premature", but said that while continued US funding was impossible, the administration wanted to remain an active member of Unesco.

She also expressed concern over the loss of US influence and the possibility that the same scenario might unfold with other UN agencies. The administration would now consult with Congress to see how to protect US interests, she said.

[...]

For its part, Israel called the vote a "unilateral Palestinian manoeuvre which will bring no change on the ground but further removes the possibility for a peace agreement".

"The Palestinian move at Unesco, as with similar such steps with other UN bodies, is tantamount to a rejection of the international community's efforts to advance the peace process," a foreign ministry statement said.

Peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have been stalled since last year over the issue of Israeli settlement building.

The Israeli statement also said Israel would be considering further steps regarding its co-operation with Unesco.

'Symbolic breakthrough'

Correspondents say Monday's vote is a symbolic breakthrough but that on its own it will not create a Palestinian state.

Comments

[Ernie]

As a Canadian, I was proud to see Canada voted against Palestine's bid. The acronym UNESCO stands for United Nations Educational,Scientific and Cultural Organization does it not. Please let me know which of these if any, has any Palestinian living in the area contributed too. It sure will be a real plus having then on board. I think it's time to pull the plug on the UN. Never thought I'd say that.

[annonymous]

Just one more reason why every single conservative MUST vote for the GOP candidate in 2012, even if the person is far from the ideal candidate. NOT Obama will count for something. The United States, Israel, and the West simply will not survive four more years of a traitor in the WH. At the rate things are going, I hope we make it to election day.

[Marylou]

God bless Congress and John Bolton. Why isn't that man president?

[sheik yer'mami]

"despite strong opposition from the United States and Israel".

The Germans, to their credit, voted against it.

In other news..... global worming, carbon credits, icecaps melting, polar bears dying....

[Xavier823]

This is actually a great day for the American tax payers We save 60 million dollars from going to a U.N. organization. Now we must stay vigilante and make sure president Obummer doesn't go around the congress and secretly fund this organization.

[Ronnie White]

Now the US Dept of Ed. Needs to cut funding and remove the International Baccalaureate Programs frpm our public school districts.

[philipzhao]

Palestine is a member of Destruction of Education and Culture !

[Revnant Dream]

TIme any Nation with an once of integrity get out of this Islamist organization. It no longer stands for Western values. The UN is a Sharia compliant Muslim Body. Why should our dollars go to a group that vows to kill us all every day?

[annonymous]

We simply did what we were legally bound to do. I am waiting to see how the administration will do a work around and slip us in the back door. Anyway, irrespective of this, the Pali's are gaining ground, bit by bit. This is how the Islamisation of the West is happening. What's the expression? Death by a thousand cuts? I see no need for any celebration on this.

[Leo]

A couple weeks before, Palestinians got back several hundreds of prisoners who have killed israelis.

A couple days before, Palestinians launched rockets over Israel from Gaza: every time Palestinians are offered with acts of peace, they retribute in this way.

Now, the Palestinians, got this: UN approval through one of its organisms.

What a way to reward these acts! What a fashion. It´s a very weird thing.

It would be good to know if, as with the Palestinians, the Kurds have the same right to be represented at the UN, beginning inside this very organism: the UNESCO. A people whose existence in a soil was denied almost 100 years ago (due to "deliberations" made by Britain and other nations over the Middle East) and opressed by all the countries whose boundaries were set in those times (Turkey, Syria, Iran, Irak).

In the stream of supporters of this act, those who favoured the palestinians through the UNESCO, would say in chorus "NO" in the event that the Kurds would look for recognition in the UN. What would the UNESCO say if the Kurds look for a seat and a status within the organization? What would be the answer? (specially, due to the fears of reactions from Turkey, Iran and Syria)
What a fashion set by the UN.

[Born Free]

Lock the doors of the UN building and stop all UN funding. Rent the real estate for the big money its worth. Tell UN constituents their free lunch is over, and they should go home by the weekend to find a real job.

Realize the Obama administration had a hand in this despite their attempts to deny it.

Hillary Clinton's team of Islamic Fascists within the State Department worked for it. (Is anyone stupid enough to deny it?)We can also see the handiwork of the evil Samantha Powers and the just as evil US Ambassador to the UN DR Susan Rice. Then of course, let us not forget the duplicitous foreign relations advisor to the President Zbigniew Brzezinski (who was behind Jimmy Carter's handling of the Iran hostage situation). Does anyone think he wasn't a player in this fiasco?

This is what happens when the Left has power. Never forget it.

[Bronfmansteve]

The Holocaust "was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes"

With respect, this is revisionism. The UK, Albania, Czech, Romania, Russia, (Denmark) and other countries had nothing to do with the Holocaust and fought it. I'm not a fan of Europe but this statement just isn't true.

[whatdemocracy]

all free europe participated in the holocaust, not by commission but by omission.

[Brandy]

What is this world coming to? Very sad.

[Quelcrist Falconer]

all free europe participated in the holocaust, not by commission but by omission.

By that standard so did the US when it refused to accept Jewish Refugees...

[Leanora]

Watch out for obama! He is looking for a way to get around congress and give the money to unesco anyway!

http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Obama-UNESCO-funding-Palestinian/2011/10/31/id/416344

Totally illegal, but what does he care?

[KKKK]

as an American and produ supporter of Israel, i laud my country for voting aganist this jihad-based decison of the UNESCO to admit "FALSEtine" as a member. why should we allow illegtimate complaienrs who wiosh to extreminate another country and its people into a leading cultural and scientific group...especialy given they have contributed nothing to sciene or cuture save bombs and terror. i would admit Alice's "Wonderland" or Lucy's "Narnia" before i admit any "FALSetine: to any world organization.

[alyn21]

Perhaps they should also think about admitting Never Never Land and the neation of Atlantis while they are at it.
All of these fake non-existent entities deserve equal treatment.

[Arthur J. Andersson]

"SVT:s hemliga krav på Ana Gina (Dirawi) efter Hitler-inlägget
Gina "Ana Gina" Dirawi jämställde Israels regering med Hitler."
http://nyheter24.se/noje/kandisar/624543-svt-s-hemliga-krav-pa-ana-gina

Pamela, use Google Translate to translate the article from Swedish into English. Pass it on to Robert Spencer.

[you axed]

"John Bolton. Why isn't that man president?"

too many dumbmasses get to vote

[Steve]

Back in the day the UN was a very useful tool for the promotion of International Communism, today it is proving itself to be a very useful tool in the promotion of Islamic Imperialism. On the surface neither of them have much in common but one doesn't have to scratch very deep to realize that both stand in juxtaposition to individual rights and freedoms. It boggles the mind why we in the western democracies allow ourselves to pay for the rope that they will ultimately put around our necks. Remember this when you vote next year, what candidate stood on the side of democracy and which candidate stands with totalitiarism.