UNESCO admits the 'Palestinians'
With 107 nations voting in favor, the United States, Canada and Germany voting against, and Britain (which cannot bring itself to do anything that might be deemed pro-Israel wholeheartedly), UNESCO has decided to admit the imaginary state of 'Palestine' as a member. The United States, Canada, Germany and Holland voted against Palestinian membership. Brazil, Russia, China, India, South Africa and France voted in favor. Britain and Italy abstained.YNet adds:
Washington is likely to cut funding to UNESCO over the vote.
"The action today will complicate our ability to support UNESCO," David T. Killion, US ambassador to UNESCO, told journalists after the vote.
"The U.S. has been clear for the need of a two-state resolution, but the only path is through direct negotiations and there are no shortcuts, and initiatives like today are counterproductive."
The vote highlighted divisions over foreign policy within the European Union, some of whose 27 members voted for and some against Palestinian membership.
Austrian UNESCO ambassador Ursula Plassnik, whose country voted in favor, said she regretted the European Union could not arrive at a common position on the Palestinian issue.
The Palestinians obtained backing from two thirds of UNESCO's members to become the 195th member of UNESCO, with status as "an observer entity". Of 173 countries that voted from a possible 185, 107 voted in favor, 14 voted against, 52 abstained and 12 were absent.
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Israel called the vote a "tragedy."
"This resolution is a tragedy for UNESCO...UNESCO deals in science and not science fiction and nevertheless (UNESCO) adopted the science fiction reality," said Nimrod Barkan, Israel's ambassador to UNESCO.
Israel has said the Palestinian bid would amount to politicization of the agency that would undermine its ability to carry out its mandate.
Huge cheers went up in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after delegates approved the membership in a vote of 107-14 with 52 abstentions. Eighty-one votes were needed for approval in a hall with 173 UNESCO member delegations present.I'm happy about this. UNESCO has a long and rich history of anti-Israel bias, and the American law has no 'national security' out and therefore leaves Obama with no choice but to cut off funding. Let them squirm.
"Long Live Palestine!" shouted one delegate, in French, at the unusually tense and dramatic meeting of UNESCO's General Conference.
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Monday's vote is definitive. The membership formally takes effect when Palestine signs UNESCO's founding charter.
And by the way, what happened to the French? I thought they were going to vote against. Talk about having the courage of your convictions.
UPDATE 5:31 PM
Here's video that will give you some idea of what the vote was like.
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, France, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, UNESCO, Unilateral declaration of independence (UDI)
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:34 PM
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Yet, was this outcome not to be expected? Of course! The vote was not so much as to recognize Palestine as a political entity as it was to present a united front against the existence of Israel.
Israel, indeed all Jews, are viewed at being at the heart of the world's problems. If it were not for the Jews and their God, the world would be near perfect.
Why is this, one might ask?
Because the world cannot stand to be confronted with the truth of Torah, and the existence of a deity who clearly defines what is right/wrong, the moral and immoral thoughts and deeds. To have one's dark and evil lives exposed for what they are, is to be resisted at all costs, even to the killing as many of those that represent the truth as possible. This mindset extends to even to the killing of one's self, in the vain attempt to destroy what they already know in their heart to be eternally true. The technical term for this worldview is 'insanity'.
therefore leaves Obama with no choice but to cut off funding. --------- You would think it would stop him, but I will bet it doesn't stop him from continuing the funding. Hell, knowing Obama he will increase the funding.
Congress is not likely to authorize continued funding to a UN agency that just slapped the US across the face.
UNESCO is just going to have to live without US funding. And the Palestinians' unilateral move has sealed the Israeli conviction there is no further point to Israel's continued adherence to the now defunct Oslo Accords.
The Palestinians have won a Pyrrhic victory. In the end, their illegal accession to UNESCO will bring them no joy.
Time to say goodbye.
Idiot
AP News Alert: US cuts off funding
I did not know that tiny Israel funds 3% of UNESCO. Well at the least, we hope that's gone. Unless Bibi's gone mad.
Does anyone have the full roll call vote?
Obama can care less what Congress has to say. Here is what his press secretary had to say today. CARNEY: Obama will continue to act 'independently' without Congress...
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