Non-existent state accepted into UNESCO
Anne's Opinions
Pastafajoule Commentary: Not only should UNESCO's funds be cut but for every nation that voted with UNESCO in favor to let Palestine become a member of UNESCO should also have their funds stopped. Why Should UNESCO be the only one funds be cut off. Egypt which gets something like 3 billion dollars should not get funds. Jordan who voted in favor of Palestine receives funds from the United States of America.
The Us should stand by it decision and not play footsies with enemy of Freedom and the USA.
As always Arabs have been deceitful and certainly the will never change. Its time for Israel's Allies to stand firm and make a decisive statement to those who are against Peace. A stand against those who will lie and kill in the name of their religion, mainly Muslims and those who worship the devil as illustrated in the Islamic Koran.
Obama, I am sure will sweep all of this under the carpet and wait to see what gives in favor of the mutants of Islam.
Friends like Pakistan should have their funds cut off. Since the war against the hooded mutant killers Pakistan have done everything they could to impair the fight against the radicals. They have protected them and hide them for years while our soldiers were butchered mercilessly by Al Qaeda and their army of fighters from the Taliban.
When is it enough enough?
Posted on 1 November 2011 by anneinpt
Palestinian culture
for UNESCO
As threatened earlier this month, UNESCO accepted “Palestine” (which doesn’t
actually exist, in case anyone has forgotten) into their organization.
Palestinians won entry to UNESCO on Monday, scoring a symbolic
victory in their battle for full UN membership, prompting the US to cut its
funding to the body and warn with ally Israel that the move harmed hopes for
peace.
“The general conference decides to admit Palestine as a member
of UNESCO,” said the resolution that was adopted to loud applause by 107
countries, with 14 voting against and 52 abstaining.
“Accepting Palestine into UNESCO is a victory for (our) rights,
for justice and for freedom,” Mahmud Abbas’ spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina quoted
the Palestinian president as saying.
Palestinian foreign minister Riyad al-Malki, who was at the UN
cultural body’s Paris headquarters for the vote, hailed “a historic moment that
gives Palestine back some of its rights,” while Israel said it distanced peace.
“This is a unilateral Palestinian manoeuvre which will bring no
change on the ground but further removes the possibility for a peace
agreement,” the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.
The United States said it would cut its funding to the
international body, which amounts to about 22 percent of UNESCO’s annual
budget.
…
Nuland said the Palestinian admission “triggers longstanding
(US) legislative restrictions which will compel the United States to refrain
from making contributions to UNESCO.”
The United States, Israel’s top ally, in the 1990s banned the
financing of any UN organization that accepts Palestine as a full member.
…
Following the vote, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton had
urged nations to maintain their support for UNESCO.
“This is about peace, identity, culture, heritage and freedom of
expression,” she said. “The EU therefore urges all parties to pause for
reflection before taking precipitate actions.”
France, which had voiced serious doubts about the motion, in the
end approved it along with almost all Arab, African, Latin American and Asian
nations, including China and India.
Besides Israel and the United States, Canada, Australia and
Germany voted against it, while Japan and Britain abstained.
Israel’s ambassador Nimrod Barkan slammed countries that “have
adopted a science fiction version of reality by admitting a non-existent state
to the science organisation…. UNESCO should deal in science not science
fiction.”
The United States, acting much faster than I expected, stood by
their promise and immediately cut
off their UNESCO funding.
The United States has made good on its threat to
cut off funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) following the Paris-based agency’s vote Monday to accept
the Palestinian Authority as a member.
State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland announced at a
briefing Monday the administration had no choice in the matter, and would not
make its $60 million payment in November to the agency.
A longstanding law that prohibits U.S. support for any United
Nations-affiliated body that accepts Palestinian Authority membership precludes
funding the international body, she said.
At present, Washington provides 22 percent
of UNESCO’s budget – its largest source of funds.
Our stalwart Canadian
friends are also reconsidering their role in UNESCO, who must
bear in mind that Canada contributes $10 million annually.
Israel
too is considering all its options, including “green-lighting
sensitive housing projects”.
Israel is considering approving several
“sensitive” housing plans in response to UNESCO’s Monday vote
admitting the Palestinian Authority as a full member in the organization.
…
The controversial vote prompted Foreign Minister Avigdor
Lieberman to announce that Israelwould “review its relations” with the United
Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization; and the United States
announced it was suspending the financial support given to the agency.
A short sharp reminder of why the Palestinians should not have been
admitted into UNESCO (existent state or not) is provided by an NGO monitoring
tolerance in school education:
The Palestinian Authority does not meet the UNESCO
recommendations for becoming a full member in the international organization,
according to a study published on Monday by IMPACT-SE – the Institute for
Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education.
IMPACT-SE is a research organization that monitors and analyzes
schoolbooks and curricula across the Middle East with an eye toward determining
their compliance with international standards on peace and tolerance, a goal
derived directly from UNESCO declarations and resolutions.
“The monitoring of the Palestinian schoolbooks in use for the
school year 2011 shows that the fundamentals against Israel and the Jews are
upheld,” the study concluded.
It said that the fundamentals included negating both Israel and the Jews.
Israel, for example, is not mentioned among the states of the
Levant (which presently consists of the states of Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and
Syria as well as the Palestinian territories) and Jewish holy places are never
mentioned as such. For instance, Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem is presented as the
Bilal bin Rabah Mosque.
According to the study, the Jewish and Hebrew identity of
Palestine under the British Mandate is stricken out. One illustration twists a
stamp of Palestine under the British Mandate by erasing the Hebrew term ERETZ
ISRAEL PALESTINA.
The study also found that there was continued demonization of
both Israel and the Jews in the books. Jews are described, among others, as
violating treaties, getting rich unduly, deceitful, murdering children,
disemboweling women and invading snakes. They are never presented in neutral or
positive terms.
…
“The Oslo accords and the Declaration of Principles are mentioned
and even quoted, but they are not praised and a peacefully negotiated
settlement is not advocated or supported,” said the authors of the study.
“In contrast, there is a lot of praise for jihad and martyrdom
to free Palestine without defining clearly the territory to be liberated, hence
implying that Israel’s territory is also to be liberated.”
…
The Shoah is not mentioned at all, though one ambiguous passage
reads as follows: “The Jewish question is first and foremost a European
problem.”
If UNESCO considers all that mis-education and brainwashing
“culture and heritage” perhaps they deserve to have “Palestine” pollute their
organization.
Elder of Ziyon has a couple of posts about Palestinian “culture”
and why they do not belong in UNESCO. The picture at the top of this post
was in
one of his articles; here is another brilliant
creation of his in the other article:
More Palestinian
culture for UNESCO
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