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karynnj

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40. UNESCO had nothing to do with "turning it into a garbage dump"

Fri Oct 13, 2017, 05:28 PM

Oct 2017

CONGRESS stopped the payments. Congress ended the funding when UNESCO recognized a Palestinian state. The State Department both lobbied UNESCO to allow us a vote that was loss because of the funding problem and got Netanyahu to drop his objection to the US funding it and to get AIPAC to stay out of the issue. http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/12/kerry-netanyahu-congress-fight-unesco-funding.html

Your characterization of Obama's position is laughably wrong. It seems clear that John Kerry worked very hard to get the funding problem fixed and to stay in the organization. It is not in the US interest to walk away from international groups - when we do we lose the ability to have a voice there.

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US to Pull Out of UNESCO Amid Palestinian Tensions [View all] n2doc Oct 2017 OP

Introducing UNESCO left-of-center2012 Oct 2017 #1

In other words, everything both Cheeto and Netanyahoo are against. sandensea Oct 2017 #39

Supporting Palestine is not anti Israel, it is pro people Not Ruth Oct 2017 #2

...and given they both have similar DNA.... Xolodno Oct 2017 #43

When UNESCO tried to pull leftynyc Oct 2017 #3

They decided that the Cave of the Patriarchs is a Palestinian site Mosby Oct 2017 #7

I'm aware leftynyc Oct 2017 #8

What about everything NON ISRAEL they do? karynnj Oct 2017 #22

I'm sorry, but I can't leftynyc Oct 2017 #33

I was speaking of UNESCO, so your analogy that infers I was speaking of the Palestinians karynnj Oct 2017 #34

I just read it again leftynyc Oct 2017 #37

If aliens came down tomorrow they would gape at the silly shit we fight over... Baconator Oct 2017 #15

I'm just going to leftynyc Oct 2017 #21

That's fine... Baconator Oct 2017 #23

Are we to pretend leftynyc Oct 2017 #24

If you don't think there are people from every interested party... Baconator Oct 2017 #25

I see we're going leftynyc Oct 2017 #26

...because? Baconator Oct 2017 #31

Try learning some HISTORY leftynyc Oct 2017 #32

It's the same bullshit throughout and I d on't think you are capable of seeing it... Baconator Oct 2017 #42

Yes...lets talk history. Xolodno Oct 2017 #45

Of course, NONE of that has leftynyc Oct 2017 #51

That was my point...is it Jewish? Xolodno Oct 2017 #54

As a Jew, I would ask is it not true that Judaism switched from temple worship with animal sacrifice karynnj Oct 2017 #35

I hardly think leftynyc Oct 2017 #38

UNESCO had nothing to do with "turning it into a garbage dump" karynnj Oct 2017 #40

When the "group" leftynyc Oct 2017 #46

They did not and could not "hand the wall" to anyone karynnj Oct 2017 #47

You are trying to make this larger leftynyc Oct 2017 #52

Again, UNESCO can not hand over land anywhere, anytime They do not have that power karynnj Oct 2017 #53

Isn't Israel a member ? TubbersUK Oct 2017 #4

Yes. Israel will be leaving as well. grossproffit Oct 2017 #13

Thanks n/t TubbersUK Oct 2017 #19

This message was self-deleted by its author TubbersUK Oct 2017 #18

NOTHING trump does is good and EVERYTHING he does is told to him to do by Putin Eliot Rosewater Oct 2017 #5

This wasn't done at the behest leftynyc Oct 2017 #10

Ain't it grand? I travel the world to see UNESCO sites and now my country sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #6

Then perhaps leftynyc Oct 2017 #9

Accept nobody has made those sites Judenrein. That's all I'm saying about the sinkingfeeling Oct 2017 #16

25 years ago I could leftynyc Oct 2017 #20

The difference is not because of a UNESCO designation karynnj Oct 2017 #48

Like you, I have enjoyed seeing many of them - most recently Radicofani in Italy karynnj Oct 2017 #36

This is just a symbolic act ripcord Oct 2017 #11

For VERY good reason (n/t) leftynyc Oct 2017 #12

No. alarimer Oct 2017 #27

Pres Obama leftynyc Oct 2017 #29

CONGRESS, not Obama, stopped the payments karynnj Oct 2017 #50

I'm good with this. grossproffit Oct 2017 #14

Tel Aviv cracks the whip and Washington falls in line Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #17

Yes. alarimer Oct 2017 #28

And yet still heads and shoulders leftynyc Oct 2017 #30

No one on DU gives the repressive Sunni or Shia states karynnj Oct 2017 #49

How does that even fucking work? Blue_Tires Oct 2017 #41

This message was self-deleted by its author LudwigPastorius Oct 2017 #44