UN Agency Unesco Votes To Grant Palestinians Statehood…
The ball is now in Obama’s court.
(BBC) — The UN cultural organisation has voted strongly in favour of membership for the Palestinians – a move opposed by Israel and the United States.
Out of 173 countries voting, 107 were in favour, with 14 opposed and 52 abstentions.
Before the vote, the US said it would stop its funding to Unesco if the Palestinians’ bid was accepted.
The UN Security Council will vote in November on whether Palestine should become a full UN member state.
Membership of Unesco — perhaps best known for its World Heritage Sites — may seem a strange step towards statehood, says the BBC’s Jon Donnison, in Ramallah, but Palestinian leaders see it as part of a broader push to get international recognition and put pressure on Israel.
This is the first UN agency the Palestinians have sought to join since submitting their bid for recognition to the Security Council in September.
Under U.S. law the government is required to defund any organization that grants the Palestinians statehood, shockingly, the Obama admin is considering asking Congress to waive the law.
(Politico) — Under existing federal law, the American government must cut off funding for any international body that grants membership status to the Palestinian Authority. That includes not only UNESCO, which helps pave the path for U.S. companies to do business in developing countries, but also the related World Intellectual Property Organization, which resolves international disputes over music, movies and software.
That puts the administration is in a bind: The White House supports UNESCO’s mission, but even if it wanted to ask Congress to waive the law — and that would be a big political risk with Jewish voters and donors — there’s almost no chance that a waiver request would be granted. Still, it’s no small thing to just write off UNESCO.
The potential consequences to American businesses are important enough that the State Department has invited representatives of about two dozen technology and pharmaceutical companies and associations to participate in a discussion of the matter in Foggy Bottom Monday afternoon.
Posted by ZIP on Monday, October 31, 2011, at 9:25 am | 
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Sundown at the OK corral. Don’t blink Barry.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization stated purpose is to contribute to peace and security by promoting international collaboration through education, science, and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, the rule of law, and the human rights.
This move will do anything but contribute to peace and security.
It’s sort of like using Executive Orders to find a way around the usual accepted process.
They probably consulted with Barry on the method.
Palestinian
Education
Scientific
Cultural
One of these things are not like the others.
UNESCO recognizes Jewish heritage sites as only muslim..
no bias there.. nope.. none at all
All they need now is land.
Actually, sand.
I didn’t believe in the devil before, but what’s going on now, in front of my eyes is beyond anything that I thought that the world would ever allow again.
The evil, murdering, hate monger, bastard Palistinian Nazis, aided by the brotherhood of hated, in collaboration with Anti semitic countries have joined with……the devil, I guess. Nothing will suffice them, in leu of intellegence, and history we are heading only one way for this. It cant end well, can it? This is what comes from a leader who does’nt believe in our Judeo Christian heratige and share our values. G-d help Israel through these times, and us as well.
And reagan pulled us out of this rotten UNESCO Its time to pull out of these terrorists supporting UNITED NATIONS
Just a little FYI on where UNESCO has been…so really no surprises about where they are or where they’ll go.
“As Julian Huxley, the vice president of Britain’s Eugenics Society (1937-44), had announced in 1946, “even though it is quite true that radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.” Huxley was then director-general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).”
State Dept.: U.S. will withhold $60 million in funding to UNESCO that was due in November after vote on Palestinian membership.
via Fox News
Cut the money now.
Today………..
No more………….period………..
Because Palestine has made so many “Educational, Scientific and Cultural” contributions to the world.
US to withhold funds from UNESCO….
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/10/31/us-could-withhold-funds-to-un-agency-after-vote-to-grant-membership-to/
Now we wait and see if Barry finds a way to get around Congress on this.