US Defunds UNESCO After Palestine Vote

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday November 1, 2011 @08:33AM from the in-the-case-of-politics-v-science dept.

gzipped_tar writes "The U.S. withdrew funding after the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization's Palestine membership vote yesterday. The decision was triggered by a 1994 US law that requires financial ties to be cut with any UN agency that accords the Palestinians full membership. As Palestine actively pursues entrance to other UN agencies, the defunding list could grow. Interestingly, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) could also be among Palestine's next target, and U.S. is the big supporter of WIPO. A much more disturbing scenario is Palestine joining the International Atomic Energy Agency, cutting American funding to the organization that monitors nuclear proliferation in states like Iran."

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We don't support terror organizations by Quila · 2011-11-01 08:40 · Score: 1, Flamebait

Any organization that does then should obviously not be funded by us. Pretty simple.
Re:USA against the World? by MrHanky · 2011-11-01 09:00 · Score: 0, Flamebait

s/people/Israel lobby/g
Re:How about not admitting terrorist groups by JohnFen · 2011-11-01 09:17 · Score: 1, Flamebait

The problem is that we're picking sides between two states that each engage in racism, murder, breaking of international laws and treaties, and other assorted evil. To single out one over is stupid and unconscionable.