UNESCO grants Palestinians full membership

[docmauser1]

Actually, Palestine has international borders that were defined by the league of Nations in 1922.

So, who was that sheikh, sultan, shakh, emir, president, prime-minister of that "palestine"?

 

[P F Tinmore]

WASHINGTON (IPS) - The administration of US President Barack Obama announced Monday that it would immediately cut US funding for the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, just hours after UNESCO’s governing board voted overwhelmingly to grant Palestine full membership.

But Washington could lose its vote in the agency if it fails to pay dues for two years, she noted. She also expressed concern that Monday’s vote could herald a “cascade” of similar votes in other UN specialized agencies that would require Washington to cut funding to them.

“In the last year alone, dozens of major American companies brought cases before WIPO — the American Automobile Association, Apple, The North Face, Costco and Facebook, to name just a few,” noted former senator Timothy Wirth, president of the UN Foundation in Washington.

“If Palestine joins WIPO, the United States will have to pull out, limiting its ability to steer policies in ways that advance American economic interests and create jobs here at home.”

“As long as these laws remain on the books, Congress is setting the stage for America’s waning influence over international affairs,” wrote Wirth, who called for businesses and non-governmental organizations to “take a stand and urge Congress to give the President the flexible authority needed [to] protect our national security and economic interests.”

UNESCO funding cut over Palestine vote may harm US economy | The Electronic Intifada

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-B61_g8QkQ]Celebrations as Unesco vote to give Palestinians full membership - YouTube[/ame]

 

[P F Tinmore]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taSRVDlQSLE&feature=related]Palestinians' UNESCO membership angers Israel, US - YouTube[/ame]

 

[alexa]

That you done enough neg reps to get back at me again jillian. I sure wish you'd get some therapy. Must be hard sleeping.

 

[High_Gravity]

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, Says Palestine Bid To Join UN Agencies Is 'Not Beneficial For Anybody'

CANNES, France — Palestinian efforts to join U.N. agencies beyond its cultural arm are "not beneficial for anybody" and could lead to cuts in funding sure to affect millions of people, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon warned Thursday.

In an Associated Press interview, the U.N. chief reiterated the world body's support for a viable, independent Palestinian state – but lamented the Palestinian Authority's efforts to join U.N. affiliates before the U.N. itself.

Ban also expressed hope for greater participation of women and youths in Libya's future government, and praised a new Arab League deal with Syria aiming to end President Bashar Assad's bloody crackdown on protesters.

Potential funding woes for U.N. agencies were high in Ban's mind.

The Palestinians have asked the Security Council to grant them full membership in the United Nations – but the United States, a stalwart Israeli ally, has vowed to veto the request. The Security Council committee on admissions will discuss a report on the Palestinian bid on November 11, but no vote is scheduled.

Since their application in September, the Palestinians have sought to join other U.N. agencies in which the U.S. doesn't have veto power on membership issues.

U.S. law bars contributions to organizations that grant membership to territories that aren't internationally recognized states. The United States and Canada are now cutting off funds for UNESCO, stripping it of about one-quarter of its total funding.

The Palestinian Authority plans to apply for membership in 16 other U.N. specialized agencies – even though Ban has repeatedly pressed Palestinians to wait for the U.N. Security Council decision.

"I believe this is not beneficial for Palestine and not beneficial for anybody," he said, noting that U.N. agencies need both financial and political support.

"This will have implications for all the agencies of the United Nations," Ban said. The UNESCO admission means Palestinians could automatically gain membership in the U.N. Industrial Development Organization, which aims to lower poverty and help the environment, and the World Intellectual Property Organization, he said.

Ban said he was also concerned about the possible impact of lower funding for the U.N. trade organization, UNCTAD, if Palestinians gain membership there too.

"When an organization is not properly functioning because of a lack of resources, you have to think about the millions and millions of people who are being impacted and affected," he said.

Ban said he was "asking and urging member states" to make up for the shortfall in funding for UNESCO and other agencies.

One top Palestinian leader shot back at Ban, suggesting the U.N chief should lean on U.S. lawmakers.

"I think it would be easier for Mr. Ban Ki-Moon to ask the Congress to change their laws," Saeb Erekat said. "I don't think Palestine's admittance to any of these agencies will bring harm."

Fresh off a trip to Libya, Ban said he pointed out to leaders of the Transitional National Council, which took over after the fall of Moammar Gadhafi's 42-year regime, that only two women were on its council.

"In the process of drafting legislation and constitutions, and making a new Libya, it is crucially important that womens' rights and opportunities in social, economic and political fields should be promoted," Ban said.

As for Syria, the U.N. chief said his "sincere advice and appeal" to President Bashar Assad was to quickly implement his pledges under a deal with the Arab League announced Wednesday.

Ban Ki-Moon, UN Secretary General, Says Palestine Bid To Join UN Agencies Is 'Not Beneficial For Anybody'

 

[P F Tinmore]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN.

Cool.

 

[High_Gravity]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN.

Cool.

The UN is useless so I could care less.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN.

Cool.

The UN is useless so I could care less.

 

[docmauser1]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN. Cool.

No palistanian UNRWA freeloading. Getting a life and a job! Coool.

 

[Matilda]

UNESCO grants Palestinians full membership

BRAVISSIMO!!!

 

[docmauser1]

UNESCO grants Palestinians full membership BRAVISSIMO!!!

They must be having a shortage of clowns.

 

[PixieStix]

Maybe the UN needs to move it's headquarters out of the US

 

[High_Gravity]

Maybe the UN needs to move it's headquarters out of the US

We give them the most money and pay for their quarters here in the US, fuck that kick their asses out.

 

[P F Tinmore]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN. Cool.

No palistanian UNRWA freeloading. Getting a life and a job! Coool.

Yeah, they should go home and support themselves like they did before Israel gave them the boot.

 

[docmauser1]

Maybe Palestine will bring the demise of the UN. Cool.

No palistanian UNRWA freeloading. Getting a life and a job! Coool.

Yeah, they should go home and support themselves like they did before Israel gave them the boot.

And the addresses and roadmaps to that "home", of course, are, in memorable words of Walid Shoebat "As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door."

 

[Jos]

No palistanian UNRWA freeloading. Getting a life and a job! Coool.

Yeah, they should go home and support themselves like they did before Israel gave them the boot.

And the addresses and roadmaps to that "home", of course, are, in memorable words of Walid Shoebat "As I lived in Palestine, everyone I knew could trace their heritage back to the original country their great grandparents came from. Everyone knew their origin was not from the Canaanites, but ironically, this is the kind of stuff our education in the Middle East included. The fact is that today’s Palestinians are immigrants from the surrounding nations! I grew up well knowing the history and origins of today’s Palestinians as being from Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Christians from Greece, muslim Sherkas from Russia, muslims from Bosnia, and the Jordanians next door."

Walid Shoebat (Arabic: وليد شويبات*) is a Palestinian American Christian convert from Islam[1] who lectures on the dangers of Islamic radicalism[1] and is a strong supporter of Christianity and the state of Israel. Born to a Jordanian Muslim father and a Caucasian American mother, Walid lived in the Occupied Terretories during the early part of his life in the village of Beit Sahour[1], near Bethlehem. Walid claims to have been a former PLO militant[1], responsible for firebombing an Israeli Bank. A CNN investigation of Walid Shoebat's background was unable to locate any PLO[citation needed] or Israeli government records to corroborate his affiliation or participation in any violent acts against Israel.

An apostate Muslim[1] convert to Christianity, Walid Shoebat became a novelty and a frequent guest on cable news talk shows, where he speaks passionately about the dangers of Islam while praising the state of Israel. Critics, including investigative journalists with the Jerusalem Post[citation needed] and CNN[1] have questioned his alleged PLO affiliations, which he cites as the grounds for his authority on the subject of militant Islam.

Walid Shoebat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Where's Walid is Known to lie for Shekels

 

[JStone]

Fakestinians

Former PLO Leader Zuheir Mohsen

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.
Zuheir Mohsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Shaykh Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi, Italian Muslim Assembly

I believe that "Palestinian identity" is something completely artificial: it was forged as a propagandistic tool against Israel. The strange fact is that, at least here in Europe, I have never heard an Arab from the Land of Israel ("Palestine") say: "I am Palestinian."

Please remember that the so-called hero of "Palestinian independence," the pro-Nazi Grand Mufti of British Mandate Palestine, Haj Amin al-Husseini, never claimed that "Palestinians" are to be an independent people: all of his official declarations state that "Palestine must be recognized as a integral part of Syria."
ISRAEL SHOULD DECLARE OSLO NULL AND VOID (Prof. Abdul Hadi Palazzi August, 1998

Guy Milliere, Eminent Professor of History and Political Science, University of Paris

No one had heard of a Palestinian people before the mid-1960s. They did not exist. Israel under the British Mandate until Israel' s Independence in 1948 was called Palestine. All Jews who were born there until i948 had the word « Palestine » stamped on their passports. The current Palestinians are those Arabs who, for a variety of reasons, decided to leave the land during the 1947 War of Independence, when five countries--Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq--attacked the 600,000 people in the fledgling state of Israel the day after its birth, hoping to kill it in the crib.
The War Against Israel Goes On- by Guy Millière | dreuz.info

Fakestinian History

Historian Sir Martin Gilbert, Author of 10 Books on Jewish and Middle East History

On August 18 Yasir Arafat, speaking as head of the Palestinian National Authority in Gaza and Jericho, told Arab youngsters at a summer camp, "Those of you who lit the intifada fire must now act as defenders of this young state, whose capital is Jerusalem. It is Bir Salem [the fountain of Salem]. Salem was one of the Canaanite Kings, one of our forefathers. This city is the capital of our children and our children's children. If not for this belief and conviction of the Palestinian nation, this people would have been erased from the face of the earth, as were so many other nations."

King Salem is a newcomer on the historical scene. No such Canaanite, Jebusite or Philistine king is known to history

Fakestinian Messiahs. Did you know Jesus Christ, the Jewish rabbi who taught from the Torah and observed Passover in the Jerusalem Temple, was REALLY a muslime fakestinian?

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWLyVU0Otlk]Arafat said Jesus was a Palestinian. Palestinian author and TV host agree. - YouTube[/ame]

We’re talking about an ongoing chain [of prophets of the Islam], from Adam to Muhammad. It’s an ongoing chain, representing the call for monotheism, and the mission of Islam… The prophets were all of the same religion [Islam]… Jesus was born in this land. He lived in this land. It is known that he was born in Bethlehem… He also lived in Nazereth, moved to Jerusalem. So he was a Palestinian par excellence…We respect Jesus, we believe in him [as a Muslim prophet], just as we believe in the prophet Muhammad."

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQC0zeQFgJc]Jesus misrepresented as "Palestinian" by Mufti of the Palestinian Authority - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Jos]

You cut half the quote off

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

Mohsen was assassinated on July 25 in 1979 in Cannes, France. The assassination is commonly attributed to the Israeli Mossad
Zuheir Mohsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[JStone]

You cut half the quote off

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

Mohsen was assassinated on July 25 in 1979 in Cannes, France. The assassination is commonly attributed to the Israeli Mossad
Zuheir Mohsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Zuheir Mohsen

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism.
Zuheir Mohsen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia