Savages Celebrate

The United States provides nearly 1/4 of the funding to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, better known as UNESCO. Because of an upcoming election and fear of losing the Jewish vote, Obama has gone against his typical support for the Palestinians and pretended to oppose Palestinian membership to UNESCO. That should set the violent Muslim world on fire with more anti-American rhetoric and who knows what else.

How does UNESCO respond to the American opposition? The members give their greatest contributor the middle finger and overwhelmingly vote in favor of membership for the savage terror state. Keep in mind that this is not the same vote as the one coming in November for full membership in the UN itself.

Congress has threated to defund the UN organization. Now, we shall have to wait and see what happens. President Obama is finding himself in a pickle. Will he follow his heart and veto such a move by Congress? We shall soon find out.

Read from Now the End Begins:

UNESCO Grants FULL MEMBERSHIP To Palestine

"PARIS — Palestine became a full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly divisive move that the United States and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

U.S. lawmakers had threatened to withhold roughly $80 million in annual funding to UNESCO if it approved Palestinian membership. The United
States provides about 22 percent of UNESCO’s funding.

Huge cheers went up in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after delegates approved the membership in a vote of 107-14 with 52 abstentions. Eighty-one votes were needed for approval in a hall with 173 UNESCO member delegations present.

'Long Live Palestine!' shouted one delegate, in French, at the unusually tense and dramatic meeting of UNESCO’s General Conference.

While the vote has large symbolic meaning, the issue of borders of an eventual Palestinian state, security troubles and other disputes that have thwarted Middle East peace for decades remain unresolved.

Palestinian officials are seeking full membership in the United Nations, but that effort is still under examination and the U.S. has said it will veto it unless there is a peace deal with Israel. Given that, the Palestinians separately sought membership at Paris-based UNESCO and other U.N. bodies.


'Monday’s vote is definitive. The membership formally takes effect when Palestine signs UNESCO’s founding charter.'


The U.S. ambassador to UNESCO, David Killion, said Monday’s vote will 'complicate' U.S. efforts to support the agency. The United States voted against the measure.

Israel’s ambassador to UNESCO, Nimrod Barkan, called the vote a tragedy.

'UNESCO deals in science, not science fiction,' he said. ]They forced on UNESCO a political subject out of its competence.'

'They’ve forced a drastic cut in contributions to the organization,' he said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton last week called UNESCO’s deliberation 'inexplicable,' saying discussion of Palestinian membership in international organizations couldn’t replace negotiations with Israel as a fast-track toward Palestinian independence. source – MSNBC"