Palestinians get Unesco seat as 107 vote in favour

[Jimbuna]

So are the Palestinians going to replace the 20% loss of funding if the US withdraws their financial support?

[_dgn_]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

So are the Palestinians going to replace the 20% loss of funding if the US withdraws their financial support?

The usual blackmail : if you are not with me, I will punish you ... No more money !!!

[Penguin]

Originally Posted by _dgn_

In order to boycott their products, I think !!!

So do you also boycott countries in which Palestinians have no citizen's rights, like Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, etc, basically all Arab countries?


Or is it because of minority rights? - where is the Basque state?
because of state terrorism? - who did sink the Rainbow warrior again?
Because of the suppression and unjustified killing of civilians? Algeria War?

Yes, let's boycott France!

Originally Posted by _dgn_

No !
Not exactly. Israel is the brain, USA the powerful body. Or another image : Israel on the US shoulders ...

As I stated here in my reply to soopaman: http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...5&postcount=92
Israel does a lousy job in controlling the US, at least in UN resolutions about Palestine:
To relief you of the trouble to click the links, here are they again:
List of resolutions against Israel: http://www.regelsberger.at/privatarchiv/Israel_UN.html
List of Security Council Resolutions on Palestine:
http://www.un.int/wcm/content/site/p...once/pid/11886

funny, all these would not have passed if the USA didn't vote for it or at least stayed neutral

So can you elaborate how Israel controls the USA?

[Hottentot]

That was a costly vote for Unesco, says the Daily Mail (and various other news sources as well, but this was the first English source I found).

Funny. I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I understand the decision is based on the law and it's their money, so they can do whatever they please with it. On the other hand it sounds like a "you voted wrong" situation. When you alone hold 22% of some organisation's funding, you also automatically hold some power over it, like it or not. I hope it doesn't come down to seeing exactly how much power that is.

Originally Posted by Penguin

So can you elaborate how Israel controls the USA?

Trough the drinking water. Duh.