The Obama administration has once again poked a finger in Congresses eye. Last fall, the United Nations agency UNESCO recognized the Palestinians by admitting them as a member. Current U.S. law mandates defunding of any U.N. organization that formally recognizes this terrorist sponsored state. But that didn’t stop the usurpers in the White House from budgeting UNESCO.(CNSNews.com) – The Obama administration’s envoy to the United Nations argued on Capitol Hill Tuesday that defunding the United Nation’s cultural agency because it admitted “Palestine” hurts America’s interests more than it does those of the Palestinians.
Appearing before the House Appropriations’ subcommittee responsible for foreign operations, Susan Rice was questioned about the administration’s fiscal year 2013 request for $79 million for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
She described UNESCO as “essentially an anti-extremist organization,” saying that it does “essential work, from girls’ education to tsunami warning, that serve U.S. interests.”
Members of the United Nations know our law. Yet, this agency purposefully admitted “Palestine” knowing full well that defunding would be the consequence. It seems they - like this president - are willfully testing the resolve of the American people.
Appearing before the House Appropriations’ subcommittee responsible for foreign operations, Susan Rice was questioned about the administration’s fiscal year 2013 request for $79 million for the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.
She described UNESCO as “essentially an anti-extremist organization,” saying that it does “essential work, from girls’ education to tsunami warning, that serve U.S. interests.”
Members of the United Nations know our law. Yet, this agency purposefully admitted “Palestine” knowing full well that defunding would be the consequence. It seems they - like this president - are willfully testing the resolve of the American people.
Obama’s U.N. ambassador admits that in today’s world, the standing of the United States doesn’t have the gravitas it once had:
But Rice disputed the notion that the 1990 and 1994 laws serve as a successful deterrent today.
But Rice disputed the notion that the 1990 and 1994 laws serve as a successful deterrent today.
When the laws were created, she told the panel, “the world was a very different place – the process of pursuing a negotiated two-state solution was, you know, in a very different place.”
Back then, Rice said, the law did have the deterrent effect, as intended.
“It no longer does,” she said, noting that “the Palestinians and the rest of the world knew about the legislative restrictions before they took the vote in UNESCO” and went ahead anyway.
Should the P.A. decide to go ahead with applying to join other U.N. bodies, Rice continued, the law’s existence would likely not deter a majority of U.N. member states from voting to admit “Palestine.”
In the case of UNESCO, Rice suggested that the Palestinians achieved both membership and the additional benefit of seeing the decline of U.S. influence in the agency. (Once a UNESCO member is two years in arrears, it loses its voting rights.)
The world is a different place today, because we have a president who is a self-loathing American; and the whole world knows it. Worse, they know Obama will defy our Constitution and elected representatives. Why is that? Because he has done it before. They are betting he will fund UNESCO against our will.
Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-ambassador-un-defends-obama-s-decision-restore-unesco-funding
The world is a different place today, because we have a president who is a self-loathing American; and the whole world knows it. Worse, they know Obama will defy our Constitution and elected representatives. Why is that? Because he has done it before. They are betting he will fund UNESCO against our will.
Source: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/us-ambassador-un-defends-obama-s-decision-restore-unesco-funding
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