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Titolo: U.S. Move to Block Palestine in UNESCO Doomed to Fail

La Lobby "sionista" in azione.
Ciò che colpisce nel comportamento di quelli che dovrebbero essere 
rappresentanti del popolo americano è che non si curano affatto degli 
interessi del popolo americano: la loro cura è tutta rivolta agli 
interessi del popolo israeliano.  Per meglio dire: agli interessi che il 
governo di destra al potere in Israele indica come interessi del popolo 
israeliano.
Non si curano nemmeno della funzione dell'UNESCO: se a loro giudizio le 
sue scelte vanno contro gli interessi del governo di Israele sono 
disposti a distruggerlo o, quantomeno, a ricattarlo col taglio dei 
finanziamenti.
La novità è che si sentono tanto forti da non darsi nemmeno più la pena 
di mascherare la loro azione con qualche forma di interesse riferito 
agli USA.
Qui siamo oltre alla doppia fedeltà, siamo alla fedeltà esclusiva.
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U.S. Move to Block Palestine in UNESCO Doomed to Fail
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 7, 2011 (IPS) - Despite a slim chance of diplomatic 
victory, the United States is leading a doomed, mostly Western attempt 
to block Palestinian membership in the U.N. Educational, Scientific and 
Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
The 193-member General Conference, UNESCO's policy-making body, is 
expected to ratify Palestine's membership during its weeklong session 
beginning Oct. 25.
The application was approved by the agency's 58-member executive board 
earlier in the week.
But the administration of President Barack Obama is lobbying heavily, 
under pressure from Israel and pro-Israeli members of Congress and 
senators, to stall the Palestinian membership - even threatening to cut 
off funds to the Paris-based U.N. agency if it recognises the political 
legitimacy of Palestine.
Asked Palestine's chances of clearing the U.S. political hurdle, Dr. 
Dayan Jayatilleka, Sri Lanka's ambassador to France and permanent 
delegate to UNESCO, told IPS, "Here in Paris, the Palestinians feel 
their chances are good, because the General Conference is widely 
representative of the world, of global opinion - although the world's 
most powerful establishment will probably throw its considerable weight 
on the scales to prevent a decision."
Predicting that the vote will take place somewhere during the last week 
of October, he pointed out that a two-thirds majority is needed for 
approval of membership.
"It will be a high intensity, high stakes diplomatic battle which 
requires considerable political consciousness and mobilisation on a 
world scale," said Jayatilleka, a former ambassador and permanent 
representative to the United Nations in Geneva.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has asked UNESCO to 
re-think its decision.
"Unfortunately, there are those who, in their enthusiasm to recognise 
the aspirations of the Palestinian people, are skipping over the most 
important step, which is determining what the (Palestinian) state will 
look like, what its borders are, how it will deal with the myriad issues 
that States must address."
Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, a Republican Congresswoman from the state of 
Florida and chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has warned 
that any decision to upgrade the Palestinian mission's status by UNESCO 
or by any other U.N. agency "will lead to a cutoff of U.S. funds to that 
entity."
Currently the United States pays about 22 percent of the UNESCO's 
regular budget of just over 300 million dollars annually.
These "assessed contributions" by member states are mandatory and based 
on each country's capacity to pay.
Additionally, UNESCO also has an annual 200-million-dollar budget funded 
by voluntary contributions from member states, including the United 
States, which provides less than one million dollars.
Dr. Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia 
University, told IPS the United States is already out of step with the 
rest of the world, and will be even more so if it goes ahead with this 
threat.
Such short-sighted moves, made entirely for domestic partisan reasons, 
he said, will gravely harm U.S. interests and influence in the U.N., in 
the Middle East and throughout the world.
"Outside the bubble of unreality which is American-Israeli official 
discourse on Palestine, no one can fathom why the policy of the United 
States is so at odds with its stated principles of support for the 
self-determination of peoples and for Palestinian statehood," Khalidi said.
Asked about the U.S. threat, Jayatilleka told IPS, "As I said during the 
session which passed the historic resolution, UNESCO is the ethical 
vanguard of the U.N. system."
UNESCO has been, is and seeks to remain the hub of education, of ideas, 
of culture, of ethics, of philosophy, of humanism and of higher values 
within the international system, he said.
"I don't think that these ideals will be compromised and I feel 
confident that UNESCO will continue to make a valuable contribution," he 
said.
Last month, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formally submitted 
Palestine's application for full membership in the United Nations.
But the United States has threatened to veto the resolution if it comes 
up before the 15-member Security Council.
In such an event, it is likely that Palestine will seek enhanced 
observer status in the 193-member General Assembly, which requires only 
a simple majority.
But support for Palestine is so strong that it may end up getting an 
overwhelming majority - far beyond the simple majority needed.
Jayatilleka said that while addressing the General Assembly last month, 
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa rightly said that despite 
repeated references in the Assembly by many member countries on the 
right of the Palestinian people to a state of their own within secure 
borders, "we still have not been able to make it a reality."
"It is a matter for profound disappointment that this has not yet 
happened. There is a window of opportunity now and we must make use of 
it before it is too late. It is time for decisive action rather than 
more discussion. And this will be in the interest of the security and 
the wellbeing of the entire region, including Israel," the president said.
"If UNESCO admits Palestine this month," said Jayatilleka, "it will 
constitute precisely an example of such decisive action rather than more 
discussion."
(END)
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 interessi del popolo israeliano.
E' una idiozia antisemita, naturalmente.
Ma ï¿œ molto divertente che venga da un pirla antisemita che si riteneva 
l'unico baluardo contro l'imminente isolamento e distruzione di Israele. 
Che ora, invece, a sentire lo stesso pirla, domina il mondo piï¿œ che mai: 
stampa, politica europea, politica USA, Arabia Saudita.... tutto nostro.
Alla faccia dell'isolamento.
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Dead men may not talk, but they also don't lie.  [Chuck Hawks]