...on the relationship between the US & Allies and the Palestinians and other Arab states. Basically, the fix is is in for Israel since the deal was cut in 47. Then there is that most disputed holy site in Jerusalem, seemingly unresolvable.
It is another powder keg waiting to explode whether due to a newly militaristic Egypt, a desperate Syria or a not-so-paranoid Israel over the aims and intentions of nuclear programs in Iran, just to name a few.
What is rarer is to see Badger so overwrought about a low-grade cultural exchange.
for explaining that so carefully and neutrally Gratefaldean :-)
Sure the Palestinians have played a clever hand here, but their land is one of the world's cultural treasurehouses (not least for Christian heritage) so they should be part of the UNESCO family. To react by collectively punishing the world's common cultural heritage is absurd and vindictive, and to legally commit yourself to that is just short sighted, bad law making.
The decision to "punish" UNESCO isn't something that just happened this week -- it's the result of a 1994 US law that requires withdrawal of funding for any UN agency that recognizes the Palestinians in this manner. I'm not arguing that it's a good or bad thing, just that the law driving the action isn't really a new thing.
Thus the "decision" was made a decade-and-a-half ago and to make it go away would mean that Congress would need to act to rescind the current requirement...which does seem pretty unlikely.
Should the following US World Heritage Sites now be removed from the UNESCO World Heritage Register
Mesa Verde National Park
Yellowstone National Park
Everglades National Park
Grand Canyon National Park
Independence Hall
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
Redwood National and State Parks
Mammoth Cave National Park
Olympic National Park
Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
La Fortaleza and San Juan National Historic Site in Puerto Rico
Yosemite National Park
Chaco Culture
Hawaii Volcanoes National Park #
Monticello and the University of Virginia in Charlottesville
Pueblo de Taos
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
Waterton Glacier International Peace Park *
Papahānaumokuākea
and of course
The Statue of Liberty!!!
are you suggesting that certain States are to be punished for not towing Washington's line?
obviously.
U.S., the pathetic bullies in the playground.
i wonder of you'll get the criticism i usually get.
GR8fulTed where are you?
that news makes me angry, Badger!
So the USA decides to punish (by withdrawing its funding) the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) for voting to allow Palestine to join. Leading the world in democracy eh? This is the harmless UN organisation that promotes culture, world heritage and postiive human achievement. Yeah..we kicked their A-rab loving assess good and proper. Who needs their goddam ruins and shakespeare and shit anyway. Yeeehah.
I find this one pretty unbelievable, but it seems that the German FMS Bank has made a 55 billion euro "booking error". Specifically, on the balance, plus was confused with minus-making the German government 55 billion euros better off than they thought they were. They can wire this mistake to my account. I don't mind, and I would share.
remindes me of the mimers and miners. completely unintentional
Repeat: Iran is not a threat and never will be.
Repeat: Iran is not a threat and never will be.
i agree wholeheartedly with the badger.
short sighted and vindictive? surely, you jest, sir! since when? why, cherry berry apple pie says you're blinkered, my oh my!