Amy Goodman
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U.S. Pulls All Funding For UNESCO After Sweeping Vote to Support Palestinian Membership
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November 1, 2011
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11:26Now Playingww.DemocracyNow.org - In an emotional — and largely symbolic move — the United Nations cultural organization known as UNESCO overwhelmingly voted to grant membership to the Palestinians, despite opposition from the United States and Israel. Now the United States says it will cancel a $60 million payment due in November to the U.N. body. Membership dues paid by the U.S. account for about a fifth of UNESCO's annual budget. The U.S. is also threatening to veto any Palestinian effort to be recognized by the UN Security Council as an independent state. "By going to UNESCO, this was a way both of gauging both where the public opinion is among the various governments and, more importantly, symbolically for the world, showing this is a moment of recognition that the 20-year old U.S. controlled so-called 'peace process' simply hasn't worked," said Phyllis Bennis, a Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, on Democracy Now! Nov. 1. "It has not brought the Palestinians any closer to reaching their rights, including, but not limited to, statehood, and that the question of what happens to Palestine is not something that can be limited to what the U.S. and Israel say."
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