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Submitted by gzipped_tar
gzipped_tar writes "The US withdrew funding after UNESCO's Palestine membership vote yesterday. The decision was triggered by a 1994 US law that requires financial ties to be cut with any UN agency that accords the Palestinians full membership. As Palestine actively pursues entrance to other UN agencies, the defunding list could grow. Interestingly, World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) could also be among Palestine's next target, and US is the big supported of WIPO. A much more disturbing scenario is Palestine joining the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), cutting American funding to the organization that monitors nuclear proliferation in states like Iran."
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  • Wow (Score:2)

    by AdamJS (2466928)
    It's amazing that the US has such a single-minded law. "If you're nice to that guy that we're not nice to, we hate you." It's also funny that such a law is so easily used to hurt other US interests. You'd think a team of lawyers would have seen all of these eventualities and had some sort of exemption for them.

  • I think the US acts more like an attack dog for its master. The master points at a country and says "attack", the US then sends its sons and daughters in to kill an enemy that is not their own.

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