US and Israel quit UNESCO. I’ll quote the relevant portion buried deep by the BBC;
Hours after the US announced its withdrawal, the Israelis joined in, with Prime Minister Netanyahu saying he had instructed his foreign ministry to begin preparations to leave.
As well as accusing Unesco of bias, the US state department said it was also concerned about mounting financial arrears at the agency and said it should be reformed.
The decision follows a string of Unesco decisions that have drawn criticism from the US and Israel.
Go the whole nine yards and walk out of that disaster.
“The US funds 22% of the UN’s regular budget and 28% of UN peacekeeping.” giving tin pot dictators, communist sympathizers and murderous muslims a platform with our own money
WINNING !!!
The Reagan administration withdrew from the organisation in 1984 – accusing the agency of corruption and an ideological bias towards the then Soviet Union – but the US rejoined in 2002 … Thanks a LOT, Bush …
Oh yeaaahhhh … Trump is just a New York liberal in disguise. Ohhhh yeahhhh … go the NEVER-Trumpers. Ohhhh yeahhhhhh. uh.
And a reminder that IF Obama was successful in his attempt to ILLEGALLY interfere with Israel’s election process … then Israel would have not followed the President’s lead … and would still be a member of an organization dedicated to their destruction.
It’s a start.
MAGA!
“Hey, I’m a nationalist and a globalist,” Trump told the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. “I’m both.”
“And I’m the only one who makes the decision, believe me,” Trump said.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/18/president-trump-urges-united-nations-reform-itself-citing-bureaucracy-and-mismanagement/676226001/
Asked immediately afterward about his message for the New York trip, Trump riffed off his 2016 presidential campaign slogan: “I think the main message is ‘Make the United Nations Great’ – not ‘Again’,” he said.
Yawwwwwwn. stretttttttcchhhhh my arms (and the truth) … yaawwnnnnn. SOS gets ollllllddddd.
And here I thought Unesco was a brand of vegetable oil.
Looks like the organization is charged with global sex education and promoting equality for women. Canada won’t be leaving, but we likely will be footing more of the bill.
// … in 2013, after the US missed several rounds of payments to UNESCO, the organization suspended US voting rights in its core decision-making bodies. So the US hasn’t been a real UNESCO member for a while. Trump is just making that status official — and scoring a domestic public relations coup with pro-Israel, anti-UN conservatives in the process.
“It’s as if a couple who had been living apart for years finally agreed to a divorce,” says Richard Gowan, a scholar at the European Council on Foreign Relations who studies the UN.
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Withdrawing from UNESCO over Israel-related issues scores points with these supporters without having immediately tangible consequences for US security interests. “It’s a relatively low-cost way for the Trump administration to strike a blow against the perceived flaws of the UN system,” Bosco says.
The fact that withdrawing from an international cultural organization makes the US look bad, at a time when the world’s opinion of the US is already free-fall, doesn’t appear to be a major concern.
“Trump will be able to sell the narrative that he is tough on the UN, despite actually walking back from some of his harshest demands for financial cuts. Non-Western countries like China will trumpet that this is a sign of US disengagement from the world,” Gowan tells me. “In a funny way, it’s a win-win!”
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Big Deal.
… an international cultural organization …
Hahahahaha ha aahhhhhh hahah ha haaahahaha a … aa…
Right. I’m so embarrassed now that America isn’t supporting and celebrating the “diverse” cultures of Islam.
MAGA!!!
This is interesting.
Reagan told the soviets that if they want an arms race go ahead, they would lose.
As it was, he made sure of that.
This I’ve heard and seen him saying on TeeVee. Tried to find it on youtube though without success.
Anyway, it seems that Trump wants to starve the socialist, fascist organizations.
If that’s what he is doing, he is on track.
It will be interesting to watch the assorted freeloaders reaction.
Yes, this was a good start.