A Spoiled Culture

The "Palestinians" are now full members of the UN Cultural and Educational Agency (UNESCO). My question is; what culture? Certainly not like Roman culture, with its egalitarian ethos and senate, not like European culture of civilized restraint and grand homes nor the American culture of self-sufficiency and gritty independence. The "Palestinians" are a culture of stagnation, non-productivity, recreated history, violent murder, unending hatred, racism and intolerance based in Islamic doctrine and tenets. If this is the type of culture UNESCO is embracing, we are doomed.

From AP/Yahoo October 31 by Sarah DiLorenzo

Palestine becomes member of UN cultural body

PARIS (AP) — Palestine became a full member of the U.N. cultural and educational agency Monday, in a highly divisive move that the United States and other opponents say could harm renewed Mideast peace efforts.

U.S. lawmakers had threatened to withhold roughly $80 million in annual funding to UNESCO if it approved Palestinian membership. The United States provides about 22 percent of UNESCO's funding.

Huge cheers went up in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after delegates approved the membership in a vote of 107-14 with 52 abstentions. Eighty-one votes were needed for approval in a hall with 173 UNESCO member delegations present.

"Long Live Palestine!" shouted one delegate, in French, at the unusually tense and dramatic meeting of UNESCO's General Conference.

While the vote has large symbolic meaning, the issue of borders of an eventual Palestinian state, security troubles and other disputes that have thwarted Middle East peace for decades remain unresolved.

Palestinian officials are seeking full membership in the United Nations, but that effort is still under examination and the U.S. has said it will veto it unless there is a peace deal with Israel. Given that, the Palestinians separately sought membership at Paris-based UNESCO and other U.N. bodies.

Monday's vote is definitive. The membership formally takes effect when Palestine signs UNESCO's founding charter.

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