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Post by Daniel on Jan 25, 2017 19:03:37 GMT -5
Has the Time Come For Amexit From The UN?
By Kenneth L Marcus/Algemeiner January 25, 2017
As British Prime Minister Theresa May plans a Brexit from the EU, Americans may soon ask what kind of exit we want from another international institution.
In our case, the organization is not the European Union, but the United Nations. Earlier this month, Senators Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced a bill to block taxpayer dollars from going to the UN.
These senators, like many Americans, are incensed by a recent anti-Israel resolution adopted by the world body. But the US' problems with the UN run deeper than one bad resolution.
They are endemic to the institution. At some point, our elected leaders will ask whether the time has come not just to defund, but also to depart -- and then replace the UN with something better.
That point may come sooner rather than later.
more www.prophecynewswatch.com/article.cfm?recent_news_id=963
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Post by Daniel on Jan 25, 2017 19:44:38 GMT -5
Trump could cut ties with UN over its support for the PA
Elad Benari, 25/01/17
The Trump administration is preparing executive orders that would clear the way for the United States to reduce ties with organizations that support the Palestinian Authority (PA) or Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), including the United Nations, officials said Wednesday, according to The New York Times.
The first of the two draft orders, titled “Auditing and Reducing U.S. Funding of International Organizations” and obtained by the newspaper, calls for terminating funding for any United Nations agency or other international body that meets any one of several criteria.
Those criteria include organizations that give full membership to the Palestinian Authority or Palestine Liberation Organization, or support programs that fund abortion or any activity that circumvents sanctions against Iran or North Korea.
The draft order also calls for terminating funding for any organization that “is controlled or substantially influenced by any state that sponsors terrorism” or is blamed for the persecution of marginalized groups or any other systematic violation of human rights, according to The New York Times.
more www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223869
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