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Ambassador Power: Defunding UN Agencies for Admitting 'Palestine' Hurts U.S.
cns news ^ | 4/3/14 | Patrick Goodenough

Posted on 04/03/2014 8:59:30 PM PDT by Nachum

(CNSNews.com) – Defunding United Nations agencies that admit “Palestine” is not in the interests of the U.S., Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power argued Wednesday, because doing so constitutes a “double win” for the Palestinians.

Not only do they score by gaining admission to a U.N. body, she told the House Appropriations’ subcommittee responsible for foreign operations, they also benefit by having U.S. influence in that body reduced, making way for the likes of Russia, China and Cuba to take the lead.

Power was arguing for lawmakers to support a waiver to provisions in U.S. law that prohibit funding for any U.N. agency “which accords the Palestine Liberation Organization the same standing as member states.”

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TOPICS: Cuba; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: ambassador; china; cuba; defunding; israel; power; russia; samanthapower; un

1 posted on 04/03/2014 8:59:30 PM PDT by Nachum
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2 posted on 04/03/2014 9:00:15 PM PDT by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Nachum
"Palestine," a region conquered and named by the Romans. Otherwise, there wouldn't be any "Palestinians."

5.56mm

3 posted on 04/03/2014 9:04:20 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Nachum

And there are people that actually claim that the Obama administration is in the thrall of the Jooooos?


4 posted on 04/03/2014 9:12:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I will raise $2M for Cruz and/or Palin's next run, what will you do?)
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To: Nachum

Bump


5 posted on 04/03/2014 9:55:12 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Nachum

This is really baffling dissembling. Doesn’t Samatha Power want double triple quadruple quintuple wins for the Palis?


6 posted on 04/03/2014 10:00:51 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: Nachum

The EXEMPT US Congress is as useless as “O2” on
a sheet of paper to the drowning person.


7 posted on 04/04/2014 3:13:51 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: Nachum

If she had any self-respect she would quit rather than defend our clueless foreign policy.


8 posted on 04/04/2014 6:19:41 AM PDT by Ford4000
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If she had any self-respect she would quit rather than...

From the bit I have read about her, she is on the mission of her life fueled by recycled refuse from her background. It appears she is quite at home in our current marxist flavored regime.

9 posted on 04/04/2014 7:07:48 AM PDT by frog in a pot (We are all "frogs in a pot" now. How and when will we real Americans jump out?)
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10 posted on 04/04/2014 3:44:55 PM PDT by SJackson (the Democrats take back control, we donÂ’t make (this) kind of naked power grab, J Biden)
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Speaking of sentences which make no sense:

> Not only do they score by gaining admission to a U.N. body, she told the House Appropriations’ subcommittee responsible for foreign operations, they also benefit by having U.S. influence in that body reduced...

Dropping US support would NOT make their admission more likely or make it happen, what a liar she is. And if the body admits the jihadists as if they are a nation, then the US already doesn’t have influence.


11 posted on 04/05/2014 11:10:21 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Obama is now making Jimmy Carter look like Attila the Hun. /focus/news/3138768/posts)
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They are using the UN to by-pass the US, Why should she want them to be able to do this?


12 posted on 04/05/2014 11:40:22 PM PDT by RobbyS (quotes)
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