In keeping with their Heritage policy of usurping others' religious and historical sites as their own, no doubt, the Palestinians will punish the USA for their NO vote by getting UNESCO to pass a motion declaring that Times Square in New York is a Muslim historical site and the TKTS booth is really a Mosque.

Islamic states are working to have full control over UN and its organizations. Then it is correct of USA to withdraw the economic support.

least this really shows who has power in American politics and its not the American's.

playing when I was a child with kids who had a ball or toy and they said you can play with my ball but if the game does not go well I am going to take my ball back.

its about time that the USA should let those "fools" shoulder the expenses to feed the "stupid", ok? we need the money for our own financial needs in the usa, stop those dole outs, now!

Israel should submit Rachel's tomb in Hebron to UNESCO's World Heritage committee as an ISRAELI site, whcih would throw a nice wrench into the Pals disingenious plans to use the UN as their playground. What goes around comes around Mr. Abbas.

"Arab states braved intense US and French diplomatic pressure to bring the motion before UNESCO's Executive "

Freedom and independence to Palestine is non-negotiable. The earlier you folks accept the 2-state solution (including EJ being the Capital of Palestine) the earlier you will be accepted by the 60 Arab and Muslims States offering the API. Continue to drag feet and you will soon lose your last friend in the region: Abdullah of Jordan.

Why are the Palestinians so anxious to get UNESCO recognition? -- they want to 'submit requests for recognition of potential World Heritage sites'. And which sites are these exactly, the Jewish and Christian sites, of course. Can anyone point to real ' Palestinian historical sites'? A fake people with a fake history continuing to connive, fabricate and lie.

agencies demonstrate how much irrelevant this organization has become in today's world. UNESCO's even intent to bring this question to a vote is indicative how cynical the world has come to be, and no one should accept this cynicism and live by it, no one!!

PA and education - oxymoron.

Listen mate, once and for all. KEEP YOUR HANDS, YOUR EYES AND EVERYTHING ELSE OFF EAST JERUSALEM. Not one square inch is yours historically, morally, legally or culturally. Please cite any soursce that states otherwise. You can have Ramallah if the 2-state solution ever comes into being, but get this: unless you agree to stop the violence and negotiate, you Palis will never get anything, nada, nothing.

Since it was formed, the US John Birch Society has tried to get the US out of the UN for fear of the black helicopters coming in the night to make us all commies. Mike Huckabee is now making calls for the Tea Party Republicans in this effort now. Maybe we'll see the wrecking ball in Manhattan sooner than later. Getting rid of UNESCO and the UN will take the planet back to the good ol' days when men were men and women were grateful. And the fascisti ran Italy and some nut ran Germany. Just change the country names. Then we can look beyond thunderdome.

"The time has come to recognize the U.N. for the anti-American, ANTI-FREEDOM organization that it has become. The time has come for us to cut off all financial help, withdraw as a member, and ask the U.N. to find a headquarters location outside the United States that is more in keeping with the philosophy of the majority of voting members, someplace like Moscow or Peking." Senator Barry Goldwater 1971 Congressional Record

disconnected such that the conclusion does not only not follow but makes no sense. i bet this man is a university graduate from a prestigious university in california. or ben gurian university.

I went to a public university outside of California. I current live surrounded by Birchers. They want the UN destroyed and did from its inception. The US has one real function, preventing world war. That has actually worked for all its other faults. But the world and the US are heading back to a situation where destroying that institution is likely. And with its demise will go its only successful function. The Tea Party crazies are the same people as the John Birch Society, the same people who denounced Eisenhower as a commie stooge, who fear the helicopters coming in the night to take their guns and turn them into zombies praying to the Kremlin. It is all the same people. Those same people also want the US and the planet to devolve to the pre WWI economic system. From that follows anarchy then despotism. The world now, however has nukes in lots of countries.

in the world no something more arrogant from the Bulgarian communist. The strongest communist nomenclature is holed in UNESCO. She and Abbas have completed the same KGB-college

You dictate the terms (You dare say East Jerusalem is not ours historically - excuse me but have you seen that golden dome Jerusalem is known all over the world for?) and call that negotiations? Where have you been since 624 AD? 661 AD: Coronation of Muawiuyah I in Jerusalem. From the period of 624 to 1929, Jerusalem was under Muslim or Christian rule. If the above is not enough, have you had the chance to look at 99% of artifacts uncovered in Jerusalem area? Byzantine, Islamic, and Christian relics is all you can find, so you keep digging, and finding more of OUR relics! Did you have your coffee this morning?

Please do pull out. Without the US, the UN can start making sensible decisions that aren't just vetoed from the off by the selfish US. For a start we could get Palestinian membership.