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US to leave UNESCO
- romanovcode 9y ago> UNESCO declared the old city in Hebron, a West Bank town that includes the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a Palestinian World Heritage Site, a move Israel claims negates Judaism’s links to the biblical town. What a petty reason to leave. Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?
- porfirium 9y agoThe US politics, the US justice, the US media... But don't say it too loud!
- danharaj 9y agoThe current US administration believes that Israel is more important to their geopolitical strategy than UNESCO. Insinuating that it's Israel that runs US politics is anti-semitic. You clearly don't have to jump to that conclusion to figure out why the US is taking this action.
- gambiting 9y agoI hate that in US saying anything remotely socialistic gets you branded as a communist, and saying anything against Israel gets you branded as antisemite.
- tome 9y agoDo you think that "Guess it shows who is really running the US politics?" counts as merely "something" against Israel?
- danharaj 9y agoYou know, it's funny. Because I'm very critical of Israel's occupation of Palestine (for example, I believe they're occupying Palestine with their military), and I support BDS. These positions are strong enough that they have seen retaliation from several institutions, including state governments. And yet, somehow, I can tell that insinuating that Israel controls the US government is anti-semitic. Weird.
- jklinger410 9y agoIs saying that crony capitalists control the government communist? Asking for a friend. Please don't dox me!
- danharaj 9y agoCrony capitalist is a pleonasm.
- jklinger410 9y ago>Insinuating that it's Israel that runs US politics is anti-semitic And so continues the saga of "The Lowest Bar in the World" an anti-semitism story.
- JBReefer 9y ago2015 HN: Changes to dotnet core api 1.0.1 2017 HN: The Jews control US politics. I'm out, fuck this.
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- jklinger410 9y agoBreaking News: JBReefer to leave HackerNews after one comment about America's strange relationship with Israel.
- zzalpha 9y agoThis is what flagging us for. Get it off HN. As another commenter noted, this topic is important, but doesn't belong here.
- Y_Y 9y agoBear in mind that Israel is still a member and hasn't announced any intention to leave.
- Y_Y 9y agoThis was true at time of writing, but now they've announced they'll leave.
- tome 9y ago> Guess it shows who is really running the US politics? Could you be more explicit about what you mean please?
- jklinger410 9y agoPardon me if I'm being pedantic. But I think the commenter was saying that the Jews ostensibly control certain aspects of American foreign policy.
- ceejayoz 9y ago> Guess it shows who is really running the US politics? American evangelicals, who've made over-the-top performative support for the state of Israel part of their "bring on the End Times" religion? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_the_Jews https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conversion_of_the_Jews) It's certainly not Israel, given that they're still in UNESCO.
- vixen99 9y agoIs 'petty' the right word? I guess any reference to history could be petty in that case. "Hebron is part of the West Bank, a territory captured by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war. The international community considers it to be occupied.". Perhaps 'recaptured' is a better word given that "Hebron was one of the last cities of Palestine to fall to the Islamic invasion in the 7th century, possibly the reason why Hebron is not mentioned in any traditions of the Arab conquest" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebron No, I'm not supporting either side, merely objecting to the word 'petty'.
- sitkack 9y agoDoes this mean we can sell our parks to the Chinese now?
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- gigatexal 9y agoI think the UN is inept at most things but UNESCO I I think is worth staying on for. As an American I am so dissatisfied and ashamed of our current president — a pumpkin of a man.
- rdtsc 9y agoAgreed, UNESCO is one part of UN I hear about in a positive context. Granted I heard more about its activities outside the US, but still I think this is unfortunate.
- kylecordes 9y agoThis is a really important topic, but the Internet is full of other forums for it. Can we keep hacker news for things at least a little more closely related to its traditional discussion domain? I flagged this item, something I have done with things that make the front page maybe twice over the last several years.
- theyregreat 9y agoWTH?