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**A MUST READ OF THE ENTIRE ARTICLE***
The ties that bind
From WorldNet Daily:
By Aaron Klein
March 29, 2011
WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS
Another stunner behind Obama’s Libya doctrine
You won’t believe who helped devise policy used by president
TEL AVIV – A staunch denier of the Holocaust who long served as the deputy of late PLO leader Yasser Arafat served on the committee that invented the militarydoctrineused by President Obama as the main justification for U.S. and international airstrikes against Libya.
As WND first reported, billionaire philanthropist George Soros is a primary funder and key proponent of theGlobalCentre for Responsibility to Protect, the world’s leading organization pushing the militarydoctrine. Several of the doctrine’s main founders sit on multiple boards with Soros.
The doctrine and its founders, as WND reported, have been deeply tied to Obama aide Samantha Power, who reportedly heavily influenced Obama in consultations leading to the decision to bomb Libya. Power is the National Security Council special adviser to Obama on human rights.
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Now it has emerged that Palestinian legislator Hanan Ashrawi served on the advisory board of the 2001 commission that originally founded Responsibility to Protect.
That commission is called the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty. It invented the term “Responsibility to Protect,” while defining its guidelines.
Ashrawi is an infamous defender of Palestinian terrorism. Her father, Daoud Mikhail, was a co-founder of the PLO with Arafat. The PLO was engaged in scores of international terrorist acts and was declared a terrorist group by the U.S. in 1987.
During the First Palestinian Intifada, or war of “resistance” against Israel, in 1988, Ashrawi joined what was known as the Intifada Political Committee, which sought to advance Palestinian goals through both politics and “resistance.” She served there until 1993.
In 1991, Arafat appointed Ashrawi to serve as the PLO’s Minister of Higher Education and Research. The Palestinian school system is notorious for its glorification of “martyrdom,” or suicide bombings, and has long preached against the existence of Israel.
Discover the Networks notes Ashrawi has long defended the Hamas terror group as a legitimate component of the Palestinian “political spectrum.”
She has stated she does not “think of Hamas as a terrorist group.”
“We coordinate [with Hamas] politically,” she said in April 1993, “the people we know and talk to are not terrorists.”
In 1998 Ashrawi founded MIFTAH, anonprofitthat seeks to undermine Israel’s legitimacy and refers to that Jewish state’s 1948 creation as “Al Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.”
Ashrawi has long been a Holocaust denier. In the July 2, 1998, edition of the official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, she published an article calling the Holocaust “a deceitful myth, which the Jews have … exploited to get sympathy.”
In 2001 Ashrawi became a spokeswoman for the Arab League.
Notably, Amre Moussa, Secretary General of the Arab League, served as an adviser to the same 2001 commission that invented the “Responsibility to Protect”doctrine.
Ashrawi, meanwhile, was a protégé and later colleague and close friend of late Columbia University Professor Edward Said, another notorious apologist for Palestinian terrorism.
Said was replaced by Rashid Khalidi, a close personal friend to Obama.
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Don’t Be FOOLED America; YOU and the ISRAELI people are being played in the game of military doctrine called the Responsibility to Protect plan…….Obama’s Lybia “plan” has NOTHING to do with Lybia. It has EVERYTHING to do with utilizing/initiating/employing the Responsiblity to Protect plan through the United Nations.
U.S. Dues and Contributions to the United Nations
There are two sources of funding for the UN and its agencies:
- Assessed contributions that finance the UN’s regular budget, peacekeeping operations, and specialized agencies like the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); and
- Voluntary contributions to funds and programs such as the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) as well as subsidiary organizations of the UN.
The current payment structure for UN regular budget dues sets maximum and minimum rates for all nations. The maximum “ceiling” rate is 22 percent. The minimum “floor” rate for poorer countries is 0.001 percent. The U.S. pays the maximum rate and has negotiated several reductions in this rate over time, the most notably from 25 percent to 22 percent. The assessment rate is primarily determined by per capita income, of which the U.S. has one of the highest in the world.
The U.S. assessed contribution to the UN’s regular budget is included, along with 43 other UN-system, regional, and non-UN organizations, in the State Department’s Contributions to International Organizations (CIO) account. Since the 1980s, the U.S. has deferred payments to international organizations through this account by withholding dues payments by at least nine months—into the next fiscal year. The fiscal year for international organizations begins on January 1, but the U.S. does not provide payment until October 1 or when the foreign operations appropriations bills pass. This delay leaves the U.S. chronically behind and requires international organizations to take fiscally undesirable measures to meet their payroll and other obligations, including extensive internal and external borrowing.
Paying Our Dues: UN Peacekeeping Budget
Although the UN’s peacekeeping budget is separate from the regular budget it is also financed by assessments to member states. The UN’s peacekeeping assessment formula mirrors the regular budget rate structure but gives greater discounts to poorer nations. The resulting funding deficit is compensated for by the five permanent members of the Security Council, the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, Russia, and China. Each of these five has
unique voting and veto rights at the Security Council to authorize or suspend any peacekeeping operation. While the permanent members of the Security Council pay a slightly higher rate, the vast majority of UN peacekeepers come from developing countries such as: Pakistan; Bangladesh; Nepal; and Ghana.
The U.S. assessed contributions to the UN’s peacekeeping operations are funded through the State Department’s Contributions to International Peacekeeping Activities (CIPA) account. For any mission, which must be approved by the U.S. in the Security Council, other countries pay almost 75% of the costs.
Current Funding Levels for UN Regular & Peacekeeping Budget
Last year, Congress returned the U.S. to good financial standing at the UN and honored its obligations by fully funding the regular and peacekeeping budgets. In addition, the U.S. paid its arrears to the UN.
In the coming year, we ask that Congress maintain its support. Full funding for the UN ensures it can carry out its vital humanitarian, peacekeeping, democracy-building, and development work, all of which serves U.S foreign policy interests. As the U.S. is the UN’s largest contributor, Congressional funding shortfalls significantly impact the UN’s ability to carry out its operations. It is critical that Congress fully meet its commitments to the UN regular and peacekeeping budgets.
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US lawmaker defends UN payments
(AFP) – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — A lawmaker from President Barack Obama’s Democratic Party called Monday for the United States to keep up its financial support for the United Nations as he met with UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
Representative Mike Honda, as former head of the Asian American caucus in the US Congress, led a delegation of five lawmakers for talks in New York with the secretary-general and other senior officials.
“If we don’t continue our dues-paying role, we don’t have a platform to stand on to be able to take a role in the UN, and we wouldn’t have the moral ground to criticize anybody,” Honda told AFP after the meeting.
The United States is the biggest contributor to the United Nations, paying more than 2.5 billion dollars to the UN peacekeeping and regular budgets last year.
Obama on taking office in 2009 pledged to pay dues on time. But the rival Republican Party, which swept November elections, has pledged to cut spending on foreign programs including contributions to the United Nations.
Honda said Ban told the lawmakers that there was “such a lift in the UN” when Washington came forward with its dues and that it returned the United States to its “proper place” in the world body.
[***NOte added here***......"Proper Place" in the WORLD? What happened to Obama's speech about exceptionalism?]
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