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Via CNS News:

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.”

That legal requirement forced the Obama administration to defund the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization after it became the first U.N. agency to admit the Palestinian Authority, in late 2011. For two years the administration sought a waiver, without success, and last November the U.S. lost its voting rights at UNESCO as a result of being two years in arrears.

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