Obama Ticks Off Occupiers

Poor Obama...hit from the right over, well, nearly everything and from the left when he doesn't follow his far left instincts. Well, in this case he'll get faint praise from the right (for doing what he had to, not necessarily because we believe it's what he wants/believes): US cuts funding for UNESCO after Palestinian vote

The Obama administration cut off funding for the U.N. cultural agency on Monday, after its member countries defied an American warning and approved a Palestinian bid for full membership.

State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the vote triggered a long-standing congressional restriction on funding to U.N. bodies that recognize Palestine as a state before an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal is reached. She said the U.S. as a result would refrain from making a $60 million payment it planned to deliver in November...

The UNESCO vote represented a fallback plan for the Palestinian leadership that presented its plan for U.N. recognition as a state and full membership in the global body in September. Israel has fiercely opposed the bid, and it has no chance of passing because the Obama administration has promised to veto any resolution in the Security Council.

Boy, this is going to make the anti-semitic wing of the Occupiers plenty angry.

Hey, he saved us $60 million, too. He can buy a few failing solar companies for that or some machine guns to give to Mexican drug cartels.