https://www.yourish.com/2012/11/30/17075 Cutting straight to the point Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:02:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://www.yourish.com/2012/11/30/17075/comment-page-1#comment-46683 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 19:02:11 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17075#comment-46683 What puzzles me is why the U.S. gives any aid to the Palestinian Authority at all. The majority of the world may be on the side of the Palestinians, but the majority of the American people are not. Judging from the UN vote, there are 138 countries which apparently are more enthusiastic about the Palestinians than the U.S. is. Maybe the PA should get its aid from those countries instead.

]]> https://www.yourish.com/2012/11/30/17075/comment-page-1#comment-46631 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:05:10 +0000 http://www.yourish.com/?p=17075#comment-46631 The US, with 5 percent of the world’s population, pays 22 percent of the UN budget, plus a larger proportion of “peacekeeping” operations. Cut it down to five percent period, so wepay in proportion to our population’s perentage. Indeed, since the UN operates on the basis of one country-one vote, we should pay only 1/192nd (or is that 1/193rd now?) of the UN budget (and one kept at rock-bottom size; the UNers can embezzle enough from that, they don’t need more). That’s a reasonable price to pay for continuing to be able to exercise our veto power in the Security Council in order to prevent SC resolutions against ourselves and our friends and allies.

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