if we had not been part of that council, again, which many people objected to, we wouldn t have been able to have taken that action. also u.s. in another news report, u.s. ambassador to the u.n. human rights council eileen chamberlain donna who said, took a strong position, and she made the statement, the united states on monday urged the united nations human rights council in geneva to stop its biased treatment of israel. it took particularly issue with agenda item 7 on which and this is something i ve been complaining about. as long as i ve been on this session. every single session the united states council has put an item on it, on their agenda with regard to israel, and, she said, the united states continues to be deeply troubled by the council s bias and disproportionate focus on israel, as exemplified by the standing agenda item. i think it s very important that the united states became part of this council, and i want to applaud the secretary of state and your
are looking at is that the immediate halt in the u.s. funding sent a powerful message to all other u.n. bodies as well as the palestinians that the u.s. is serious about its intent for negotiated peace. i agree with you unesco does good work. the concern is that resuming that funding at this time would send the wrong message to the palestinians at this particular time. and i appreciate your willingness to work with this committee in trying to come up with how to deal with a waiver thank you. sorry. i could hear you. okay. as long as you were able to hear me. a waiver in which the president has put in his budget and which you ve described because i think it s important, again, sending that message right now is a concern we have with the unesco. let me also and this is kind of jumping over to israel. while we greatly appreciate, and i personally appreciate your ongoing efforts to defend israel at the united nations, nonetheless, i think israel continues to be singled ou
each of these circumstances, syria, libya, yemen, egypt, tunisia, are different in very important respects. not just in the ways you described, that there isn t an international consensus, that the russians and chinese have blocked action, that the arab league hasn t requested this kind of support, but they re different in terms of the dynamics on the ground. they re different in terms of the cohesion and the effectiveness of the opposition. you know, in libya you had an opposition that from the earliest days controlled a degree of territory from which it could push out. that s not the case in syria. and so interest is and remains in seeing this government go, seeing assad go, and a democratic transition emerge as soon as possible. but the best way to get there in our judgment is not in this instance through the use of military force or even at this stage arming an opposition whose leadership and cohesion we know very little bit about. i m not talking about us engaging mili