Netanyahu Orders Payment Cut to UN over UNESCO's 'Demented' Vote

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday directed the Foreign Ministry to deduct another $1 million from the funds Israel annually pays to the UN in response to UNESCO's 'demented' vote to disavow Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.

'There is a price for harassment,' Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting. 'I directed the director-general of the Foreign Ministry to deduct a further million dollars from the money Israel transfers to the UN.'

This money is in addition to $2 million Israel said it would withhold from the UN after the passage in March of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Human Rights Council, and $6m. that Jerusalem slashed in January in the aftermath of the passage of anti-settlement resolution 2334 in the UN Security Council. Following these cuts, Israel will contribute only $2.7m this year to the UN, instead of the $10.7m that was originally earmarked..."