Partly Facetious: Vengeance shall be mine
"Palestine has full membership of Unesco."
"Right, but that would cost Unesco around 60 million dollars which is the US contribution."
"60 million dollars is peanuts."
"That is 22 percent of Unesco money."
"OK, but it is still peanuts - if I recall correctly this amount was in a Swiss account and the account holder was a Pakistani family and..."
"Hey, the money belonged to Benazir Bhutto and former first spouse and current President Asif Ali Zardari! Learn to address him with respect."
"Sorry, but my point is if a family in Pakistan, not a rich country, can boast a 60 million dollar account in Switzerland, and we know that its not the sum total of the family's wealth then the 60 million dollars that the US gave to Unesco is peanuts."
"Ah I see where you are going with this, but as I said 60 million dollars is 22 percent of Unesco's budget. And need I remind you that Angelina Jolie contributed more to our flood victims than our first family did."
"My point is if one family in Pakistan can save 60 million dollars from its large agricultural holdings, and our poor landlords are constitutionally not allowed to pay a tax on their income as they bear very high costs, then let's say the Saudi royal family would probably regard 60 million dollars as petty cash..."
"Well, not only the Saudis but also the royal Qatar family, the..."
"Yes, my point is why doesn't the Muslim world announce that they would pay the 60 million dollars that the US won't give to Unesco?"
"You forget US clout."
"No, I don't, but Palestinians won a landslide victory, true there were some abstentions but the bulk of the world polity granted statehood to Palestine."
"Ah but as the US always says vengeance shall be mine."
"Don't be facetious."
"I am not..."
"Don't be a Muslim fundamentalist."
"And for the US there is no in between those two extremes I guess."
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