Posted on 01/01/2017 3:39:42 PM PST by Lera
Arkansas Senator slams Obama administration over treatment of Israel at UN, says Palestinian Authority to blame for conflict.
Arkansas Senator Tom Cotton (Rep.) doubled down on his criticism of the Obama administration's handling of the US-Israel relationship, condemning on Sunday the White House's decision to abstain on United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 targeting Israel.
Cotton, Arkansas' junior senator who strongly opposed the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, lambasted the Obama administration's tacit support for the recently passed UNSC resolution which labelled Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria as illegal.
Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Cotton reiterated earlier attacks on the administration, calling the administration's inaction at the UNSC "a fitting punctuation mark on eight years of Barack Obama's presidency."
"First he abstained at the United Nations in the same way he abstained from leadership in the world for eight years. And second, he was much harsher on his allies than his adversaries."
The senator also decried Secretary of State John Kerry's 72-minute speech justifying the abstention, during which he ripped Israel and the Netanyahu government over construction in Judea and Samaria, while only briefly referencing Arab terrorism and anti-Semitic incitement.
"At root, the problem that we face in the Holy Land is not Israelites building new neighborhoods around Jerusalem," said Cotton. "It's the Palestinians refusal to acknowledge Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state in the Holy Land. Until they do that, there won't be a peace agreement between the two peoples."
Following the UNSC vote, Cotton blasted the Obama administration as the "most anti-Israel" in US history.
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And even if the palestinians could eliminate every last Jew from creation, they would immediately turn on Christians, or each other, with exactly the same degree of suicidal blood-lust and insane hatred.
This is built in to their religion. It's not a bug, it's a feature.
It's the whole point, in fact.
He is the ONE GUY (and ONLY ONE GUY) who voted AGAINST “The Iran Deal”.
Oh, my. Jews building homes in Judea and Samaria? Who knew?
God is GOOD! Until they prove there ever was a Palestine which they won’t, Israel will exist!
Yep, even the great Constitutionalist Ted Cruz (who doesn’t know what natural born citizen means) voted to turn the Constitution on its head so Obama could have his Iran “deal”.
If it was not a “deal”, which required 2/3 vote to reject, it would have been a treaty which takes 2/3 to pass.
Everyone who voted for the Corker Bill was complicit in the “deal”.
Are you saying that they all (except Cotton) got a taste?
Pallet loads of unmarked bills can buy a lot of good will in D.C.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Radical Islam is the problem. Period.
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