UN votes resoundingly to reject Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as capital

The Guardian ^ | 12/21/2017

[DFG]

The United Nations general assembly has delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump, voting by a huge majority to reject his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The vote came after a redoubling of threats by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, who said that Washington would remember which countries “disrespected” America by voting against it.

Despite the warning, 128 members voted on Thursday in favour of the resolution supporting the long-standing international consensus that the status of Jerusalem – which is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians – can only be settled as an agreed final issue in a peace deal.

Although largely symbolic, the vote in emergency session of the world body had been the focus of days of furious diplomacy by both the Trump administration and Israel, including Trump’s threat to cut US funding to countries that did not back the US recognition.

[Panhandle.deporable]

21 countries also were not even present.So the actual vote was 128 against usa, 9 for, and 56 on the sideline. (35 plus 21).

[The Deplorable Miss Lemon]

Removing bases from the UK and Germany would send the most profound message to the rest of the world. They are a different Europe and we certainly are a different US. Friendship is no longer automatic nor eternal.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks rmlew, I never got round to doing that final step.

[jospehm20]

We Have troops in Germany and the UK. Move them to Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. Pull our the troops out of the Republic of Korea too. Tell all of these countries that they are now on their own militarily.