Posted on 01/18/2017 3:53:36 PM PST by Sean_Anthony
The Security Council looks decidedly stupid and increasingly irrelevant
Twelve of the fifteen members of the United Nations Security Council have apparently had a major rethink on the terms of Resolution 2334 which they approved 14-0 on 23 December 2016 with only America abstaining.
They were among those who issued the Joint Declaration following the Paris Conference held on 15 January—attended by delegations from 70 countries, the United Nations, the European Commission, the European Union, the Arab League and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
The Trump Train has done its circuit of America and when Trump is sworn in Friday it is going around the world. Whatever non-Americans might think of Trump he will have the power and prestige of America behind him as President and he knows how to use it a lot better than Fairy Barry ever did.
Special call-out to France and Germany: Are you going to be on the Tump Train or under it?
Any back-pedaling is great news!
However, currently international _law_ criminalized Israelis living outside of the 1967 borders.
The 70 nation meeting cannot undo what the UN General Assembly voted and the Security Counsel allowed.
Just in two days there have been ON AGAIN, OFF AGAIN articles about this. Does anyone know for sure what’s happening?
Someone must have taken their teleprompter because this sounds like it came from the Tower Of Babel. A rock and a hard place seems to have been replaced with, being between political correctness and Trump pressure.
“This leaves no agreed negotiating framework under which to conduct any resumed negotiations.”
A framework is meaningless if one of the sides does not want an agreement. If both sides saw it in their interest to come to an agreement, the agreement would have happened years ago.
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