Posted on 12/24/2016 4:17:16 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
Israel has suspended its multimillion dollar contribution to a number of United Nations bodies and is reevaluating its relationship with the organization, after the UN Security Council passed a resolution on Israeli settlement construction.
“I instructed the Foreign Ministry to complete within a month a re-evaluation of all our contacts with the United Nations, including the Israeli funding of UN institutions and the presence of UN representatives in Israel,” Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu said on Saturday while addressing the nation.
“I have already instructed to stop about 30 million shekels ($7.8 million) in funding to five UN institutions, five bodies, that are especially hostile to Israel ... and there is more to come,” he added without offering any further details.
Netanyahu harshly criticized President Barack Obama for his decision on Friday to abstain from vetoing the resolution that declares settlements as having “no legal validity.” The resolution passed 14 to zero, with the United States abstaining.
The resolution demands that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the 'occupied' Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem.”
The resolution “doesn’t bring peace closer. It pushes it further away,” Netanyahu said Saturday, calling the document “crazy.”
President Barack Obama’s administration constituted a “shameful ambush” by allowing the resolution's passage, Netanyahu said in his first public comments since Friday’s vote.
“Half a million ... are being slaughtered in Syria, tens of thousands are butchered in Sudan. The Middle East is up in flames, yet the Obama administration and the UN Security Council choose to set upon the only democracy in the Middle East,” Netanyahu told his television audience.
Netanyahu said that by abstaining the US has violated a pledge made by former president Jimmy Carter who promised Tel Aviv that Washington would not dictate peace terms to Israel at the UN Security Council.
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More like self-defense than revenge.
Russia and its military are full of Muzzies, even w/o the old Soviet socialist republics.
We really need to keep the Muslims out if the US. Unless they are non-religious, reject Sharia law and support the US constiution they have no business living here. The founders all knew that the constitution would only work for a moral people that accepted the Judeo-Christian consensus.
Your label idea is OK except it should reference “government” rather than country.
This is not a country with a government, it is the obverse.
Good!!! Let’s see how they’d like the UN headquarters in some third world country. Would serve those pompous delegates right.
With any luck Trump will follow suit. Then France with Marine Le Pen. Then Holland with Wilders. Then Italy Beppo Grillo. Then no more UN. I can dream, can’t I?
Ditto.
Foreign aid is the key “Trump Card” ..... mexico will “pay” for the wall et cetera.
I agree, Trump should do the same.
we need to defund the un and kick their ass out of nyc.
As an interim measure, Israel should instruct their ambassador to take a leak on Ban Ki-moon’s desk.
And owebama et al.
Good.
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Damn good, and President Trump should do the same on January 21.
Yes. Hit them in the pocketbook where it hurts those
lovers of the Almighty shekel, dollar - whatever.
Trump, Putin, Farage & Bibi. 2017 shaping up Nicely.
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Wait a second. Am I off base asking why Russia didn’t veto that UN resolution?
Guess you didn’t notice Putin was standing with the filthy Muzzies on this one at the UN.
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Well I noticed and it’s very disappointing. Why did this happen? I thought Russia and Israel were simpatico lately.
We really need to keep the Muslims out if the US. Unless they are non-religious, reject Sharia law and support the US constiution they have no business living here. The founders all knew that the constitution would only work for a moral people that accepted the Judeo-Christian consensus.
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Secular Muslims like the secular Jews? Nah, I wouldn’t trust them anywhere near me. They’re almost an untrustworthy as Democrats.
One of my wishes for 2017 is that the UN goes down the same drain as the EU.
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Precisely so. Globalist political organizations are, like Sharia Law, antithetical to the Constitution of the United States of America.
Think of the fallout if the Russians would have taken a leadership role on this issue.
No reason to single out Putin...France or Britain could have vetoed this thing also.
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