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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Just saw Ted Cruz tweet where he said there will be no UN funding from Congress
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This pontification from the most hated man in Congress is amusing. But I hope he’s right.
No reason to single out Putin...France or Britain could have vetoed this thing also.
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Of course. Is there that much animosity in these Security Council countries for Israel, or is Muslim intimidation at work here?
And WHY is it so difficult to find out which 14 countries voted to condemn Israel?? I see it was Malaysia, Senegal, New Zealand and Venezuela who took Egypt's place to put it for vote, but who voted? Why don't any of the news outlets reveal who voted?
But we know they're spineless. Putin doesn't seem to be.
Maybe that's because Israel is anti-Assad. Israel wants Assad gone too. That's another reason why we support the headcutters aka Syrian rebels.
Good for Bibi.
No. Your not off base. I just don’t care, and wonder why you do.
Tell me the fallout from a meaningless vote.
Yep. I'm liking it.
Where was the UN when Bambi and Hitlery invaded Egypt and Libya????
UN=NWO.
Get out of the USA
Good point on V. government vs country.
If you'd like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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No. Your not off base. I just don’t care, and wonder why you do.
Tell me the fallout from a meaningless vote.
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Depends on what you mean by “care” and “fallout” and “meaningless vote.”
No. Your not off base. I just don’t care, and wonder why you do.
Tell me the fallout from a meaningless vote.
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Check out Drudge’s headline in Green, 8 a.m. EST.
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