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Gingrich jabs at Russia over UN Israel vote
www.washingtonexaminer.com ^ | 12/24/16

Posted on 12/26/2016 4:13:18 PM PST by KOZ.

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich jabbed Russia for its vote Friday in the United Nations Security Council — a move that could reflect badly on President-elect Trump.

"So Russia having illegally occupied Crimea and eastern Ukraine votes to condemn Israel for 'occupied lands.' We are supposed to be impressed," the Trump adviser tweeted Saturday morning.

In a 14-0 vote on Friday, the U.N. Security Council condemned Israel for settlements in areas of the West Bank and East Jerusalem that Israel occupied during the Six-Day War of 1967. The Security Council is often critiqued for being anti-Israel.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: antisemitism; israel; russia; ukraine
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To: KOZ.

This kind of crap is why Newt couldn’t be trusted as SoS.

I like him (and voted for him in the 2012 primaries) but he has no discipline at all.


21 posted on 12/26/2016 4:33:54 PM PST by WashingtonFire
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To: FreeReign

I’m glad Newt spoke the truth.

No, he spoke a small part of the truth — which is similar to lying. He didn’t name or shame any of the other 13 countries that voted for the resolution. Why not? He’s ok with them voting for it? I guess so. What a dishonest blowhard he is.


22 posted on 12/26/2016 4:35:03 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

Newt is a voice off conservatism

He is not a radical extremist


23 posted on 12/26/2016 4:38:11 PM PST by Thibodeaux (the end of Obama plague is near........ rejoice)
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To: KOZ.

The U.S. had veto power. Lay the blame where it belongs....B.H. Obama, the muzzie in chief.

24 more days friends and our national nightmare begins to end.


24 posted on 12/26/2016 4:38:21 PM PST by Graybeard58 (+++)
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To: WilliamIII
Why single out Russia alone?

Gingrich made it pretty clear why he was singling out Russia. Did you bother to read the article?

25 posted on 12/26/2016 4:38:30 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: P-Marlowe

Gingrich made it pretty clear why he was singling out Russia. Did you bother to read the article?

So the other countries get a pass for voting against Israel? I guess for you and Gingrich, it’s only wrong for Russia to do so.


26 posted on 12/26/2016 4:40:51 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: WilliamIII

He singled them out for being hypocrites.

Geez, take some time to read the article and then try to comprehend it. It’s not that hard.


27 posted on 12/26/2016 4:43:21 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: grania
Gingrich has a real “shoot from the lip” problem.

Concurring bump...and I' glad he's not gonna be part of Trump's cabinet eimther.

28 posted on 12/26/2016 4:44:35 PM PST by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: P-Marlowe

You’re ok with countries voting against Israel, that’s what I’m comprehending from the Gingrich article that you’re endorsing. You only have a problem with one country — Russia — doing so, because there’s some supposed “hypocrisy” involved.


29 posted on 12/26/2016 4:45:31 PM PST by WilliamIII
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To: P-Marlowe
Is Gingrich on the Trump presidential transition team? Has he been chosen for an upcoming appointment?

He's been shooting his mouth off all over the place and had to be smacked down by one of Trump's tweets.

I don't care if he is right on this particular subject (BTW, Russia "seized" Crimea to cut-off a travel route used by jihadists that your buddy Obama unleashed), he needs to keep his mouth shut.

30 posted on 12/26/2016 4:49:07 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!!!)
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To: WilliamIII
Russia has no business Did UK vote for the measure? Did France? What other countries voted for it? Why single out Russia alone? Please name the other countries, if you’re so concerned.

Okay.

Obama's US, Russia, France, UK, China, Angola, Egypt, Japan, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay...all suck.

31 posted on 12/26/2016 4:49:22 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: KOZ.
Is your support of Russia that blind?

You're going to criticize France, the UK, Malaysia, and New Zealand too, right?

32 posted on 12/26/2016 4:51:23 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (STOP THE TAPE!!!)
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To: WilliamIII

...and Newt’s point about Putin and Eastern Ukraine, stands.


33 posted on 12/26/2016 4:51:25 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: KOZ.

Newt is pushing the line of the Al Qaeda supporters in Syria whose Saudi backed fighters lost in Aleppo recently?

As Pat Buchanan pointed out in a column a few months back, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has been praised by Bibi Netanyahu.

Of course Israel isn’t happy with the vote, but Russia was not one of the nations that pushed the anti-Israel resolution in the first place.

They were Malaysia, Senegal, Venezuela and New Zealand.

All conducted by the POTUS Barack Obama.


34 posted on 12/26/2016 4:53:10 PM PST by Nextrush (Freedom is everybody's business: Remember Pastor Niemoller)
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To: WilliamIII

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35 posted on 12/26/2016 4:53:22 PM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping list.)
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To: KOZ.

The Irish would beg to differ.


36 posted on 12/26/2016 4:54:09 PM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: KOZ.

Russia could have stopped the Obama Nazi resolution

indeed, I rather thought maybe Russia might have done so

but anyway, it is done and it will not matter much
as Israel now knows there is no reason or purpose or advantage in trying to appease or make nice-nice to Obama and the Snake Department Nazis

Bibi is free now to build the housing he should NOT have delayed (trying to make friends with ObamaNazi..that was I think a major mistake which has weakened Israel and deprived hundreds of thousands of her people (including many young folks) of needed housing

this will now be corrected post-haste, and ObamaNazi will be removed from office in just a couple more weeks YIPPEE! GOD HAS BLESSED AMERICA by enabling USA to survive ObamaNazi and his Hate-America Reich!


37 posted on 12/26/2016 4:55:07 PM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: grania

Wrong. Newt’s advice was to let it go. That is what Trump did.


38 posted on 12/26/2016 4:58:18 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: Lurker

Crimea was Russian since 1783. It was given by Krushchev to the Soviet Ukraine which no longer exists. >90% of Crimeans want to be part of Russia. More Californians want to be part of Mexico.


39 posted on 12/26/2016 4:58:58 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist

You are wrong an you are just digging yourself a deeper hole. Newt is correct on the issue.


40 posted on 12/26/2016 5:00:27 PM PST by Parley Baer
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