U.S. fails to win enough support at U.N. to condemn Hamas

Al-Reuters ^ | December 6, 2018 6:47 PM | Michelle Nichols

[Olog-hai]

A U.S. attempt to get the United Nations to condemn violence by Palestinian militant group Hamas for the first time failed on Thursday because the draft resolution fell short of votes needed in the General Assembly.

The resolution required two-thirds support and while Assembly resolutions are non-binding, they can carry political weight. The U.S. text received 87 votes in favor, 58 against, 32 abstentions and 16 countries did not vote.

In an earlier procedural move requested by Kuwait, the 193-member body narrowly voted to require two-thirds support and not a simple majority for adoption of the draft resolution.

Outgoing U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley had written to member states on Monday to urge them to vote for the U.S.-drafted text, warning them: “The United States takes the outcome of this vote very seriously.” …

[Olog-hai]

Overdue for the UN to fail to win enough support for further US funding.

[rktman]

WUT! Assclowns failed to support the US? Anybody know where I put my shocke........ Here it is. 🙀

[NorthMountain]

UN out of US!!!
US out of UN!!!

[reasonisfaith]

This is not a problem.

Everything the UN does is opposite of what is normally expected according to real moral standards.

As long as we’re on the opposite side of the UN we’re good.

[himno hero]

Let me ask you this,

How does anyone achieve anything else when the largest voting block in the UN is the OIC???????????
Why should we expect else wise?

Welcome the UN of Ixlam

[Olog-hai]

We should not continue to fund their aberrant behavior.

And besides, we should dismantle the UN, since its charter was patterned after the USSR’s 1936 constitution by Alger Hiss and is by definition a terrorist entity itself.

[elpadre]

Kuwait went against the US after this nation saved them from total destruction and then built them back so that they are now much better than before the Iraq invasion. Does the Koran say anything about gratitude??

[reasonisfaith]

You’re right.

[Olog-hai]

It says plenty about having hardness against unbelievers.

It’s like the snake that says to the woman in the poem, “You knew I was a snake when you took me in”.

[Paladin2]

Kick their collective butts into the East River.

Turn the building into the Trump UNTower and Marina.

Send them to Harare, Zimbabwe.

[Lurkinanloomin]

If the UN can’t condemn terrorist organizations like Hamas, they are worthless.

[rktman]

Too costly to fix all the environment problems with the building from what I hear.

[EagleUSA]

“..If the UN can’t condemn terrorist organizations like Hamas, they are worthless....”

Therefore......they are. The Bar Scene from Star Wars on the River has been that way for a long time. A worthless money-sink.

[SaveFerris]

Or Strasbourg, France. Might as well have the New World Order HQ's all together. (it's a different kind of flying)

[hinckley buzzard]

Well, there are about 100 countries we can strike from the Christmas list.

[beethovenfan]

I want to see a huge sign on top of the (former) UN building in NYC: “TRUMP”!

[MtnClimber]

Clear that most of the world supports evil.

[fieldmarshaldj]

The U.N. is nothing but a Communist-totalitarian hive of international criminals and terrorists. It’s time to declare it a failure and shut it down.

[himno hero]

it’s just “islam”

[Digger]

UN out of US!!! US out of UN!!!

Repeat Reteat Repeat!!!