Posted on 12/22/2016 7:41:10 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The U.N. was expected to vote today on a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, and reports indicate that Obama was ready to allow the resolution to pass until Egypt put off the vote. President-elect Donald Trump put pressure on Egypt not to go forward with the resolution, and it seems to have had an effect. Charles Krauthammer said that the resolution could have done serious damage to Israel, making Trump’s involvement daring and effective:
More than a slap on the wrist, I think it would have done permanent damage to Israel, which is why even Obama himself several years ago vetoed the resolution, because it sets conditions that take away all of Israel’s bargaining chips. In other words, it gives everything over to the Palestinians in advance in return for nothing from the Palestinians, no recognition of a Jewish state, no concessions at all. And I think what happened today was very important. The reason is that had Obama done what it looks like he was going to do, which is to have the U.S. abstain, the resolution then passes. And it will never be reversed. Because in order to be reversed, you’ve got to get the Security Council to vote to reverse it, and the Chinese and Russians would exercise a veto.
So this would have been one last shot at Israel, and particularly at Israel’s prime minister from Obama. An act of kind of — I don’t know if it’s ideological, but a lot of personal revenge. What Trump did was unprecedented. For a president-elect to step in, to publicly oppose it, and essentially to tell Egypt that introduced the resolution, “You better withdraw this or you won’t have a friend in the white House”(continued)
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It is easy to castrate ineffective leaders who are lazy and leave the ship rudderless for weeks at a time.
That’s pretty much what he said last night.
Just imagine: We could have elected Hillary, who would have hidden until January 20th and then come out like a groundhog to continue the same failed policies (or lack thereof) as Obama.
We are blessed by God in this Christmas season. Our enemies have revealed themselves and are in chaos. We have a new President for whom results matter.
It is wonderful to have a real genius in the WH. Trump’s ethics, intelligence, and understanding of global politics are far superior to everyone else who has held that office since Reagan.
I heard from a Jewish friend in Israel that obama is not giving up and the vote will take place tomorrow. The Jews are still worried.
Krauthammer trying to remain relevant.
“Not all Jews care about Israel but you’re right about Krauthammer”
Boy, you’re sure right about that. All the Jews in the ACLU and the Southern Poverty Law Center absolutely hate Israel. The thing that I don’t understand is why the decent Jewish people don’t call this trash out? We’ve had to give up on a relationship with a couple where the wife (who is Jewish and a HS classmate of my wife’s) are adamantly anti-Israel.
The wife says “she’s a Civil Liberties Girl!” But what’s really funny is that they own a high-end apartment house in SF (their second or third home) and they always rant about how “unfair” SF’s rent control laws are to them. Thankfully, they never had any children.
Who cares what Krauthammer thinks. What is he right on this but was so wrong about the election? Clear case of the Gell - Mann Amnesia Effect. Stop listening to these gossips and hysterics, they get paid to write, you don’t get paid to read.
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