Posted on 12/23/2016 12:13:28 PM PST by Kaslin
A "shameful" abstention by the U.S. in a United Nations Security Council vote Friday allowed passage of a resolution condemning Israeli settlement expansion in the occupied West Bank.
The resolution was put forward by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal after Egypt withdrew it Thursday under pressure from Israel and U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.
It was adopted with 14 votes in favor, to a round of applause, after U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power abstained. It is the first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in nearly eight years.
Reaction from U.S. Republicans and Jewish leaders around the world was swift and sharp.
"This is absolutely shameful," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "Today's vote is a blow to peace that sets a dangerous precedent for further diplomatic efforts to isolate and demonize Israel."
The Obama White House, under heavy pressure from the Israeli government and its supporters to veto the resolution, kept everyone guessing until the vote whether it would stop shielding Israel from council resolutions and permit it to pass by abstaining.
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Nothing can happen to Obama, which is why he is doing this now. Truly cowardice. If he really thought it was the right thing to do why didn’t he do this in his first year and enforce it by passing sanctions on Israel when they refused to abide?
Obama is a POS.
It is EXACTLY this kind of BS by the barbarian pygmies for which the ADULTS in the UN retained the VETO. An abstention on this type of vote is an abdication of responsibility we should all be embarrassed about.
can Trump UNDO this move?
GOD HELP US , Obama has brought a curse on our land!
Oh boy are you naive.
Huge surprise, a foreign born, USA hating Muslim president allow the (UN == Islam) to decree evil. Islam has the majority of votes in the (UN == Islam).
At about 4:45 into this example is how Israel will deal with these islamic filth ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKZ49n_Vovg&list=RDh4YvkZeLrjs&index=9
I couldn’t decide between arrogant and worthless.
It’s fine, the two-state solution needs to die and the more daylight there is between the wackos at the U.N. and Israeli public opinion, the sooner that will happen. Trump’s pick for Israeli ambassador has indicated that he’s open to annexation rather than two states, and that is the right choice.
I am 55 and for as long as I can remember, the Kiwis have been to the left of Kanada, let alone Australia! They leach off of AUS defence like Kanada does to the US.
Evangelicals did not support Obama more than they did Trump.
No one who understands the term “ISIL” (rather than ISIS), as used by the Fraud and his worshippers and his Republicans, is surprised.
Mike Huckaby on Fox News just called this a big middle finger goodbye by Obama to Israel .
“Obama is a Christian. All of his decisions against Israel is decidedly Christian in nature.”
“My ‘muslim’ faith”, Georgie S?!
Was wondering when someone would step up to defend the Fraud’s “religion”....
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
American dem supporting Jews are horrible people.
I have never heard any of the republicans in the House or the Senate using the term ISIL, other than besides that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, his administration and the rat members in the House and the Senate.
Music to my ears.
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