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US abstains in key Israel vote, clearing way for condemnation of settlements
Fox News.com ^ | December 23, 2016

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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To: Kaslin; SaveFerris
"I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse"

Genesis 12:3

I'm OK with Almighty God cursing and bring down His wrath upon Barry Obama Hussein.

I just hope our nation is not cursed further because of this homosexual Muslim cretin.


141 posted on 12/23/2016 7:14:56 PM PST by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: eartick

“The resolution was put forward by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal after Egypt withdrew it...”

Venezuela isn’t even a functioning country. How can they sponsor a condemnation of anyone?


142 posted on 12/23/2016 7:18:09 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast ("Now it's up to the American people to deliver justice")
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To: SkyPilot

He’s “just too darn smart for the rest of us” according to Chris “Thrill Up My Leg” Matthews.


143 posted on 12/23/2016 7:30:53 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Kaslin

“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.”

The Fraud’s Republican BFF’s....

Sen. Ace McCain:

“President Obama’s decision to completely withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011 led to the rise of ISIL. I and others have long warned that the failure of the president’s policy to deny ISIL safe haven would allow the terrorist organization to inspire, plan, direct or conduct attacks on the United States and Europe as they have done in Paris, Brussels, San Bernardino and now Orlando.”

(Note that this was after he’d been instructed to revise his earlier statement that used “ISIS”)

Source:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/la-ol-mccain-obama-20160616-snap-story.html

Sen. Mitch McConnell:

If our aim is to degrade and destroy ISIL, as the president has said, then that’s going to require smart policies and firm determination. At a minimum, we shouldn’t be doing anything to make the situation worse.

Source:
http://www.quotes.net/citizen-quote/216

Sen. Lindsey Graham:

“Here’s what I’ve said, I intend to destroy ISIL. They want three things: they want to purify the Islamic faith and take it back to the 1100s, they want to destroy the state of Israel the attack infidels like up. Al Baghdadi said to the American colonel who turned him over to the Iraqis after he was in an American POW camp in Iraq, “I’ll see you in New York.”

President Obama said he will degrade and destroy ISIL. Sending 50 American Special Forces into Syria in the eyes of ISIL shows that Obama is not all in, it is a sign of weakness to ISIL. They have sized Obama up and they think he’s weak.

And to our allies, sending 50 troops means that we’re not committed to destroying ISIL. And if we’re not committed to destroying ISIL, they will attack us here.

So, this is a failure on all fronts. These 50 American special operators are going to go in into a very bad spot with no chance of winning, and at the end of the day, this will not destroy ISIL. This is an increment change. It has not chance to success.”

Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/transcript/2015/11/01/newly-sworn-in-house-speaker-paul-ryan-talks-his-plans-for-congress-plus-gop/

Rep. Paul Ryan

(Unable to copy the quote from the transcript)

Source: http://www.whatthefolly.com/2015/11/23/transcript-house-speaker-paul-ryans-remarks-on-syrian-refugees/


144 posted on 12/23/2016 7:31:07 PM PST by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Kaslin

Heavenly Father, please do not hold Obama’s actions against us.


145 posted on 12/23/2016 7:55:36 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standairds at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Read Write Repeat

Obama is a MUSLIM born in KENYA:)


146 posted on 12/23/2016 7:58:10 PM PST by bazbo (God would have you vote your conscience, men would have you vote for a "winner".)
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To: Read Write Repeat

No! Obama is not a Christian by any means. He is just a Atheistic, Immoral, Socialist Community Organizer (read Communist Agitator). He was steeped in the mother’s milk of Communism and Socialism from birth.

He attended what some call a church, but was just a building that houses a group that follow Liberation Theology, does not trust the shed blood of Yeshua as a sacrifice for sin, and certainly does not believe God when he says, “I will bless those who bless Israel and curse those who curse Israel.”

His god is Socialism. If Obama believes any type of theology it is in Replacement Theology. Sorry but all those groups out there who believe that the Jews have been deserted forever by G_d haven’t read His Word, where G_d specifically states he will restore Israel and bless them eternally.

Obama is guilty of practicing Taqiyya. He is permitted to lie about his faith, in order to support Islam. How better than to become the President of the United States where he can act to destroy the Constitution and and our Republic, and bring down what he considers to be the enemy of Islam. That’s the reason that many Muslims support him. They see him as a brother and fellow Muslim who is doing the will of their god.

Is he Muslim or is he Socialist. I feel that he is both, and really showing his true colors, as the worst President we have ever had in office.

Note: Jimmy Carter showed his real colors, as a Replacement Theology follower, after leaving office, and becoming a spokesman for terrorist in the Middle East. Don’t doubt that Obama will do him one better.


147 posted on 12/23/2016 8:10:39 PM PST by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, makes it kind of hard, but I am going to express my anger somehow. This is disgusting.


148 posted on 12/23/2016 8:36:19 PM PST by Ronin (Blackface or bolt-ons, it's the same fraud. - Norm Lenhart)
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To: Behind the Blue Wall
The League of Nations established The British Mandate for Palestine. Shortly afterwards, in September 1922, the League of Nations and Great Britain decided that the provisions for setting up a Jewish national home would not apply to the area east of the Jordan River, which constituted three-fourths of the territory included in the Mandate, and which eventually became the Hashemite Kingdom of Trans-Jordan. At that point the Palestinian Mandate was split into two states with the creation of Trans-Jordan.

So two states were created, one officially giving a Saudi Prince Trans-Jordan. What was left was to be a home for a Jewish nation.

The British, instead of announcing the rest of the area to be Jewish let everything slid, because of continual threats by Arabs states, some of which they themselves had help create out of the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, and Saudi Arabia. Strange how they could never live up to the requirements until 1948.

At that point the Arab League attacked and Tran-Jordan occupied what is call The West Bank. They were occupiers of what was intended to be part of the Jewish National Homeland. Trans-Jordan then renamed themselves “Jordan”, because Tran-Jordan meant across the Jordan Rive not both sides.

Since 1922 there has been two states, and from 1948 until 1967, Jordan illegally occupied part of the second state (The West Bank). They now no longer claim it, and support the creation of a third state.

So, not problem with a two state solution, as long as all areas of the Palestinian Mandate not split off to create Tran-Jordan belong to Israel.This would be the historical area of Israel including Judah and Samaria, which have historically been Israeli territories.

Jewish descendants of Israel have lived in Jerusalem and the area surrounding the city for over three thousand years. Jerusalem is, and has for three thousand years been Jerusalem DC (David's Capital). The Muslim World at heart, believes that Israel has no right to exist, because once conquer an area is always considered Muslim from that point on. In their minds Spain, part of France, Greece, Bulgaria, Croatia, parts of Romania belong to Islam (their World of Peace). All other areas of the world are up for grabs.

149 posted on 12/23/2016 8:37:03 PM PST by Yulee (Village of Albion)
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To: Kaslin

Treachery, thy name is Obama


150 posted on 12/23/2016 9:37:52 PM PST by BigEdLB (To Dimwitocrats: We won. You lost. Get used to it.)
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To: Kaslin

O’Muslim’s gonna Muslim...


151 posted on 12/23/2016 10:06:58 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: DonkeyBonker
Looks like The Little Muslim Boy cr@pped on the Oval Office floor on the way out the door.

Said The Little Muslim Boy
To the Mighty Trump:
Watch me doody right here on the floor...
Do you smell what I did?
Do you smell what I did?
Right here on the floor, Mighty Trump?

Sung to the tune of The Little Drummer Boy

152 posted on 12/23/2016 10:13:59 PM PST by kiryandil (Will Hillary's BrownShirt Media thugs demand that The Deplorables all wear six-pointed Orange Stars?)
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To: Kellis91789

Why not both?


153 posted on 12/23/2016 10:47:00 PM PST by redtetrahedron ("Before I formed thee in the bowels of thy mother, I knew thee" - Jer 1:5)
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To: ducttape45

I was thinking Haiti. Put the most corrupt organization in the most corrupt country. Fitting?


154 posted on 12/24/2016 1:12:34 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (God punishes Conservatives by making them argue with fools. Go Trump!)
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To: ealgeone

My folks are friends with a couple from church that voted for Obama and then helped the campaign for Hillary. As they are obviously politically savvy I’m assuming they know what these two stand/stood for and in this I wonder how they can possibly call themselves Christians if they back that. Though I can’t say it surprises me cause the first time I met the woman, and one subsequent time after, she was rude to me for absolutely no reason. Haughty woman. Decided she didn’t like me right after being introduced. Makes me wonder if she got vibes I’d be one to see right through her.


155 posted on 12/24/2016 2:49:29 AM PST by kelly4c
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To: Kaslin

Obama will now forever known as “backstabber” Obama among many other names including Barack “kill the Jews” Obama.


156 posted on 12/24/2016 3:40:37 AM PST by Truth29
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157 posted on 12/24/2016 3:55:02 AM PST by SJackson (The Pilgrims—Doing the jobs Native Americans wouldn’t do !)
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To: Syncro

I don’t like George Soros one bit, but these allegations of him sending fellow Jews to the gas chambers.... let’s see....he’s 86 now, so in 1943 he would have been what, 13?

Something fishy


158 posted on 12/24/2016 8:54:44 AM PST by enumerated
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159 posted on 12/24/2016 8:57:47 AM PST by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: JBW1949

What’s done is done. Trump can’t retroactively veto this. They deliberately timed it for right before O’s exit. Maybe he can veto a vote for sanctions.


160 posted on 12/24/2016 9:06:25 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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