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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Me, too!
Trump has already selected the squish Nimrata Haley for that post. I would call her a scalawag, but she isn’t really a Southerner or American for that matter.
I think he did that to yank her out of SC governor’s chair for some reason. She is pretty much a talentless party hack.
the UN can condemn Israel all it wants
no matter
The Jewish people live, and will continue living and building and contributing to the world in so many, many ways
and the UnitedNazis can GTH with Obammy together!
God Bless America! (as God blesses Israel)
Obama is a Christian. All of his decisions against Israel is decidedly Christian in nature.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmoScodDCcM
Very disappointing if all that is true.
Yes. I think the goal was to remove her from a somewhat effective post to an ornamental one.
It is way past time for the US government to kick the UN out of the country. Settle it in the Azores. Get it out of here.
I’d like to see funds CUT from the UN budget in retaliation. Then Planned Parenthood, then NPR. Then let’s use the money to BUILD THE WALL and make America safe again and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
That son of a bitch.
I detest this president.
Yet idiot liberal Jews continue to support the dims.
Can you imagine in your darkest nightmares, what this world would be like if Hitlery won and was able to pull her mask off for all to see their demonic soul? They thought they would flip the senate, which would allow appointment confirmations and treaties to sail through unopposed.
I guess if that really was the plan and it really was the lesser of two evils. The U.N. position should be one that effectively represents what America is all about. John Bolton was such a representative. Reagan appointed so many golden people.
More evangelicals supported Obama than they did Trump, and Jews are vastly outnumbered in this country last time I checked.
I’m repeatedly told the US is a ‘Christian nation.’ This two state solution nonsense was developed by declared Christians in Clinton’s state department, continued by an evangelical Republican president, and now a president who attended a church for decades and was elected by Christians.
The Hill is reporting major Mideast peace talk speech
Hahaha! He’s a Christian all right. Just like rev. Wright is a Christian. /s
It is shameful the UN is still allowed to exist in the United States.
“Obama = rat bastage”
And a Fargging ice-hole as well!
EODGUY
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