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Dear Mr. President: You may deny our right to our homeland. You may try to rewrite our history. Just know that we are the most resilient people this world has ever seen. Our lighting of the menorah is living proof of that fact. Proof of our strength and perseverance. Many have tried to destroy us, and they have ALL failed. This time will be no different. Not yourself, not the UN, not the terror that you have given legitimacy to. No one will defeat us. Jews light the menorah to celebrate restoration of Jewish control over Jerusalem and the Temple...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Monday took to Twitter to criticize the United Nations. “The United Nations has such great potential but right now it is just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!” ...

..... Responding to Friday's anti-Israel resolution in the United Nations Security Council, Rabbi Ben-Dahan said, "I would like to bless you, that we will tell the nations of the world - precisely from the eternal capital of Israel - we did not conquer a foreign country, but this is our country and we returned to it so that we would never leave it again. Whether the nations of the world want it or not, the land of Israel belongs to the people of Israel. This is our home."

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Saturday night called on the United States to withhold funding to the United Nations, until such time that the global body reverses the resolution condemning Israeli presence in Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. In a tweet, Cruz said he had spoken with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Saturday night to assure him of the strong support Israel has in Congress in the wake of President Barack Obama choosing to break with protocol and abstain during the vote at the UN Security Council, thus allowing the resolution to be approved. “Spoke w/ Israeli PM @netanyahu tonight...