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| Congress Threatens to Defund UN over Anti-Israel Vote | |
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| Berton | Dec 24 2016, 05:03 AM Post #1 |
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Congress Threatens to Defund UN over Anti-Israel Vote Ambassador Samantha Power, who represents the United States at the UN Security Council, sat mum on Friday when the chair called for votes against an anti-Israel resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal. But she raised her hand high when the chair called for abstentions. She, and her boss, President Barack Obama, could have voted no, in keeping with precedent, and in deference to the incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump. Instead, they let the resolution pass. In anticipation of Obama’s suspected — now confirmed — abstention, members of Congress threatened to de-fund the UN. The U.S. accounts for some 22% of the UN’s budget, supporting a large, comfortable bureaucracy and its various programs. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) issued a statement, warning:
Others joined Graham’s call to defund the UN, including Sen. James Lankford (R-OH). The Republican Jewish Coalition issued a statement also calling for defunding the UN:
The passage of the resolution marks the Obama administration’s final stab in the back against Israel, on its way out the door and in defiance of the results of the November election, when voters chose Trump’s more assertive U.S. foreign policy. In the hours before the vote, American Jewish organizations otherwise friendly to the Obama administration, such as the Union for Reform Judaism, belatedly mobilized to urge the Obama administration to veto the resolution. It was all to no avail. In her statement attempting to justify the Obama administration’s failure to exercise its veto, Power cited a statement by President Ronald Reagan in 1982 opposing further Israeli settlements. She argued — incorrectly — that opposition to Israeli settlements had been the policy of every U.S. administration since 1967, ignoring the fact that President George W. Bush had assured Israel it would accept some settlements, as a reward for Israel’s recognition of the Palestinian aspiration to statehood. Power attempted to cover the Obama administration’s backstabbing by noting that Israel is unfairly singled out for criticism by the UN: “Israel continues to be treated differently than other UN member states,” she said. Yet even as Power said those words, she and the Obama administration participated in precisely that kind of singling out — subjecting Israel to criticism that no other states in similar situations had ever faced, in a week when the city of Aleppo fell to the genocidal Syrian regime. She further argued that the U.S. would have blocked any resolution that threatened Israeli security. The implication was that a resolution that is factually and legally false, and which rewards Palestinians for decades of terror, does not harm Israel. Power stated that “we cannot stand in the way of this resolution as we seek to preserve a chance to attain” the goal of a two-state solution. The claim flies in the face of Israeli efforts to renew negotiations — even to freeze settlement construction — in vain. President-elect Trump had managed to keep the resolution at bay the day before by opposing it publicly, and by convincing Egypt to withdraw it from the agenda. But the Obama administration, aided by temporary Security Council members New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela, and Senegal, persisted. The vote is a watershed: Israel faces a new and more hostile diplomatic reality, and the myth of bipartisan support for Israel has been shattered forever. Democrats will now bear an anti-Israel legacy. LINK How to lose the Jewish vote 101. Obama is putting the finishing nails in the Democratic Party coffin. |
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| Berton | Dec 24 2016, 07:48 AM Post #2 |
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The Dems will have to vote for defunding the UN if they hope to keep any of the Jewish vote. A voting block they heavily depend on. |
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| ImaHeadaU | Dec 24 2016, 09:12 AM Post #3 |
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So, Lindsey Graham (R-SC) speaks for Congress now? I don't think so. |
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| Jim Miller | Dec 24 2016, 09:41 AM Post #4 |
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Doesn't matter what you think, coward. |
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| Berton | Dec 24 2016, 10:25 AM Post #5 |
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He is not the only one. No I am not going to document it for you. |
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| Banandangees | Dec 24 2016, 07:44 PM Post #6 |
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Obama to Netanyahu in 2012 (election year), "Trust me, I have your back." "TRUST ME" Obama saying "Trust me!" is about as trusting as his drawing a Red Line. Presidential policy towards Israel that started with Truman, ended with Barack Hussein Obama. Why is that? No one seems to really have a clue. I think that Israel probably knows. He trades one deserter for 5 top ranked radical Islamic terrorists. He makes a "deal" with Iran that befuddles sanity with Iran getting all it wanted and the U.S. giving up all Obama wanted. Why is that? Four men, waiting for hours for help, being killed by radical Islamic terrorists in Benghazi, and Obama goes on a fund raiser the next day while the administration lies and tells the people that it was over a "video." Why is that? Now, Barack (trust me, I have your back) Obama "abstains" on U.N. vote and shafts Israel and he goes golfing with Tiger Woods. Why is that? I mean, DAH, what does it take to recognize that the "Prince of Trust" is wearing no clothes? My God, how much is "firsts," being cool and charisma really worth to the Democrats. Now, Michelle says to Oprah, "all hope is gone, now we know what 'no hope feels like." What a pompous bunch of f****N $hidt.
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| Pat | Dec 25 2016, 12:56 AM Post #7 |
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There will soon be a new sheriff in town and the statists are going nuts. The Wall Street Journal and MSM talking heads didn't win the presidency, Trump did. We won, you lost, get over it. http://www.wsj.com/articles/let-it-be-an-arms-race-trump-says-1482507844 |
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| Stoned | Dec 25 2016, 01:06 AM Post #8 |
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You never do. |
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| Berton | Dec 25 2016, 01:07 AM Post #9 |
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It already has been, in the original OP. Progressives really need to take a course in reading comprehension. |
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| Jim Miller | Dec 25 2016, 01:55 AM Post #10 |
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They wouldn't understand it.
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What a pompous bunch of f****N $hidt.

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