Graham: Defund UN after Israeli settlement vote

"Zipperfish" said
First off, the US abstained, so really he should take it up with the US ambassador to the UN. Secondly, the US hasn't paid since 2013 anyways. They are in arrears.

.....other American administrations regularly have abstained or supported U.N. resolutions critical of Israeli policy.

Indeed, until this latest resolution adopted Friday, Obama had been the only president not to let a resolution critical of Israeli policy be adopted by in the Security Council.

�Virtually every U.S. administration in the last 30 to 40 years has allowed a resolution critical of Israel, particularly of settlements, to pass through abstention,� Jeremy Pressman, a University of Connecticut professor who studies the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, said in an interview with The Daily Signal.

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said the U.N. has a �disproportionate� volume of resolutions against Israel, which he believes has �foiled the ability of the U.N. to fulfill its role effectively.�

According to research compiled by Seth J. Frantzman, the op-ed editor for The Jerusalem Post, 226 U.N. Security Council resolutions relating to Israel have surfaced since 1948.

Americans for Peace Now, which advocates a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, found that during Lyndon B. Johnson�s presidency, the Security Council adopted at least seven resolutions critical of Israel�with the U.S. allowing the measures to be adopted either by abstaining or voting for them.

During Richard M. Nixon�s presidency, there were at least 15 such resolutions, Americans for Peace Now reported. The number peaked at 21 under President Ronald Reagan, when the United States voted in 1981 to condemn Israel�s air attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor.

In 1987, meanwhile, the Reagan administration abstained and allowed adoption of a resolution that condemned Israel for killing Palestinian students and included Jerusalem as part of the �Palestinian and Arab Territories, occupied by Israel since 1967.�

Under President George W. Bush, the U.S. in 2003 voted for a resolution endorsing the Roadmap for Peace�an attempt to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict�that called for a freeze of Israel�s settlement activity in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and for Palestinian leaders to curb terrorism.

Pressman says the strong reaction to the Obama administration�s abstaining vote in the Security Council likely had to do with its timing�just before the inauguration of Donald Trump, who has vowed a different approach to Israel.

Even before Donald Trump�s inauguration as president, Congress is planning to escalate the clash over the U.N. Security Council�s anti-Israel resolution into a full-on conflict between the United States and the United Nations. If Trump embraces the strategy � and all signals indicate he will � the battle could become the Trump administration�s first confrontation with a major international organization, with consequential but largely unpredictable results.

Immediately after the Obama administration abstained Friday from a vote to condemn Israeli settlements as illegal, which passed the Security Council by a vote of 14 to zero, Republicans and Democrats alike criticized both the United Nations and the U.S. government for allowing what Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) called �a one-sided, biased resolution.� Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), the chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee for the State Department and foreign operations, pledged to lead an effort to withhold the U.S. funding that makes up 22 percent of the U.N.�s annual operating budget.

WaPo: Obama�s abstention at UN was �a dangerous parting shot� at Israel

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Israeli spokesman: We have �ironclad information� the Obama administration pushed the UN resolution Update: Info will be presented to Trump admin.

John Kerry finally gets to deliver that anti-Israel speech he�s been practicing in the mirror all these years

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"Thanos" said
I could care less what Israel does to the Palestinians. Just don't attempt to sell me your usual shit and try to say it's sugar, not when for eight years Israel had the best friend for a POTUS they've ever had in Obama. I don't give a damn about your party-HQ instructions to turn this, and practically everything else you post, inside-out and upside-down.

There are several options under consideration, two senior Senate aides working on the issue told me. Some are considered �micro� options, such as passing a resolution that would bar any funding that might go to implementing the anti-settlement resolution. Other options include withdrawing the United States from U.N. organizations such as UNESCO or passing legislation to protect settlers who are American citizens and might be vulnerable to consequences of the resolution�

Senators are also looking at ways to withhold U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority or perhaps punish the Palestine Liberation Organization representative office in Washington. Republicans in the Senate don�t plan to wait until Trump is actually in office; aides said to expect action as soon as senators return to Washington next week�

Danielle Pletka, who served on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff under Helms, said � taking on the United Nations can be done, but not without costs and the risk of retaliation. The United Nations could stop doing things that the United States sees as important. Allied countries that value U.N. operations will be upset if those programs are affected. Also, the dues don�t go just go away.

"N_Fiddledog" said
I don't know what the alt-right is doing, but what the actual right is doing is they're getting ready to take action against the UN, and it won't be the newly voted in Right wing American administration that goes home.

Here's a quote from that Washington Post article I showed you.



BTW you did know the "Alt-Right" hates Jews, didn't you? They'd be more on the side of the Alt-left on this one.

Officials in Jerusalem are concerned that world powers may also use the conference to ready a plethora of vehemently anti-Israel motions in the U.N. Security Council, and utilize Obama�s last days to push them through.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday that he�s encouraged by the coming conference. He hopes that the conference mandates an end to Israeli housing construction in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Abbas presides over a government in the city of Ramallah that pays the families of terrorists who kill Israeli Jews.

Last week, the Obama administration abstained on a U.N. resolution condemning Israel. The resolution targeted Israeli �settlements� in disputed lands and announced that two of the holiest sites in Judaism � the Western Wall and the Temple Mount � and the entirety of the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, were all �Palestinian� lands.

As Conservative Review�s Daniel Horowitz has explained, the resolution defies international law. Israel has the right to build in the disputed territories, and this right has been recognized by previous U.S. administrations.

The U.S. government, which has veto power over Security Council resolutions, could have voted no and blocked the measure. Instead, Team Obama chose to abstain, reportedly under the direct orders from the president himself, letting the resolution through.

The move has provided tremendous encouragement for Israel�s enemies, including the terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. They celebrated the Obama measure, declaring that it will lead to Israel�s �isolation� and �boycott.�

Israel has responded to the U.N. ruling with decisive ferocity. It has decided to cut funding from United Nations programs and recall ambassadors from countries that sponsored the resolution. Republicans in Congress have suggested that the U.S. should follow suit and slash funding to the U.N. as well. The U.S. contributes approximately $8 billion a year to the international body.

Unilaterally declaring a Palestinian state would cement President Obama as the most anti-Israel president since its founding. Will he betray the American people�s firm support for the Jewish state, and take his administration down the path of demonization and hate?

"Zipperfish" said
I could care less what Israel does to the Palestinians. Just don't attempt to sell me your usual shit and try to say it's sugar, not when for eight years Israel had the best friend for a POTUS they've ever had in Obama. I don't give a damn about your party-HQ instructions to turn this, and practically everything else you post, inside-out and upside-down.