U.S. isolated further after its veto of U.N. call for withdrawal of Trump’s Jerusalem move

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley vetos an Egyptian-drafted resolution regarding recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem, during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestine, at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., December 18, 2017.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley vetos an Egyptian-drafted resolution regarding recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem, during the United Nations Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including Palestine, at U.N. Headquarters in New York City, New York, U.S., December 18, 2017.

The United States was further isolated on Monday over President Donald Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when it blocked a United Nations Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn.

The remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the Egyptian-drafted resolution, which did not specifically mention the United States or Trump but which expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.”

“What we witnessed here in the Security Council is an insult. It won’t be forgotten,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said after the vote, adding that it was the first veto cast by the United States in more than six years.

“The fact that this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in defense of America’s role in the Middle East peace process is not a source of embarrassment for us; it should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council,” Haley said.

The U.N. draft resolution affirmed “that any decisions and actions which purport to have altered the character, status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council.”

Trump abruptly reversed decades of U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab world and concern among Washington’s western allies.

“In the wake of the decision of the United States … the situation has become more tense with an increase in incidents, notably rockets fired from Gaza and clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces,” U.N. Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council ahead of the vote.

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Trump also plans to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The draft U.N. resolution had called upon all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Haley and Trump for the veto in a video clip posted on his Facebook page.

Israel considers Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city’s eastern sector, which Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed in a move never recognized internationally.

Following the U.S. veto, Egypt’s Foreign Ministry said Arab states, which had agreed earlier this month to seek a Security Council resolution, would meet to evaluate the situation to determine what their next steps might be.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said the Palestinians would seek a rare emergency special session of the 193-member U.N. General Assembly on Trump’s decision.

Under a 1950 resolution, an emergency special session can be called for the General Assembly to consider a matter “with a view to making appropriate recommendations to members for collective measures” if the Security Council fails to act.

Only 10 such sessions have been convened, and the last time the General Assembly met in such a session was in 2009 on Israeli actions in occupied Palestinian territories. Any outcome of such a session is non-binding, but carries political weight.

 REUTERS
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55 responses to “U.S. isolated further after its veto of U.N. call for withdrawal of Trump’s Jerusalem move”

  1. ““What we witnessed here in the Security Council is an insult. It won’t be forgotten,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said after the vote”
    I am right and the entire universe is wrong. Enfant gâté, Enfant terrible.

    1. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
      Rainbow Sponge

      No one in the entire universe has the right to tell the U.S. where to place its embassies.

      1. Danny Farah Avatar
        Danny Farah

        We the Taxpayers of America have the right to refuse billions of dollars to Israel. When you want to act as a peace broker you cannot be one sided. The US should stop billions of dollars of aid to Israel unless they stop building settlements. Yes the US can place its embassy anywhere it pleases but the US is not just a government the majority is it’s people not bunch of scared congressmen who are always lobbying for Israel. There are many Jewish Billionaires why should we taxpayers are responsible for a country that could care less about the US period. Unfortunately our government are forced by the jewish lobbyists to make sure they never vote anything against Israel. Listen when John Sununu was Chief of Staff during Bush Administration the jewish congress kept putting pressure on Bush to fire him so John S resigned. under political pressure. But how many congressman or leader resigned in the government based on what John did? none? why because they were supporter of Israel and as long as you support the zionist state nobody can touch you. Now Trump is counting on that in case Mueller investigation could lead to Trump impeachment and I am sure since Trump is all about business the Rich and powerful Israelis business made him a good deal he can’t refuse. After all Trump most hardest followers are racist and his father also was white racist so how could someone like fall for a trap by the Israelis?
        Maybe it’s too complicated to understand what’s going on the same it’s when Hitler whom was a jew himself wanted to kill all the jews. It’s definitely complicated for sure.

        1. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
          Rainbow Sponge

          The only people protesting the embassy move are Hezbollah supporters, Erdogan, Hamas, migrants in European cities, and Hind Abyad.

          Only 6 months ago, the Senate with a vote of 90-0 reaffirmed that ‘Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel’, in line with the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Act. The American people have spoken.

          1. Dumbyad doesn’t go to demonstrations. She has to be back at the mental hospital by 6 p.m. If she’s late, it’s no jell-o! 🙂

          2. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
            Rainbow Sponge

            It should be no wifi for mental patients. People can get up to no good on the deep web, as you can see below:

            https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/9ad4a169b6c7bbd39c3cbc50c2ea55f4f84701cf25b5689aaa780dfb892c8257.png

          3. ‘The “cursed” YouTube video’? Sounds disturbing.

            Is watching the screenshot enough to get cursed??? 🙂

          4. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
            Rainbow Sponge

            I think he’s referring to something else, he goes through different TOR websites in each of his videos. The website in the above screenshot is just of a woman selling some white (brown?) underwear for a low price. 🙂

          5. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
            Rainbow Sponge

            You are the one who’s stalking me by commenting on my post. Just think about that. Btw, don’t tell me what to do. This is not Tehran. I can interact with YK as much as I want.

          6. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Yes i can tell you if you stalk. This is not Tel Aviv.
            You interact as mush as you want with rabid pitiful YaK
            but not about me!

            “Rainbow Sponge – Y K • 14 hours ago
            It should be no wifi for mental patients. People can get up to no good on the deep web, as you can see below:”

          7. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
            Rainbow Sponge

            But you’re okay with YK calling you a mental patient.

          8. I guess it’s something she doesn’t even bother to deny anymore. 🙂

          9. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Yes he’s a donkey like you.

          10. Danny Farah Avatar
            Danny Farah

            stop talking about your mother Y K it’s not very nice.

          11. Danny Farah Avatar
            Danny Farah

            In the decades since Adolf Hitler’s death, the Nazi leader’s ancestry has been a subject of rampant speculation and intense controversy. Some have suggested that his father, Alois, born to an unwed woman named Maria Schickelgruber, was the illegitimate child of Leopold Frankenberger, a young Jewish man whose family employed her as a maid. (She subsequently married Johann Georg Hiedler–later spelled “Hitler”–whose surname her son adopted.) Others have claimed that Alois’ biological father was also the grandfather of Hitler’s mother, Klara Pözl, making Adolf the product of an incestuous marriage.

            To unravel the mystery of the Fuhrer’s roots, the Belgian journalist Jean-Paul Mulders teamed up with Marc Vermeeren, a historian who has written extensively about Hitler and his ancestors. The duo collected saliva samples from 39 of the infamous dictator’s living relatives, including a great-nephew, Alexander Stuart-Houston, who lives in New York, and an Austrian cousin identified only as “Norbert H.” Tests were then conducted to reveal the samples’ principal haplogroups, which are sets of chromosomes that geneticists use to define specific populations.

            Writing in the Flemish-language magazine Knack, Mulders reported that the relatives’ most dominant haplogroup, known as E1b1b, is rare in Western Europeans but common among North Africans, and particularly the Berber tribes of Morocco, Algeria, Libya and Tunisia. It is also one of the major founding lineages of the Jewish population, present in 18 to 20 percent of Ashkenazi Jews and 8.6 to 30 percent of Sephardic Jews. In other words, Hitler’s family tree may have included Jewish and African ancestors.

          12. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Here’s a demonstration in Israel gracious chaos.
            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccTqT4GGRA0

          13. What the hell is “gracious chaos”, you confused mental patient? Is there any language you can actually meaningfully express yourself in?

          14. Hind Abyad Avatar

            What the hell is this video dumbyk
            “Israel: Female sent flying by police skunk-water cannon”
            Dance under skunk putrid water ?

          15. The whole world is against Trump’s Jerusalem move . The US and Israel are the only 2 countries that support the move as was evident in the UNSC meeting yesterday. This move by Trump has isolated the US , since all its allies are against it

          16. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
            Rainbow Sponge

            The whole world can take its opinion and shove it where the sun don’t shine. It’s NONE of anyone’s business where the U.S. decides to put its embassy.

          17. It is not up to Trump to decide anywhere in the world where embassies should be located . He can only decide for the US, period . It is none of his business. By the same token no country in the world can dictate to the US what its capital should be . It is none of their business too

          18. But that what he decide for the US, where the american embassy should be located in Israel.

          19. To all of you Mary Christmas https://youtu.be/oRb1J-_stHE

          20. Merry X-mas!

            And Happy Festivus for the rest of us!

            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbfMmCf5-ds

          21. Hind Abyad Avatar

            South africa has agreed to a unanimous, unconditional & immediate downgrade of the SA Embassy in Tel Aviv to a liaison office.

          22. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Idem.

          23. It will be interesting to know how they get out of this quicksand.

          24. Hind Abyad Avatar

            I said stop talking about me.Shut up!

        2. “Maybe it’s too complicated to understand what’s going on the same it’s when Hitler whom was a jew himself” (sic)

          Seems like the transformation of a mildly logorrheic caterpillar into another full-fledged Dumbyad butterfly is (almost) complete.

          Sadly, Lebanon, including most of its “Christians”, looks just as hopeless as the rest of the Arab world.

          1. Danny Farah Avatar
            Danny Farah

            Sadly we tried to befriend you and all you wanted to take advantage of us. Hitler father was of a jewish ancestry whether you want to admit it or not. Sadly the jews have not learned anything from the holocaust and they are the same and if not in their treatment of the Palestinians. Keep your logerr head in your ass and pretend you have not done wrong.

          2. “We tried to befriend you”

            Sorry, pal, I don’t know you and never asked for your friendship. The fact that you repeat typical Arab idiocies – and double down on them – is mildly disappointing but hardly surprising. After all, you’re part of that culture where the rhetoric of nonsense is an all-pervasive pathology.

        3. As a US taxpayer I have the right to support our position with Israel and with other countries like Japan and So Korea.

          Sununu’s controversy with Zionism was during his governorship and his dismissal was based on using gov’t funds and assets for personal use.

          Hitler was not a Jew and was raised Catholic.

          1. The Sununus are one of the most prominent Palestinian-American families with roots in Jerusalem….
            Remember to mention “Hitler was not a Jew and was raised Catholic.” for Omega…

          2. John H Sununu the 75th Governor of NH and Chief of Staff for President George H. W. Bush is a Cuban born Arab-American His father’s family came from Jerusalem, Palestine and Beirut Lebanon and his mother was from El Salvador . Sununu’s father was born in the US while he was born in Havana , Cuba

          3. Danny Farah Avatar
            Danny Farah

            He was from Lebanon and the Zionist could not stomach someone in high power. so they will relentless in their attack. Had he been Pro Israelis he would have remained as Chief of Staff for sure. Even Bush insisted on him staying but John S. didn’t want to put pressure on George W Bush so he resigned. And Hitler was a jew and he hated his father and wanted to punish his race for it. Why are you surprised several jews in the South were involved with the KKK and even become grand wizards. Go figure!

          4. “He was from Lebanon… ” he wasn’t from Lebanon, he was Cuban born Arab-American His father’s family came from Jerusalem.

            Anymore theories about the Austrian?

          5. Hind Abyad Avatar

            You were born Alzheimer.

          6. Danny Farah Avatar
            Danny Farah

            So why the big fuss then from the jews then?

          7. Ask the Jews, don’t ask me.

          8. Hind Abyad Avatar

            He was an illegitimate son, hardly a Jew if his mother was
            not Jewish but where did he get his DNA?

            “Hitler ‘had Jewish and African roots’, DNA tests show…”
            Adolf Hitler is likely to have had Jewish and African roots”

            http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/world-war-two/7961211/Hitler-had-Jewish-and-African-roots-DNA-tests-show.html

      2. No country in the entire world has the right to tell another country what its capital should be

        1. Hind Abyad Avatar

          You can’t put the US embarrassy to the UK in France and not have the world condemn you put it on the moon.

          1. Who would want to?

  2. Hind Abyad Avatar

    Beirut: ‘Israel violated Lebanon border 11,000 times’
    Lebanese presidency says Israel’s intention to build a wall on border line is worrying’

    http://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/beirut-israel-violated-lebanon-border-11-000-times/1008590

    1. I would be curious to know how many times Lebanese or Hezbollah took a sojourn into Israel.

      1. Danny Farah Avatar
        Danny Farah

        They didn’t start it in the first place. You created Hezbollah because of their constant bombings of Lebanon.

        1. Biggest crock of BS. Hezbollah simply replaced Arafat’s bungling. No Arafat, no IDF.

          1. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Who was Ataturk’s editor of “The Young Turks” that promoted the Armenian genocide in 1915?

          2. I bet it was a Joo. 🙂

            So the degenerate’s newly found love for Erdogan is based on a shared hatred of Atatürk? Well, that kinda figures – in a completely insane way, of course. 🙂

          3. Hind Abyad Avatar

            1915

          4. Hind Abyad Avatar

            Biggest crock of BS. Hezbollah was born during Israel invasion of Lebanon. No Arafat, always IDF.

    2. “Lebanon” does not “have” a border. The “border” is owned by Hezbollah, just as it used to be owned by the PLO.

      P.S. I see from the use of Erdogan’s pet propaganda outfit that Dumbyad’s past hate for the Sultan is all water under the bridge. 🙂

      1. Danny Farah Avatar
        Danny Farah

        Just like Israel is owned by the heretic Jewish Extremists. the non-religious Israelis in any say in the government or affairs of Israel. They have been forced to bow down to the extremists. If Israel listens to the moderate israelis then we would not have problems like we do now. so what’s the difference please tell me.

        1. “If Israel listens to the moderate israelis then we would not have problems like we do now.”

          A childishly stupid claim. Who is “we”? You and your family, (Maronite) Christians, Aoun and his cronies, Nasrallah’s thugs, the Geageas, the Gemayels, the Jumblatts, the Salafists, the assorted Communist and Saadist crazies? Neither the Israeli state nor the Israeli society have any real problems with (or care much about) “you”, personally or collectively. The hostility is entirely one-sided, and is something the majority of Lebanese – of different sects and factions – seem to choose consciously and voluntarily. Interestingly, the same majority doesn’t seem as keen on living with the consequences of their choices.

          “so what’s the difference please tell me.”

          One can refuse to face reality as long as one wants. The issue is, you know the difference very well. You just choose – again! – to ignore it or hide behind ridiculous comparisons. No, Israel ain’t Lebanon and the Israeli “extremists”, whatever they are, ain’t an armed-to-the-teeth mafia unaccountable to anyone but a bunch of Ayatollahs in Tehran. Israel (or any other civilized country) has functioning institutions while whatever ones Lebanon has are either make-believe or a parody.

          The Lebanese (and more specifically Lebanon’s Maronites) have allowed their country and state to be hijacked by barbarian goons with foreign agendas – again. At least the first time they fought, and lost. This time, the self-betrayal was voluntary. It’s not the Israelis who made the Senile Napoleon(tm) sign his pact with the Devil, and the masses voting for his family enterprise are not Israeli either.

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