America launches the economic side of the Middle East peace plan amid skepticism

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Erdogan: Jerusalem is a red line and Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the property of Muslims

13/12/2017 12:04 | Number of readings: 265

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said during an emergency summit of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) to discuss the Trump decision on Jerusalem on Wednesday that "maps since 1947 reveal that Israel is a state of occupation and terrorism"He said.

"Trump's decision will not change anything because Jerusalem is under Israeli occupation," Erdogan said at the opening of the summit. "America has the power but it is weak because the right is not in its line."He said.

He considered that "Trump's decision to rule in the face of history and morals is a punishment for the Palestinians, stressing that" we can not talk about peace in the region and the world unless the Palestinian issue is resolved"He said.

The Turkish president said that "Trump rewarded Israel despite its crimes and there are 196 countries in the world reject this decision"He said.\

"Jerusalem is a red line and the Haram al-Sharif in the Al-Aqsa Mosque will remain the property of Muslims, Erdogan.

Turkey has appealed to the world to recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestinian state at the opening of an Islamic summit in Istanbul on Wednesday, an emergency summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, which includes more than 50 countries at the invitation of Turkey to discuss the US president's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of "Israel" Common to the decision.

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16 hours ago, Botzwana said:

Synopsis.  Talking about the Bible is not harrassing.  Harrassing is you and LGD going back to 2012 to give me negatives.  I do not deny any truth.  But we have debated this in the off topic forums ad nauseum.  It is kinda like Jedi and Sith in Revenge of the Sith.  From your point of view I am wrong and deny truth.   From MY point of view it is you that is doing exactly that.

 

As I mentioned before, You may want to consider Your self styled sensitivities and their implications to justify Your comments since those extrapolations are entirely unjustified and insupportable externally.

 

I'll stand by my comments that You harass, heckle, and argue. When are You, Botzwana, going to quit Your self gratifying escapades?

 

I didn't go back to 2012 to give You rubies. Why would You, Botzwana, falsely accuse me of THAT? Why do You continue Your harassing, heckling, and arguing? Are You trying to claim You are being persecuted when You harass, heckle, and argue to begin with? The examples of Your, Botzwana, posts above are a clear indication of Your harassing, heckling, and arguing all the while denying actual fact. I don't claim persecution because of what I believe and stand for from You or anyone.

 

So, from Your point of view using Star Wars characters and interactions I can say I don't agree with You, Botzwana, at all. These stereotypes are all made up in Your head to play out some fantasy You have. I do not share Your misguided beliefs, scenarios, or fantasies. These are all Your own, Botzwana. You will have to find others to blame for Your rubies if You care that much about what votes You receive.

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I would encourage everyone to assess and evaluate on the merits of the content and for that reason only.

 

Sadly and reluctantly, I'll leave You, Botzwana, to Your own devices.

 

I would like at least to Thank You, Botzwana, for stating Your beliefs and opinions.

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Inside America in response to the Trump decision on Jerusalem

 

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On Thursday, Dahedash published messages using the "telegraph" in which he threatened attacks in the United States in response to Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, without giving details of the attacks .

In his broadcast messages, he urged the Telegraph program, "Wait for us" and "The Islamic State of Manhattan," today (December 14, 2017). He said he would carry out operations and display pictures of Times Square in New York, Seemingly.

"We will carry out more operations in your territory until the last hour, and we will burn you with the war cry that you have started in Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria and Afghanistan, just wait for us, and we are also waiting."

"Your recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel will make us recognize explosives as the capital of your country," he said.

Last week, US President Donald Trump acknowledged Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in defiance of warnings from around the world that the move would increase unrest in the Middle East. 
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http://www.nrttv.com/AR/Detail.aspx?Jimare=66279

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Jubouri from Morocco: Jerusalem is the capital of the Arabs and we rejected Trump's decision since its first humiliation

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Jubouri from Morocco: Jerusalem is the capital of the Arabs and we rejected Trump's decision since its first humiliation

 

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Parliament speaker Salim al-Jubouri confirmed on Thursday that Baghdad is not only the capital of Palestine but also the capital of Arabs and Muslims, adding that the Iraqi government and people reject US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

"The convening of an extraordinary summit to discuss the American recognition of the city of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the intention of the American administration to transfer its embassy to Al-Quds Al-Sharif comes within the framework of the rejection of our nation," Jubouri said at a special summit of Arab parliamentary heads of state held in Rabat. Arab and Islamic decision, which lacked elements of the substantive, historical and humanitarian. "

He added that "Jerusalem is not the capital of Arab Palestine according to the data of history, heritage, existence and culture, but it is the capital of Arabs and Muslims. Our Arab and Islamic nation finds itself facing a challenge of a new kind that threatens its existence, culture and sanctities.

"This decision unequivocally indicates that America has given up its role as a sponsor of the peace process and has fully sided with the Israeli will and the Palestinian brothers, together with the Arabs and all Muslims, to announce a halt to negotiations with the Israelis and will only return to three basic rules Is not to discuss any issue related to the disruption of the status of the city of Jerusalem as the eternal capital of Palestine and accelerate the issue of the return of Palestinian refugees to their homes and reject theories of the alternative homeland.

He pointed out that "the care of the path of the negotiations should be transformed from unilateralism into active, effective and multi-lateral international sponsorship," pointing out that "Iraq has rejected the decision of the people, parliament and government since its first humiliation."

 

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Pentagon: Our forces in Iraq have received threats from an Iranian-backed armed group

Said their forces were capable of defending themselves and their allies ...

 

 

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US Defense Department spokesman Eric Bahon said US forces had received threats from an Iranian-backed armed group.

"Our troops in Iraq have received threats from an armed group supported by Iran," Bahon told reporters, stressing that "Washington is capable of defending itself."

Yes, we have seen threats from an Iranian-backed armed group, but the United States is more than capable of defending itself and its allies, "the Pentagon spokesman said.

Al-Nabaa, a faction of the Iranian-backed Popular Popular Army militia, has threatened in recent days to target US troops based in Iraq. The leader of the group said President Trump's decision on Jerusalem was a legitimate justification for targeting US forces in Iraq.

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Erdogan: Turkey will initiate initiatives at the United Nations to drop the Trump decision on Jerusalem

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Erdogan: Turkey will initiate initiatives at the United Nations to drop the Trump decision on Jerusalem

 

BAGHDAD / Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that his country would start initiatives to undermine the United States President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

"Turkey will first seek to overturn the move in the Security Council, and if it fails, it will try this in the UN General Assembly," he told crowds gathered in Konya, Anatolia province, by telephone conference.

 

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[bostonangler]

I see this as a simple distraction from the fact the world is moving away from the dollar and our politicians don't want us to realize how close we are to total chaos from the coming economic collapse... No petro-dollar equals no way for America to keep it's head above the flood of debt. China is setting up a gold backed exchange for oil and if they succeed America will tumble very quickly. So be it democrat or republican, they are always trying to distract from their total failure.

 

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DECEMBER 16, 2017

If the war on Iran takes place, the second phase of targeting the balance of the region will be after Iraq and the third in Turkey. The American regional balance policy excludes our region in favor of Israel. Do we see early understanding and position of Turkey?

 

Fouad Al Batayneh

In the history of history, men are still the ones who lead countries and make or influence events. The democratic process is still incapable of handing over peoples or their representatives of power to reality, which has largely remained in the hands of one man or shared with him. A captain, a balance, or a passion.

Tramb brought the democratic system and did not abide by its decisions and foreign policies by a course of predecessors. The constitution could not challenge him. Saudi Arabia was subjected to American power and linked to its existence as a regime under the condition of coordination and alliance with Israel. This is what we are aware of the behavior of the leaders of the Israeli and Saudi entities and linking it to American behavior as a echo and a sign of the wishes and agreement of the two entities. Both leaders have their own interests and priorities.

 

Saudi Arabia wants to preserve its regime from falling or changing the leadership of the Gulf and subjecting it to its decision and subjecting Yemen as a priority on the island to its danger in the event of activating its economic, demographic and geographical potentials and becoming a strong political system free of national or national origin. Meaning that they are abandoning Palestine and Arabism in form and content, and abandoning Palestine to the Israeli decision with substance rather than form.

 

The crisis came with Qatar and the coup against the ruling family's participation in the ruling and ending its political and economic influence in Saudi Arabia, and recently came its publicly shaky position on the decision of Trump to visit the delegation of Bahrain to Lasrail solidarity with the decision of Trump, Of the Islamic Summit.

 

As for Israel, its priorities begin to pave the way for the Arab countries, the region and the Muslims to swallow Palestine and then impose it on the region to reach the universality of the Zionist goals. Since the road to the Arabs has become paved without a single thorn, especially after it dropped its obligations to the agreement Wadi Araba and the Hashemite leadership, has become a direct priority to Iran and its extensions in the Arab region as a strong and hostile to Israel and its rival.

 

As long as the American "Sistem" exists and as long as Zionism and the oil and arms bosoms are the decision-makers in America, the US president is the decision-maker on all sides of the triangle.

 

I say here that Trump, who was capable of defeating his European, international and Arab allies, international treaties and agreements, America's stable policy on the Palestinian issue at the American internal level, and the Security Council and its resolutions, with a formal and popular American smoothness, was motivated by all of this personally and based on his wishes And personal accounts associated exclusively with Netanyahu as a friend and representative of Zionism away from the attention to the warnings of America as a nation and a people and a great power, and what distinguishes him from another Zionist may convert to the Jewish faith without declaring it.

 

Therefore, we can say that those who have succumbed to the demand of Netanyahu in Jerusalem at the expense of the credibility, prestige and interests of a nation the size of America do not hesitate to wage war on Iran and its expansion, although by all accounts it is not in the interest of America. When we see this war looming over Iran, we have to bear in mind that it does not take into account the negative repercussions on the world and on America in the balance of profit and loss, but on Netanyahu's balance. We do not necessarily have to judge that he is joking, biting and threatening, not just the media coverage of the Jerusalem event, and we must give a dimension to Putin's recent decisions in Yemen and Syria on the supposed background of his supposed knowledge of the future.

 Trump calls for forming an alliance against Iran for an international cover for aggression and will not have more than Gulf states, and perhaps other Arab countries and a few weak countries in the distant past, and Israel will join him when he is attacked. If the war took place, and it was a madness and an Israeli-Saudi interest, it would be an American with distinction, financed by Saudi Arabia and collected from its treasury and its stockpiles and from its campaign of what it called corruption.

 

The question is, will the repercussions and expected serious consequences of this possible war, which will surpass America and the world's well-being, push the European countries to form a North-Western political alliance, a strategic diplomat to prevent it? . We expect that. The repercussions of this war on America and Israel, if they are signed, are their concern and problem, and they are the ones who count it, although they will rely on the use of the latest protection technology for themselves, but their repercussions will be serious for the Arab region and the Gulf, which will be affected by political and geographic and financial change and then will be under American protection. It is very, very dangerous to the global economy as a whole, because this war will be far from the rules of engagement, from burning oil and stopping production and export.

 

This war will be catastrophic for the Arabs and their Palestinian cause, because it will represent the second stage of targeting the military and political balance in the region by targeting Iran after the end of the phase of the elimination of Iraq, which greatly upset the balance and hastened to eliminate the Arabs. Turkey must know that the war against Iran is the gateway to war. America's traditional policy of maintaining regional balances is an exception in the Middle East for Israel, and its time has come. And the policy of alliances ended with Warsaw and the Atlantic, and replaced by the policy of alliances of the stage, do we see understanding and position Turkey early and responsible?

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The House of Representatives discusses the repercussions of Trump's decision in an extraordinary session

16/12/2017 03:49 | Number of readings:

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The deputy of the coalition of state law, Fardous Al-Awadi, on Saturday, a close request filed by 50 deputies to the Presidency of the House of Representatives to hold an extraordinary session on the city of Jerusalem.

Al-Awadi said in a press statement followed by "Trend Press" that "50 deputies signed a request for an extraordinary session to discuss the issue of Jerusalem," indicating that "the request was completed and will be submitted to the presidency of the Council to determine the date of the extraordinary meeting."

"It is necessary to make decisions on the issue of Jerusalem and the implications of the Trump decision to move the Israeli embassy to Jerusalem."

The Office of the Speaker of the House of Representatives Salim al-Jubouri announced on Thursday, the participation of the latter at the extraordinary summit of Arab parliamentarians, which will be held today in Rabat to discuss the recent developments associated with Jerusalem.

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1 hour ago, yota691 said:

because it will represent the second stage of targeting the military and political balance in the region by targeting Iran

 

YEP! Iran is likely well “painted” by Ole Mad Dog Mattis!

 

IRGC, Soleimani, Iranian Militias, and all the Iranian moles in Iraq are about to be, well, exterminated!

 

Gotta get the Iraqi business environment prepped for all the “foreign investors”!!!

 

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America is vetoing the Arab project on Jerusalem

Date of release: 2017/12/18 21:37 • 224 times read

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used the United States, on Monday, the right of veto [veto] against the Arab draft resolution , which put on the Security Council on Jerusalem.

US envoy to the United Nations Nicky Healy said the draft resolution "hinders peace," adding that Washington "is committed to a lasting peace based on a two-state solution." 
For his part, British Ambassador to the United Nations, Matthew Raikroft, said that East Jerusalem will remain a part of the Palestinian territories, pointing out that London will not transfer the British embassy to Jerusalem. 
The British delegate stressed that "the status of Jerusalem must be determined by direct negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians." 
France's representative to the United Nations, François de Lutter, expressed his country's regret over the veto, pointing out that President Trump's decisions will not change the common ground on which peace efforts should be based.
The United Nations Special Coordinator for the peace process said during the meeting that "unilateral steps could threaten the two-state solution," calling on Israel to stop its illegal settlement activities. 
"Israeli forces have killed 22 Palestinians in recent months," Mladenov said, adding that "the increase in violence since Trump announced his decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel." 
The Special Coordinator stressed that "peace is still based on a two-state solution" and that "the status of Jerusalem must be among the issues of a final solution." 
"All unilateral steps will escalate the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the Russian envoy said. 
All 14 members of the Council agreed to the Egyptian draft resolution, considering the Trump decision on Jerusalem to be illegal, contrary to international law and international legitimacy and impeding peace and stability in the region.
The Palestinian presidency denounced today the American veto against the Egyptian draft resolution on Jerusalem, stressing that this is a mockery of the international community.

 

http://www.alliraqnews.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=69404

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U.S. Vetoes U.N. Security Council Resolution Voiding Trump's Jerusalem Move

 

December 18, 20172:38 PM ET

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U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley speaks during a Security Council meeting on Monday. The Council voted on a resolution that expressed "deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem," without mentioning the U.S. by name.

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The U.S. blocked a United Nations Security Council vote Monday on a resolution that called on all states to refrain from building diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.

U.S. Delegate to the U.N. Nikki Haley voted against the resolution, using the United States' veto power as a permanent member for the first time in more than six years. The Council's other 14 members, including France and Britain, all voted in favor.

Egypt drafted the text, which does not mention the United States or President Trump by name, but does refer to "deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem" and calls for "reversal of the negative trends on the ground that are imperiling the two-State solution."

The recent decisions mentioned include President Trump's move to reverse decades of U.S. policy on Dec. 6 when he declared Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and announced plans to move the American embassy there from Tel Aviv. U.S. policy had held that the status of Jerusalem is an issue to be decided in peace talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders.

 

 

NPR's Michele Kelemen reported for newscast that Egypt sponsored the resolution in order to "demonstrate that much of the world opposes Trump's action, including U.S. allies on the security council, Britain and France, who see Jerusalem as a shared capital of Israel and a future Palestinian state."

The news set off demonstrations by Palestinians, followed by militants launching rockets in Gaza and Israeli airstrikes.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has said the U.S. should no longer be involved in brokering a Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.

After the vote, Haley lashed out at the other members of the Council, calling the proceedings "an insult" that "won't be forgotten."

"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," said Haley. "It should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council."

Before the vote, Haley was sharply critical of the Obama Administration's abstention from voting on last year's Resolution 2334, which she called a "significant setback."

That resolution, which had 14 votes in favor, "reaffirmed ... that Israel's establishment of settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967, including East Jerusalem, had no legal validity, constituting a flagrant violation under international law and a major obstacle to the vision of two States living side-by-side in peace and security, within internationally recognized borders."

The resolution also said that the Council would not recognize any changes to the June 4, 1967 lines, "including with regard to Jerusalem, other than those agreed by the two sides through negotiations."

"Given the chance to vote again," said Haley to the Council, "I can say with complete confidence, we would vote no and exercise our veto power."

Palestinian leadership will hold its first meeting today to discuss responses to Trump's Jerusalem declaration.

NPR's Daniel Estrin contributed to this report.

 

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/18/571653304/u-s-vetoes-u-n-security-council-resolution-voiding-trumps-jerusalem-move

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International rejection of the US veto against the Jerusalem decision

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A number of countries on Monday rejected a veto by the United States against a draft resolution put forward by Egypt to a UN Security Council vote rejecting US President Donald Trump's declaration of recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

The Turkish foreign ministry said Ankara regretted America's veto on a resolution calling for the withdrawal of Washington's declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. "The United States' stand alone in this vote is a clear sign of its illegality on Jerusalem," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "Lost its objectivity". 
Sources in the office of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the latter and British Prime Minister Teresa Mae discussed US veto power against the Security Council resolution. Erdogan and Mae agreed that any new tension that could jeopardize the peace process in the region should be avoided.

Egypt regretted that its draft resolution on Jerusalem, which had been supported by 14 Council member States, had not been adopted. The statement issued by the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said that the draft resolution was "in response to the conscience of the international community, which clearly expressed the rejection of the United States recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."

France and Britain, France and Britain 
stressed that Jerusalem is the key to a two-state solution. "Without an agreement on Jerusalem, there will be no peace agreement," French envoy to the Security Council Francois Dulatter said, recalling the "international consensus on a two-state solution."

"The United States will continue to play a very important role in the search for peace in the Middle East," said British envoy Matthew Rycroft.

For its part, Russia announced its support for the principle of the establishment of the State of Palestine with East Jerusalem as its capital. Russian Ambassador to the Security Council Vladimir Savronkov confirmed his country's readiness to play the role of "honest broker" in settling the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Safronkov conveyed Russia's warnings, describing it as unilateral steps that would exacerbate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Lebanon and Qatar Lebanon 
expressed its regret at the obstruction of Washington's adoption of a draft Security Council on Jerusalem, praising at the same time the vote of 14 member states of the Council in his favor. The Lebanese Foreign Ministry said that Beirut hopes to "emerge new mediators active and impartial, they can lead a just and comprehensive peace, The region is falling in wars. "

Qatar's permanent representative to the United Nations, Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al-Thani, reiterated Qatar's firm position on the Palestinian issue and said that Qatar rejects any measures that would change the status of Al-Quds Al-Sharif, as stipulated in relevant Security Council and UN resolutions.

The Secretary-General of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars Ali al-Qarra Daghi said in his Twitter account that America's veto of the UN Security Council's Jerusalem draft resolution is "terrorism, defamation and defiance of countries around the world."

Palestinian 
President Mahmoud Abbas said it was "crazy" to accept an American role as a mediator in the peace process. "The use of the American veto is condemned and unacceptable and threatens the stability of the international community because it is being reckless," Palestinian presidential spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeina told AFP.

"This veto will lead to further isolation of the United States and a provocation to the international community," Abu Rudeineh said, referring to the continuation of Palestinian movements in the United Nations and in all international institutions to "defend the rights of the Palestinian people."

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki said the Palestinians would call for an emergency meeting of the UN General Assembly after the US veto on the Security Council. "The Palestinians will move within 48 hours," Maliki told reporters in Ramallah, adding that the international community would consider the US president's decision null and void.

The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) considered the use of the veto by the United States as saying that "betting on America as an honest broker in finding a solution to the Palestinian issue was a losing and wasteful undertaking." Hamas accused the US administration of "reckless decisions. Region".

Israeli 
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked US envoy to the UN Nicky Healy for using the veto in the UN Security Council against a resolution condemning the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

"Thanks to Ambassador Healy, the truth has won over the lies, and thank President Trump" before repeating "Thank you Nicky Healy," Netanyahu said in a tweet on Twitter.

Source: Al Jazeera + Agencies

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Safronkov conveyed Russia's warnings, describing it as unilateral steps that would exacerbate the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Lebanon and Qatar Lebanon

 

Maybe the quagmire is thickening here. Palestine, Lebanon, and Qatar are States that are likely under the whims of Iran. Egypt and Turkey as well have had strong reactions to the recognition the US has given Jerusalem as being the capital of Israel. So, bolstering Israel's position weakens Iran.

 

Suspiciously absent in this article is Saudi Arabia's response.

 

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TO HELL WITH THE UN ! 

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Arab League seeks to pass UN resolution 'binding' on Jerusalem

Aboul Gheit said that the Arab countries will go to the General Assembly of the United Nations to pass the resolution under the Union for Peace to become binding on all its institutions.

Middle East Online

Open Movements CAIRO - Arab states will ask the United Nations General Assembly to pass a binding resolution condemning Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Tuesday. Aboul Gheit said in statements to reporters that "the Arab countries will go to the General Assembly of the United Nations to pass the resolution under the Union for Peace to become a binding decision for all United Nations organizations." "There are many ways that are being studied at the Palestinian and Arab levels in order to deal with any negative consequences of the American decision" to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The Secretary-General of the Arab League expressed "deep indignation" at the United States veto power to abort an international resolution condemning the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. "The American approach is causing more isolation for the United States," he said, adding that "the use of a 14-vote veto reveals a stark US challenge to a clear and perhaps rare international consensus." The United States on Monday vetoed a Security Council resolution condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, and Washington appeared completely isolated internationally after the rest of the 14 members voted in favor of the draft resolution. Egypt has submitted the draft resolution on Jerusalem, which warns of the "serious repercussions" of the US decision to recognize the Holy City as the capital of Israel, and calls for its abolition, ten days after being announced by US President Donald Trump. After the American veto, the Palestinians announced their intention to resort to the General Assembly, where no state has the right to veto. On December 6, US President Donald Trump announced the recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and the start of the transfer of the US Embassy from Tel Aviv to the Holy City. Trump's decision to implement one of his campaign promises in 2016 ends seven decades of US ambiguity about the status of the holy city claimed by Israel and the Palestinians. Trump said the resolution marked the beginning of a "new approach" to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The presidents who preceded Trump from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush made the same promise, but backed down when they took office. Israel occupied East Jerusalem in 1967 and declared it its eternal and unified capital in 1980, a move not recognized by the international community and included the United States. Palestinians hold East Jerusalem as the capital of their hoped-for state on the basis of the decisions of the international community.   http://www.middle-east-online.com/?id=263286

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FILE - Secretary-General of Arab League (AL) Ahmed Abul Gheit

 

Arab League denounces US veto against Jerusalem draft resolution

By: Egypt Today staff

 

Tue, Dec. 19, 2017

CAIRO - 19 December 2017: Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Tuesday denounced a US veto in the United Nations Security Council aborting a draft resolution that was sponsored by Egypt for protecting the status of the holy city of Al Quds. 

Abul Gheit, in press statements, expressed discontent over the US veto against the draft. 

He said that the US stance causes more of its isolation and that using the veto right against 14 other member states uncovers the US's flagrant defiance of a clear international consensus over the issue. 

The Arab countries will go to the United Nations General Assembly for passing a draft resolution under the article "United for Peace" so that it could be mandatory to all UN agencies, he added. 

Egypt sponsored the draft in the UNSC after US President Donald Trump issued a decision on December 7 announcing Washington's recognition of Al Quds as the capital of Israel.

 

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/37490/Arab-League-denounces-US-veto-against-Jerusalem-draft-resolution

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What I learned from the video is Nikki Haley seems to like South Carolina:

 

 

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UN votes resoundingly to reject Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as capital

The United Nations body’s debate and vote highlighted for a second time in a week the international isolation of the United States over the Jerusalem issue

 

 

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The United Nations general assembly has delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump, voting by a huge majority to reject his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The vote came after a redoubling of threats by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, who said that Washington would remember which countries “disrespected” America by voting against it.

Despite the warning, 128 members voted on Thursday in favour of the resolution supporting the longstanding international consensus that the status of Jerusalem – which is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians – can only be settled as an agreed final issue in a peace deal. Countries which voted for the resolution included major recipients of US aid such as Egypt, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Although largely symbolic, the vote in emergency session of the world body had been the focus of days of furious diplomacy by both the Trump administration and Israel, including Trump’s threat to cut US funding to countries that did not back the US recognition.

But only nine states – including the United States and Israel –voted against the resolution. The other countries which supported Washington were Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala and Honduras.

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Twenty-two of the 28 EU countries voted for the resolution, including the UK and France. Germany – which in the past has abstained on measures relating to Israel – also voted in favour.

Thirty-five countries abstained, including five EU states, and other US allies including Australia, Canada, Colombia and Mexico. Ambassadors from several abstaining countries, including Mexico, used their time on the podium to criticise Trump’s unilateral move.

Another 21 delegations were absent from the vote, suggesting the Trump’s warning over funding cuts and Israel’s lobbying may have had some effect.

While support for the resolution was somewhat less than Palestinian officials had hoped, the meagre tally of just nine votes in support of the US and Israeli position was a serious diplomatic blow for Trump.

Immediately after the vote the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, described the result as a “victory for Palestine”. The Palestinians’ UN envoy, Riyad Mansour, described the result as a “massive setback” for the US.

“They made it about them,” Mansour told AFP. “They did not make it about Jerusalem, so when you make it about them and to only be able to get nine votes to say ‘no’ to it, I think it was a complete failure for their campaign.”

Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, rejected the UN vote out of hand.

“Israel thanks President Trump for his unequivocal position in favour of Jerusalem and thanks the countries that voted together with Israel, together with the truth,” said a statement from Netanyahu’s office. 

Trump threatens to cut aid to countries over UN Jerusalem vote

 

 

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Speaking to the assembly before the vote, Haley – who earlier in the week told members that the US “would be taking names” – returned to the offensive.

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“I must also say today: when we make generous contributions to the UN, we also have expectation that we will be respected,” she said. “What’s more, we are being asked to pay for the dubious privileges of being disrespected.”

Haley added: “If our investment fails, we have an obligation to spend our investment in other ways … The United States will remember this day.” 

In his own speech Israel’s UN ambassador, Danny Danon, said UN members who backed the resolution were being manipulated. “You are like puppets pulled by your Palestinian masters,” he told the session.

While Thursday’s resolution was in support of existing UN resolutions on Jerusalem and the peace process, the clumsy intervention by Trump and Haley also made the vote a referendum on Trump’s often unilateral and abrasive foreign policy.

The debate and vote highlighted for a second time in a week the international isolation of the United States over the Jerusalem issue, following a similar vote in the security council on Tuesday in which it was outnumbered 14-1.

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The threatening US posture, which had been denounced as both counter-productive and “bullying”, only seemed to have hardened the resolve of countries in opposing Trump’s 6 December move.

The resolution, co-sponsored by Turkey and Yemen, called Trump’s recognition “null and void” and reaffirmed 10 security council resolutions on Jerusalem, dating back to 1967, including requirements that the city’s final status must be decided in direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians.

It also “demands that all states comply with security council resolutions regarding the holy city of Jerusalem, and not to recognise any actions or measures contrary to those resolutions”.

Earlier on Thursday, as it had become clear that the US and Israel would be heavily defeated, Netanyahu preemptively denounced the vote calling the UN a “house of lies”.

“The state of Israel rejects this vote outright,” Netanyahu said. “Jerusalem is our capital, we will continue to build there and additional embassies will move to Jerusalem.

“Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, whether or not the UN recognises this. It took 70 years for the United States to formally recognise this, and it will take years for the UN to do the same.”

Michael Oren, Israel’s deputy minister for diplomacy, called for Israel to cut its ties with the UN and expel the organisation from its Jerusalem offices.

“We must evict the UN from the scenic Governor’s House, where its bloated staff does nothing, and give this historic site to a school, a hospital or – best yet – a new US embassy.”

 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/21/united-nations-un-vote-donald-trump-jerusalem-israel

[alan14]

Just nuke all these ungrateful camel jockeys, take the oil and be done with it. They will all be happy with their 42 virgins. We all win!!!!!

[Bama Girl]

 I hope Trump does stop the gravy train from the U.S. to the U.N. Without us, they wouldn’t have the funds to overpay “the bloated staff”. As far as I’m concerned, we could have pulled out of the U.N. long ago and saved ourselves billions of dollars and could have expelled all the spying diplomats out of New York. I believe the U.N. lost its usefulness decades ago and I think it’s arguably whether it was ever useful enough for us to have spent the money we have spent to support it. Guess this subject hit a sore spot with me. 😡🙄☺️

[MyLadiesDaddy]

Genesis 12:3

And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

 

President Donald J. Trump just solidified his Presidency and has lit the fuse that will annihilate the EVIL DEMON possessed Democratic party.

God will Bless his administration and our nation for what President Trump has now done for Israel.

By the end of 2018 the Demonic controlled Democrats will not exist as they have for over 100 years.

And all their lackeys in the media will eat themselves like a dog to it's own vomit.  

 

[DoD]

Would someone remind me again why we're still in this worthless inept organization... The USA continues to give money to nations that want to kill us, unbelievable. We finally have a real leader an not a politician as president an one who's not afraid to put Americas interests first before the feelings of our enemies....