Ted Cruz: No US funding for UN until Israel vote ‘reversed’

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Daniel Chaitin:

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz put the United Nations on notice Saturday evening, issuing his toughest statement yet in response to Friday’s vote to condemn Israeli settlement building.

In a tweet, the Republican lawmaker said he spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Saturday evening to not only wish him a happy Hanukkah, but also to “assure him of strong support in Congress.”

“No US $ for UN until reversed,” he added. That comment suggests that Cruz has made his mind up since Friday, when he said he looked forward to working with Sen. Lindsey Graham and President-elect Trump “to significantly reduce or even eliminate U.S. funding of the United Nations, and also to seriously reconsider financial support for the nations that supported this resolution.”

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In a 14-0 vote on Friday, the U.N. Security Council condemned Israel for settlements in areas of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The Obama administration abstained on the measure, marking a significant shift of U.S. policy just weeks before Obama completes his second term in the White House.

Obama ordered the veto of a similar resolution in 2011, but his administration has grown increasingly critical of the settlements in the past year and frustrated with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, which the Obama team sees as partially responsible for the failure of recent Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.

Friday’s abstention prompted a wave of criticism from Trump, Republicans and even members of the Democratic Party.

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No more funding to the Useless Nations PEIROD

Those who support the UN’s ongoing attitude towards Israel (enable terrorism, deny Israel the right to self-defense, always taking the side of the terrorists) is nothing but anti-Semitism. They will not be satisfied until Israel is destroyed and every Israeli is slaughtered.

I dont know how much $$ the US spends on this but it could be spent on better things, Turning it into Trump condos would be fun.

The UN resolution was a formal expression of the opinion that Israel should not be creating settlements in former Palestinian territories that have never been recognized as belonging to the State of Israel. Obviously doing so is not a step in the direction of any sort of peaceful solution to the problem.

Netanyahu apparently views Donald Trump as an opportunity. Lots of people seem to view Donald Trump as an opportunity.

@Greg: That coward did this thinking he would have no political skin lost…wrong. There never ever ever has been a country of Palestine, it is Israel building in Israel they are subdivisions, housing. This horrible vote against the ONLY democratic country in the ME. Screw the anti american UN defund and pull out of it wash its filth off our hands.
Not even the manhood to order a yes or no exactly like in his senate days.