On Wednesday, President Trump, who absolutely refuses to be bullied by countries around the world that are vilifying him for recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, struck back.
The U.N. General Assembly is holding an emergency session on Thursday that was requested by Arab and Muslim countries to vote on a draft resolution calling for Trump to rescind his decision.
Trump let them have it with both barrels, asserting, “They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care.”
On Monday the 15-member U.N. Security Council voted on a Egyptian-drafted resolution that expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.” Only the U.S. voted against the resolution.
The five permanent members of the Security Council are the U.S., the United Kingdom, France, China, and the Russian Federation. The current non-permanent members are Bolivia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Senegal, Sweden, Ukraine, and Uruguay.
Israel has never sat on the Security Council since it was established in 1946, while Iran, Cuba, Syria, Iraq and Pakistan have all had at least one turn.
On Tuesday, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley issued a letter to dozens of U.N. states bluntly stating that Trump had asked her to “report back on those countries who voted against us.”
Haley followed with a terse Twitter message: “The U.S. will be taking names.”
A senior diplomat from a Muslim country ripped Haley for her letter, whining, “States resort to such blatant bullying only when they know they do not have a moral or legal argument to convince others.”
Haley slammed back on Twitter, writing, “Actually it is when a country is tired of being taken for granted.”
As Reuters noted, the U.S. government’s aid agency USAID stated that in 2016 the United States provided roughly $13 billion in economic and military assistance to countries in sub-Saharan Africa and $1.6 billion to states in East Asia and Oceania.
maybe it is time to cut off aide to dictators, butchers, and drug cartels. how what will paul ryan do.
The UN has become an Islamic tool. Did the UN take action against ISIS? Did the UN take action against the Muslim Brotherhood? Does the UN denounce Iran?
No, the antisemitic UN denounces Israel when they defend themselves against Islamic terrorism because that is what the Muslim nations want.
We would lose nothing by getting out of the UN.