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US vetoes UN resolution on Jerusalem, as Muslim states recognize East Jerusalem as Palestine’s capital

The United States on Monday vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for the U.S. to rescind its recent decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The other 14 members of the Security Council voted to approve the Egyptian-drafted resolution.

The resolution did not mention the United States by name, but targeted the Trump administration’s Dec. 6 decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel, by affirming “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status or demographic composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the Security Council.”

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the vote at the Security Council “an insult” that “won’t be forgotten,” according to Reuters. Her dissenting vote marked the first time in six years the U.S. used its veto power. The last instance was in 2011 when the Obama administration struck down a resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlement construction. 

Anticipating a U.S. veto, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), announced days previously that the group plans to try and get the resolution taken to the General Assembly, in an attempt to bypass the U.S. veto through the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism in the UN, which was created to deal with stalemates in the Security Council.

The OIC met last week to discuss the plan at the request of Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. At that meeting, the 57 member states announced that the OIC would recognize East Jerusalem as the capital of the State of Palestine.

In addition, Erdogan on Sunday expressed his wish to move the Turkish embassy to East Jerusalem. However, that move is unlikely given Israel’s occupation of the city.

Ahead of the vote on Monday, Reuters reported that UN Middle East peace envoy Nickolay Mladenov told the council that “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.”

At least ten Palestinians have been killed in the twelve days since a wave of upheaval in the occupied Palestinian territory was sparked by Trump’s decision, with more than 300 Palestinians newly detained in Israeli prisons and 3,000 more injured in violence at the hands of Israeli forces attempting to suppress protests through clashes and night raids.

Outside of the Israeli government, the U.S. has no ally in its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, with the international community widely condemning the U.S.’s move.

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re “U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the vote at the Security Council “an insult” that “won’t be forgotten,” according to Reuters. Her dissenting vote marked the first time in six years the U.S. used its veto power. The last instance was in 2011 when the Obama administration struck down a resolution that would have condemned Israeli settlement construction. ”

Some say that we live in an era dominated by partisan politics, but there’s a bipartisan consensus among our elites on one topic, at least. It is a shame that it is a consensus that makes us complicit regardless of which party is nominally in power. “Shame” is the operative word.

Haley is a tramp

RE: “U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, called the vote at the Security Council ‘an insult’ that ‘won’t be forgotten’, according to Reuters. Her dissenting vote marked the first time in six years the U.S. used its veto power.” ~ Khalel

An Ode in Praise of Nikki Haley

A new sheriff’s come to town,
and as an enforcer of Trump’s “America First” policy,
she’s gonna take on Israel’s enemies at the UN,
In addition to having Netanyahu’s back,
she’s gonna be on the Mad Mullah’s case like white on rice.
‘Cause she’s sharpened up the spiked heels on her Stilettos,
and strapped on her Lady Tequila custom ‘double rig’.
That’s right, our very own rough ridin’, “Pistol Packin’ Mama”, Ms. Nikki Haley,
is lookin’ to dispense a heapin’ he’pin’ of her Wild West justice
to that den of iniquity called the UN.
Stay tuned for our eyewitness report with all the gory details.
Meanwhile, give a lis’en to ol’ Al Dexter and his troopers!

Al Dexter & his troopers – Pistol Packin’ Mama
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWcb9N9gRZo

Oh boy. The US and Israel overplayed their cards. They both hoped that they could turn an illegal reality into a recognized reality and that the rest of the world would follow. Israel dragged the US and its nepotistic president into violating international law. Now both states stand even more isolated than ever before, Israel’s ‘lawyer’ has lost its pseudo honest “broker” role and the rest of the Security Council is even more united against them. And this probably brought the muslim world more together than muslims could have ever done themselves, Turkey is leading this process and Russia is lining up for the broker role. What a ultimate disaster in US’ and Israel’s foreign policy.

RE: “Outside of the Israeli government, the U.S. has no ally in its decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel . . .”

Czech Republic recognizes pre-1967 Jerusalem as capital of Israel …
https://www.timesofisrael.com/czech-republic-recognizes-pre-1967-jerusalem-as-capital-of-israel/
Dec 7, 2017 – The Czech Republic said in a statement Wednesday that it recognizes the pre-1967 west Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but that it will only consider moving its embassy from Tel Aviv to the city after talks with regional partners. The announcement came hours after US President Donald Trump declared …

P.S. I have accepted the “REALITY” that there is virtually no chance that, in the long-term, the plight of the Palestinians will be improved by any “peace agreement” the Israeli government would conceivably agree to, even as a product of negotiations under the auspices of a legitimate ‘honest broker’, rather than the duplicitous U.S. In fact, “peace agreement” would be a misnomer, since it would effectively be a ‘submission agreement’ wherein the Palestinians acknowledged the “REALITY” that a pittance of sovereignty (most likely, little more than the right to fly their flag ) over their non-contiguous Bantustans was all the U.S. and Israel were ever going to allow them to have. Of course, I imagine there would have been much talk of the ultimate Marshal Plan to help them drown their sorrows, but even if it were put into print, they would have been wise not to expect much of it to ever materialize. The Palestinian diaspora’s buyout would more likely be fully funded (mostly by the Gulf States), since some of them would live in the West and have governments with an interest in seeing to it that they received any cash payments they were due.