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Israel strikes back after UN settlement vote, Pope Francis hopes for peace
[DAWN] Israel on Sunday summoned representatives of states that supported a UN resolution demanding it halt settlement activity, while cutting civilian coordination with Paleostinians by way of rebuke.Foreign ministry front man Emmanuel Nahshon said that the 14 envoys of UN Security Council members will visit the ministry in Jerusalem throughout the day. The Council passed the measure Friday after the United States abstained, enabling the adoption of the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy. The US envoy was not summoned. The resolution demands "Israel immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Paleostinian territory, including east Jerusalem." It says settlements have "no legal validity" and are "dangerously imperilling the viability of the two-state solution." Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who had rejected the resolution as a "shameful blow against Israel," repeated on Sunday the Israeli claim that US President Barack Obama Republicans can come along for the ride, but they've got to sit in the back... and Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, unsuccessful presidential candidate, and utterly failed Secretary of State... were behind the resolution. Posted by: Fred 2016-12-26 |
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