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2016-12-24 International-UN-NGOs

U.N. Security Council demands end to Israeli settlements, U.S. abstains

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Posted by Fred 2016-12-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Way past time to close it down, move the entire sordid mess to Zimbabwe.

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-24 00:33|| 2016-12-24 00:33|| Front Page Top

#2 Long past time for Israel to learn to ignore this collection of third savages and western degenerates.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-12-24 03:34|| 2016-12-24 03:34|| Front Page Top

#3 'I will have more flexibility after her election.'

Posted by Besoeker 2016-12-24 07:59|| 2016-12-24 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 I guess the personnel at State think their resumes are good enough for the Foundation, Trust, and DNC jobs come this year. This is what they've worked towards for many generations. One last great act of defiance. Gut it. No apologies. See - Sun Tzu and the concubines.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-12-24 08:42|| 2016-12-24 08:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Why can't the UN be moved to Zimbabwe ? Would it be harder to order Eggs Benedict for breakfast there and a shortage of Champagne Lunches and Lobster for Dinner and the Red tape and the long halls lined with rubber stamps ?

Or perhaps the hotel accommodations don't measure up in ( what is the capitol of ZimBOB by the WAY? )

Posted by Uleating Snore3326 2016-12-24 10:05|| 2016-12-24 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 Wretchard T. Cat on FB:
The most instructive thing about Obama's Security Council abstention is he didn't have the guts to do it earlier, when he stood to lose something by doing it. Only after he calculated there was nothing more to squeeze from that particular quarter did he run up the Jolly Roger. Had it cost him it would have meant something, even as a gesture.

But even more interesting was his willingness to damage the Democratic party who he's leaving with political bill, not to mention the fact that the policy his abstention represents makes little sense.

Israel is likely to emerge as a linchpin in the region, after Obama's power vacuum bomb reduces the nearby countries to waste. If Turkey and Iran fall apart, which is not inconceivable, then Obama will have antagonized the last man standing.

It was bad timing and pointless, like a punch thrown by a fighter lying on the canvas -- at the referee. That would leave his legacy a consistently dysfunctional whole: conceived in delusion, executed in incompetence.

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-24 10:47|| 2016-12-24 10:47|| Front Page Top

#7 The resolution, put forward by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal

Cut their aid please.

Posted by Tennessee 2016-12-24 12:29|| 2016-12-24 12:29|| Front Page Top

#8 An abstention by the United States paved the way for the 15-member council to approve the resolution, with 14 votes in favor, to a round of applause, and provided Baraq Obama one last chance to vote present.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2016-12-24 15:33|| 2016-12-24 15:33|| Front Page Top

#9 A dick move for sure Tennessee, but I suspect Senegal is the only one receiving funds.$140 million as of 2012, not enough to buy a U.S. Soccer team.

Posted by Shipman 2016-12-24 16:36|| 2016-12-24 16:36|| Front Page Top

#10 Also to blame: Shanty-Irish Willem Dafoe lookalike Samantha Powers who has been ineffective when she's not being just Anti-American

Posted by Frank G 2016-12-24 16:49|| 2016-12-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

#11 Add any nation who voted for it to the list of terrorist nations. Declare all treaties with them null and void, deny any and all travel to and from them, call in any loans they have and expel their embassies from the United States. Sink any vessel flying their flag, I'm sure we can use the target practice.

Posted by Silentbrick 2016-12-24 16:49|| 2016-12-24 16:49|| Front Page Top

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