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2017-02-12 International-UN-NGOs

UN in Uproar After Trump Vetoes High Post For Ex-Premier of ‘Palestine’

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Posted by Steve White 2017-02-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 And he's trolling, and I'm laughing, and he's leading, and I'm smiling, and he's planning and I'm relaxing, and He's making me happy.

He's going the distance...

Posted by newc 2017-02-12 01:29|| 2017-02-12 01:29|| Front Page Top

#2 “They have smart career folks at State & NSC who could educate them about Fayyad before a statement goes out. Ask them,” tweeted Daniel Shapiro, President Obama’s former ambassador in Israel.

Smarmy little loser

Posted by Frank G 2017-02-12 08:24|| 2017-02-12 08:24|| Front Page Top

#3 “They have smart career folks at State & NSC ... Ask them,”

Ask them. And then do the exact opposite.

Posted by SteveS 2017-02-12 08:36|| 2017-02-12 08:36|| Front Page Top

#4 Its only just the beginning. America First. We're not here to make you happy. The record shows the only thing that would make you happy is for us to roll over and die. We're not going to do that.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-02-12 09:32|| 2017-02-12 09:32|| Front Page Top

#5 No P2k, they don't want us to die; they just want us to keep laying those golden eggs on demand.

Posted by AlanC 2017-02-12 09:52|| 2017-02-12 09:52|| Front Page Top

#6 They want us to keep them in the golden eggs while they can insult us and kill us at will.

Posted by DarthVader 2017-02-12 09:57|| 2017-02-12 09:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Salam Fayyad, about whom Fred writes

...Fayyad's political agenda holds that neither violence nor peaceful negotiations have brought the Paleostinians any closer to an independent state. The alternative to both, violent negotiations, doesn't seem to be working too well, either...

has a PhD in economics from the University of Texas at Austin and came to the PA from the IMF, according to Wikipedia. He had an interesting West Bank First approach, arguing that if the PA put in place a functioning, transparent infrastructure, statehood would inevitably follow. He did his technocratic best, and was much praised by donors for it; naturally President Abbas fired him for something or other. He was replaced by a linguistics professor.

He is probably the only Palestinian suitable for the job, though he would be as poor a fit at the UN as he was in the PA, but given the PA's current push to achieve statehood by UN imposition rather than negotiation with Israel, it is of course impossible. Had Hillary Clinton won, he'd have been a shoe-in.

Posted by trailing wife 2017-02-12 10:14|| 2017-02-12 10:14|| Front Page Top

#8 And Mr. Guterres is still a socialist.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2017-02-12 13:02|| 2017-02-12 13:02|| Front Page Top

#9 He's also not good at letting the UN Security Council review his candidate before voting.

This one, though, is on Mr. Guterres, who assumed office January 1 and has yet to get administration in order. “You don’t send a nomination for Security Council approval before making sure all involved are on board, especially when it’s so full of obvious sensitivities,” said a veteran United Nations official.

Posted by Pappy 2017-02-12 19:58|| 2017-02-12 19:58|| Front Page Top

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