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Posted on 07/04/2015 3:39:26 PM PDT by SoConPubbie
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz called Friday for the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), after the body voted to condemn Israel's conduct during the 2014 war in Gaza.
The U.S. was the only country to vote against the resolution put before the council Friday, with 41 voting in favor, and five countries abstaining. The resolution condemned Israel's targeting of innocent civilians during the conflict, and also called for an end to the impunity of Israeli officials responsible for alleged war crimes.
In a statement posted on his website, Cruz said that the single U.S. vote against the censure was a “meaningless gesture.”
“It is time to stop ceding moral authority to the UNHRC and tell the truth about this hopelessly biased and anti-Semitic institution. … The United States should stop legitimizing the UNHRC with our membership and withdraw now,” he added.
Other critics of the resolution argued that it ignored criticism of the Palestinian side raised in an earlier U.N. Report, which accused both sides in the conflict of committing war crimes.
“We are troubled that this current resolution focuses exclusively on alleged Israeli violations, without any expressed reference to Palestinian violations,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Keith Harper said as he explained why his country voted against the resolution, the Jerusalem Post reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also condemned the UNHRC in a statement, saying that the body was neither interested "in facts nor in true human rights," Haaretz reported.
The United Nations has long been a target of Republican ire. President George W. Bush's former ambassador to the U.N., John Bolton, famously once remarked that if the U.N. building “lost ten stories it wouldn’t make a bit of difference.”
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Ted Cruz Ping! I’ll be in church but when I get home will read how he does on shows tomorrow...his new book and all...the tougher the questions the better as the press is too arrogant to know they are no match for him...if he talks over them to the people like Reagan did...it’s a winner.
I’d say quit the whole UN, but it’s a start.
I’m liking Cruz more and more.
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| "I am an American fighting man. I serve in the forces guarding our country and our way of life. I am prepared to give my life in their defense." |
"Instead of a president who boycotts Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, imagine America’s standing unapologetically with the nation of Israel.
Imagine a commander in chief standing up with clarity and saying we will defeat radical Islamic terrorists. And under no circumstances will the nation of Iran be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons.
Some weeks ago I joined with 46 other senators signing a letter that we sent to Iran explaining that under the United States Constitution there are only two way something becomes a law, either it is a treaty ratified by two-thirds of the Senate or a law passed by both houses of Congress signed by the president.
Well the Obama White House went a little hysterical about that letter."Ted Cruz
click the pic
With you 200%.
The ambassador must not have gotten the word. The resolution condemned Israel, so the Imam Barack Hussein Obama would definitely be for it.
I’ll go you one better, Senator. Throw the whole damnable lot of them out of our country and cut off the money!
He’s the best.
Member states of the European Union, such as Estonia, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the Netherlands supported the Gaza resolution.
Five countries — Ethiopia, India, Paraguay, the Republic of Macedonia, Kenya — abstained.
It’s a start...
The resolution, which was drafted by the Palestinians and Arab states, condemns Israel’s targeting of innocent civilians and completely ignores the rockets launched by Hamas; it also ignores the inquiry’s criticism of the Palestinian side.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.664316
Believe me, FRiends, I have a checklist.
Interesting - at least three of those five have had recent Muslim problems (not sure about FYROM).
READ: Full text of UNHRC Gaza resolution
http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/READ-Full-text-of-UNHRC-Gaza-resolution-407950
Enough of Americans hard earned tax dollars has been stolen by this out of control government and sent to the socialist in the UN to have purchased every country in the world!
Enough is certainly enough!
Get us out of the UN and bulldoze the entire building and kick every UN employee and representative out of this Country for ever!
Wish someone running would have the balls to say get the US out of the UN, period.
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