Posted on 12/27/2016 11:19:14 AM PST by yoe
The rest of the title.....until the resolution is reversed!
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) tweeted on Saturday that he would oppose funding for the United Nations until the UN Security Council reversed an anti-Israel resolution that it approved on Friday, with the acquiescence of the Obama administration.
The resolution not only describes the Israeli presence across the 1949 armistice line as illegal — including in the Old City of Jerusalem — but also encourages countries to target Israeli settlements for boycotts.
The Obama administration had vetoed a similar resolution five years ago, taking the traditional U.S. position that the dispute between Israelis and Palestinians is best resolved between the two parties, and not by the UN. However, President Barack Obama and outgoing UN Ambassador Samantha Power — a genocide expert known for anti-Israel views, and notably silent on Syria for most of the past eight years — could not resist the opportunity to land a parting blow against Israel, and abstained from the resolution rather than vetoing it.
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It is good Cruz is doing this but we really need to leave the UN and kick the UN out of our country. Let them pass their crap resolutions in Geneva or some such place.
BUMP!
+1. The UN is a failed experiment that needs to justify its existence annually.
Sen. Cruz’ idea is a good start. The UN is a massive sinkhole for good money.
While I think that US participation in the UN is still more useful than withdrawal, we definitely need to reduce our spending and withhold funds until we get a proper accounting.
Once President Elect Trump and Ambassador designate Haley are in their respective offices, we should see a return to saner US policies toward the UN as a body and to its bureaucracy.
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Every journey begins with the first step.
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We need to replace it with an organization of free nations based on the principles of Western Liberal Democracies.
Toronto Ted was happy to let Hellary contribute the anti-Israel policy of Obama!
Lyin’ Ted’s politics are more in tune with his Canadian compatriots than with thr folks of Texas!
Call it The League of Free Nations
Who needs a United Nations when you can simply erase national borders entirely by issuing an H1-B visa to anyone with a pulse?
So long as it didn't have unfortunate connotations with that misbegotten child of Woodrow Wilson "The League of Nations"
I suspect that it would only be a matter of time before any organization degenerated to another UN if they accepted muslim heavy countries like France. I think it would be best for the US to just deal with other countries on a one on one basis as needed.
Question - where we he and Rand Paul when it was time to filibuster the Fake News act? Seriously did either of them say anything about it?
How exactly could they do that?
Accounting. Auditing. Proof of effectiveness and results.
My point is who sets the objective criteria to assess “effectiveness and results?”
I’m not disagreeing with you, just showing where there would be a massive hole of accountability to drive a truck through.
Toronto Ted now is he?
That’s a laff.
Obviously that poster knows nothing about Toronto.
I’ve been saying it for days- We don’t just need to quit funding the UN but rather take that money ($3 BILLION per year) and give that money to Israel to help them build further settlements- and turn the UN building into housing for Jews
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