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UN votes resoundingly reject Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as capital

FIVR

FIVR

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A few US puppet regimes in latin america were the only nations to vote against the resolution.

I actually view Trump's decision as a good thing (ultimately), because all Trump has done is destroy US influence in the middle east and endanger his own terror-bombing military operations throughout the region. Eventually the US will be thrown out of every last country in the middle east and that will be a great day indeed. Thanks Nikki Haley, you really stuck it to Netanyahu, Israel, and the US with your idiotic speeches.

The United Nations general assembly has delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump, voting by a huge majority to reject his unilateral recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

The vote came after a redoubling of threats by Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the UN, who said that Washington would remember which countries “disrespected” America by voting against it.

Despite the warning, 128 members voted on Thursday in favour of the resolution supporting the long-standing international consensus that the status of Jerusalem – which is claimed as a capital by both Israel and the Palestinians – can only be settled as an agreed final issue in a peace deal.

Although largely symbolic, the vote in emergency session of the world body had been the focus of days of furious diplomacy by both the Trump administration and Israel, including Trump’s threat to cut US funding to countries that did not back the US recognition.

But only nine states – including the United States and Israel –voted against the resolution. The other countries which supported Washington were Togo, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Marshall Islands, Guatemala, and Honduras.
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http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/republicans-shutdown/index.html
 
dank69 said:
Trump saving us all that money! MAGA!
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It will be funny to see if he follows through with it. I doubt he will, given that Mattis is the one who is in charge of his military policy. There is no way Mattis is going to risk ties with Turkey and Egypt over Trump's twitter buffoonery and Nikki Haley's airhead nationalism.
 
FIVR said:
A few US puppet regimes in latin america were the only nations to vote against the resolution.

I actually view Trump's decision as a good thing (ultimately), because all Trump has done is destroy US influence in the middle east and endanger his own terror-bombing military operations throughout the region. Eventually the US will be thrown out of every last country in the middle east and that will be a great day indeed. Thanks Nikki Haley, you really stuck it to Netanyahu, Israel, and the US with your idiotic speeches.




http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/20/politics/republicans-shutdown/index.html
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I think you provided the wrong link.
 
This is one are where I don't think Trump is too far off base. I'll admit he's just doing it to throw some red meat at his base.
What we've been doing in the ME hasn't worked I'm all in for a change, even if it's a semi retarded change.
Keeping the Embassy out of Jerusalem doesn't make us appear neutral so why bother.
I also agree (in a limited sense) that if a Country is accepting aid from us it's not unreasonable of us to expect them to abstain from voting.
I do fear Trump kicking a bees nest for no good reason but again it's not like the loony fringe of the ME doesn't think we're tight Allies with Israel.
 
Religious nuts, colonialistic whackjobs and nonsensical arab folktales will not make me throw away my maps that list Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel.
 
Fanatical Meat said:
This is one are where I don't think Trump is too far off base. I'll admit he's just doing it to throw some red meat at his base.
What we've been doing in the ME hasn't worked I'm all in for a change, even if it's a semi retarded change.
Keeping the Embassy out of Jerusalem doesn't make us appear neutral so why bother.
I also agree (in a limited sense) that if a Country is accepting aid from us it's not unreasonable of us to expect them to abstain from voting.
I do fear Trump kicking a bees nest for no good reason but again it's not like the loony fringe of the ME doesn't think we're tight Allies with Israel.
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I am also down for some semi-retarded change. In fact, I am down for as much semi-retarded change as we can get.
 
Two things that really bother me about this controversy is how arrogant Trump and Haley came across when they were interviewed about their decision (read as very defensive and smug) and how they both spoke as if the vast majority of Americans want what these two characters want.

This thing about Trump seeming to think he has the full support of the nation to isolate itself, even against our own close and longtime allies is ludicrous. I think he really believes that whatever makes him feel good about himself is what's good for the nation. For Trump, this whole deal about being POTUS is a purely self-satisfying experience at the expense of whatever it takes to get him to feel that way.

Looks like diplomacy counts only when it applies to Putin and whatever he has hanging over Trump's head.
 
crashtech said:
All I have learned from this is that it's okay for administrations to spend decades saying the US embassy ought to be moved, but not okay to actually do it.
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Well. For decades they always said it would have to be a part of an actual peace agreement. Which every other country thought was the correct way to do it.
 
I love it these are the stellar countries who are bedrocks of the worlds democracy!

Besides the US United States
Israel - well of course...

And other countries for the US!

Togo
Micronesia
Nauru
Palau
Marshall Islands
Guatemala
Honduras.

HAHAHAHA ha hahaha ha, fucking hliraous,

And the whiney woman who think other countries care what the US thinks anymore, its heading to third worlds status. And no the americans DON'T want the embassy in Jerusalem only the religious zealots do.

 
Israel has the right to name whatever they want for their capital and we or any other nation for that matter has the right to recognize their decision. With so much internal corruption at the UN its hard to take anything they say seriously.
 
MomentsofSanity said:
Well. For decades they always said it would have to be a part of an actual peace agreement. Which every other country thought was the correct way to do it.
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Sometimes unilateral action is required to bring about favorable conditions for peace, and the US is one of probably three countries with enough power to do so.

Both sides selectively omit facts from their narratives, but I agree with Dershowitz's take more than the other side:

Why Trump is right in recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital
 
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