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Tel Aviv Rejects ‘Shameful & Absurd Anti-Israel’ UN Resolution
Human Wrongs Watch By RT*
“Israel rejects this shameful anti-Israel resolution at the UN and will not abide by its terms,” the statement from the PM’s office said, according to Reuters.
The Obama administration “failed to protect Israel against this gang-up at the UN,” and what is even worse, “colluded with it behind the scenes,” the statement added.
In order to “negate the harmful effects of this absurd resolution,” Israel is looking forward to working with President-elect Trump and with “all our friends in Congress, Republicans and Democrats alike.”
Israel’s ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal – countries who along with Malaysia and Venezuela tabled the draft resolution – were immediately ordered to return to Tel Aviv for consultations.
Earlier, the Israeli ambassador to the council, Danny Danon slammed the vote as a “victory for terror, a victory for hatred and violence.”
“Who gave you the right to issue such a decree, denying our eternal rights in Jerusalem?” he added.
The UN Security Council resolution, demanding an end to the construction of Israeli settlements on occupied Palestinian territories, was adopted with 14 of 15 UNSC members voting in favor. The US was the only nation to abstain from voting.
The US defended its abstention from Israeli criticism by stating that one “cannot champion settlements and the two state solution” at the same time. The US Ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said the US did not veto the resolution as it “reflects the facts on the ground and is consistent with US policy.”
The main US pro-Israel lobby group, AIPAC, said it was “deeply disturbed” by the Obama administration’s reluctance to use its veto in what it described as a “destructive, one-sided, anti-Israel resolution.”
*Source: This article was published in RT. Go to Original.
**Photo: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 23, 2014, before the two sat down to discuss a possible cease-fire to stop Israel’s fight with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.| U.S. Department of State | public domain | Wikimedia Commons
2016 Human Wrongs Watch
Source: https://human-wrongs-watch.net/2016/12/24/tel-aviv-rejects-shameful-absurd-anti-israel-un-resolution/
Congratulations and well done ! to all those that voted for the occupying palestine zionists to stop their theft, and stop their illegal immigration invasion of other peoples land.
This was overdue, and needs to be applauded. all right minded peopel for justice would stand up to these ‘settlers’ who claim it is legal to steal someone elses land. they stole/seized the land in 1948 helped by the terrorist stern gang and convicted murdering terrorists menachem begin and yitshak shameer , not to mention irgun terrorists who blew the king david hotel killing british mps. since then they have expanded with state terror as nobody dared stop them. There are people that lobby for justcie for the palestinians, and the eviction of the zionists, including emabrgo, but it is a hard job as you know they control at the moment hollywood, media, business, banking, and probably the military and the president