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Salute Example, Amb. Haley Wow (double dog wow)
German Magazine: Lost prestige for sure - it can't be denied
UNITED
NATIONS (Reuters)
- The United States was further isolated on Monday over President Trump’s unilateral decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital when it blocked a
UN Security Council call for the declaration to be withdrawn.
The
remaining 14 council members voted in favor of the Egyptian-drafted resolution,
which did not specifically mention the United States or Trump but which
expressed “deep regret at recent decisions concerning the status of Jerusalem.”
“What we witnessed here in the Security Council is an
insult. It won’t be forgotten,” U.S.
Ambassador Nikki Haley said after the vote, adding that it was the first
veto cast by the United States in more than six years.
Haley continued: “The fact
that this veto is being done in defense of American sovereignty and in defense
of America’s role in the Middle East peace process is not a source of embarrassment
for us; it should be an embarrassment to the remainder of the Security Council,”
she concluded: “This U.N. draft resolution affirmed that any decisions and
actions which purport to have altered the character, status or demographic
composition of the Holy City of Jerusalem have no legal effect, are null and
void and must be rescinded in compliance with relevant resolutions of the
Security Council.”
(I note, no,
Ms. Haley: The insult, if any, is that the U.S. under Trump wants to dictate to
the ME where their capital should or should not be rather than leaving the
important decision up to the parties in the region and not the U.S. The recent
outrage and backlash we have seen proves this point).
Background up to this point: Trump abruptly reversed decades of
U.S. policy this month when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital,
generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab world and concern among
Washington’s western allies.
“In the wake
of the decision of the United States ... the situation has become more tense
with an increase in incidents, notably rockets fired from Gaza and clashes
between Palestinians and Israeli security forces,” U.N. Middle East peace envoy
Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council ahead of the vote.
Trump plans
to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. The draft U.N. resolution
had called upon all countries to refrain from establishing diplomatic missions
in Jerusalem. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu thanked Haley and Trump
for the veto in a video clip posted on his Facebook page. Israel considers
Jerusalem its eternal and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based
there.
Palestinians
want the capital of an independent Palestinian state to be in the city’s
eastern sector, which Israel captured in a 1967 war and annexed in a move never
recognized internationally.
What lies ahead: In essence, Trump is wrong, Haley is
wrong, and so is anyone else who advocates that same view and thus supports Trump
and his unilateral dictator-like decisions. The UN S/C “no” vote clearly shows that
the UN, whose members are equal to the U.S. members are saying in essence the U.S.
stance is a poor decision.
More so and directly related to the UN members’ view of Trump and the U.S. is seen on that German magazine cover above which features Trump draped in
an American flag and doing the Nazi salute was based on Trump failing to
quickly condemn white supremacists and neo-Nazis after the violent rallies in Charlottesville, VA.
The article is titled: “Sein Kampf” (a play on Adolf Hitler’s 1925 autobiography “Mein Kampf”) – translated into English
as “My Struggle.”
The sub-headline reads: “His (Trump’s) Struggle: Ku Klux Klan, Racism: How Donald Trump
Stirs the Hate in America.”
Now, following that U.S. veto, Egypt’s Foreign
Ministry said Arab states, which had agreed earlier this month to seek a
Security Council resolution on the issue, would meet to evaluate the situation
to determine what their next steps might be.
Yet, Trumpsters cling to Trump’s judgment on this,
which turns out to be in layman’s terms: Piss poor.
We are in rough waters and rough times ahead. Stay
tuned.
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