Obama's U.N. move seen as OK for violence by Palestinians

Source: www.wnd.com - Friday, December 30, 2016
One of the ripple effects of the Obama administration’s decision to allow adoption of a U.N. resolution condemning Israel is that it sends a message some Palestinians understand as an authorization for violence. That’s according to Khaled Abu Toameh, an award-winning journalist in Jerusalem writing for the Gatestone Institute in New York. The U.N. resolution , including the U.S. refusal to exercise its veto, has generated a firestorm of criticism of the international body. Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says the U.S. should take the billions of dollars it now gives to the U.N. and instead give it to American soldiers who served “under the U.S. flag.” While the U.N. vote blasts Israel for Jewish communities in territory recaptured by Israel in the 1967 war launched by its Arab neighbors, the fight really is over the fact that while Israel repeatedly has offered negotiations, Palestinian leaders have refused even to recognize Israel’s right to exist. Huckabee is just one of a number of figures who have criticized the Obama administration for its part in the U.N. resolution. An online petition urges Congress and President-elect Donald Trump not only to defund the U.N.’s operations, including at its headquarters in New York, but also to withdraw from the global body and even expel it from America. Sign the petition encouraging Congress and President-election Donald Trump to defund, discount and deport the United Nations. Wrote To

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