Cutting More Foreign Aid

128 NATIONS THUMB NOSE AT TRUMP'S JERUSALEM RECOGNITION, U.N. vote comes after president warns U.S. aid could be pulled from bullying countries, by Bob Unruh, 12/21/17, WND

A total of 128 United Nations members thumbed their collective nose at the United States Thursday, voting to condemn President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, as U.S. law has mandated for two decades.

Trump warned before the vote that it could affect U.S. aid. The U.S., a key provider of aid worldwide, provides 23 percent of the U.N. budget, making it by far the largest contributor.

The vote in the U.N. General Assembly to formally condemn the U.S. decision regarding Jerusalem was 128-9, with 35 abstentions.

Supporting the condemnation were traditional American allies such as France and the United Kingdom. Israel and less influential members, such as Honduras, Guatemala, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Togo, Tonga and the Marshall Islands, joined the U.S. in voting against it.

Canada and several dozen others abstained.

U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley warned prior to the vote that she would be “taking names” of nations that condemn the president’s decision.

The U.S. vetoed a similar resolution of condemnation in the Security Council earlier this week.

President Trump declared that the U.N. and nations that supported the resolution should expect consequences.

“They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care,” he said Wednesday. “This isn’t like it used to be where they could vote against you and then you pay them hundreds of millions of dollars and nobody knows what they’re doing.

“People are tired of the United States – people that live here that are great citizens that love this country – they’re tired of this country being taken advantage of. And we’re not going to be taken advantage of any longer.”

It was Turkey and Yemen, on behalf of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation, that demanded the vote in an emergency meeting in response to Trump’s Dec. 6 Jerusalem declaration.

The president said he was recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital and that the U.S. will move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, though the timing is uncertain.

He explained the decision was “nothing more or less than a recognition of reality” and that the move should not be interpreted as a departure from the U.S. stance of working toward a peaceful “two-state solution” to the age-old Arab-Israeli conflict.

Haley, earlier in the week, tweeted: “At the UN we’re always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American people, about where to locate OUR embassy, we don’t expect those we’ve helped to target us. On Thurs there’ll be a vote criticizing our choice. The US will be taking names.”

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See vote tally at:
http://www.wnd.com/2017/12/128-nations-thumb-nose-at-trumps-jerusalem-recognition/

Comments

The UN is a globalist cult. They launched the global warming hoax and created UN Agenda 21 to ruin us. We need to cut all the foreign aid we can and let these countries support themselves. It’s time to stop giving them a fish and begin to teach them how to fish. We will keep our presence wherever terrorists are operating to eliminate them.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader