Washington – Senator Lindsey Graham said on Friday that U.S. foreign policy under President Barack Obama “has gone from naive and foolish to flat-out reckless” after the United States abstained from voting on a U.N. resolution condemning Israeli settlement activity.
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The senior Republican senator, in a note on Twitter after the vote, said: “With friends like these, #Israel doesn’t need any enemies.”
“Regardless of the terrorist attacks they suffer or the number of rockets fired their way, in the United Nations Israel is always the bad guy,” said Graham, who has threatened to work to “suspend or significantly reduce” U.S. support for the United Nations over the resolution.
will see if he is going to carry out the threat.
The US has done nothing different than it has done in the past under both Republican and Democratic administrations. It has almost always abstained from voting on such resolutions.
Wow, what a scary threat from Graham! Idiot. Hopefully Mr. Trump will finally take proper action against the UN.
There are fourteen members of the Security Council. Thirteen of them voted against Israel. The United States did not exercise its veto.
If you want to be correct, you ought to note Russian, China, the UK, France (permanent members) as well as Angola, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, Uruguay and Venezuela (temporary members) also voted for the resolution.