A letter pushed by Israeli Lobby faction AIPAC and signed by more than half of the members of the US House of Representatives is demanding that the Obama Administration move against the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) to express “displeasure” for Palestine gaining recognition as a non-member observer status at the United Nations.
The letter calls for the US to immediate forcibly close the PLO’s office in Washington DC and recall the US Consul-General from Jerusalem, as well as immediately defunding the United Nations and all UN-affiliated organizations that recognize Palestine.
Palestine’s status was recognized in late November, in a 138-9 vote. The US fought to keep the vote from even taking place, while Israel insisted after the fact that the vote was “meaningless” and announced massive new settlement expansions on Palestinian lands in retaliation.
The letter got its start with Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R – FL) and Howard Berman (D – CA), and follows an attempt to add similar language in the NDAA in the Senate, though it never came to a vote.
For a "meaningless" vote there seems to be quite a lot of retribution going on…
I'd rather see a concerted effort to weed out and remove from our government those individuals who have a problem regarding their loyalty to the USA, not Israel. Ros-Lehtinen especially constantly confuses for whom she serves.
Yes! Yes! Yes!
Also, if they think it's meaningless because the UN is illegitimate, then surely the UN vote to create the state of Israel in the first place was also meaningless, right?
Isn't there some sleazy sex scandal that can be used to remove these two traitorous bastards from the US Congress.
Dude, for Congress, a sex scandal is good for their career…proves they're human and sometimes weak…and then they ask God (and their constituents) for forgiveness…and everything is okey-dokey again…
A shame no one has found some email or something where Ileana is sending a picture of her wiener to Feinstein.
Yehhh…, start bombing the world, who needs it anyway.., is a no good place for humans to live, so let us show them who is the boss with the big gun here, even if its killing our children while they are at school, a place of learning. Who the f^%#}*£€¥£€"'n needs that.., our aipac children go to a privet school they all have a privet security guard and well protected by our big gun.., if that's not enough then nuck the Palestinians and those who support them all together.., nuck them come on man.
I think Political Action Committee's should be outlawed.
All foreign ones should register as foreign agents.
Just who do these traitorous Congress critters work for anyway?
America is founded upon all being equal so how come these chosenites have managed to gang up and rule? It beggars belief, it must be Satan.
If Aipac want to have Israel leave the UN tell them to do it! America never will, they control the UN security council, and if they leave, or even defund the UN they no longer have that control!
Ha ha ha are these Aipac Lackeys so stupid that they do not understand the basic workings of the UN, of course though we are talking about AMERICAN POLITICIANS!
Any way of finding out who signed that treasonous "letter"? I intend to ask my sorry-ass Congresswoman, Shelly Moore Capito's office – not that I necessarily expect the truth. That crooked woman, whom I vote against every two years to no avail, has taken more "free" junkets to Israel than has that Christian Zionist fraud, John "God Blesses Israel" Hagee.
While you are at it, tell them Israel bans Christian celebrations of Christmas.
This issue first came to public attention two years ago when it was revealed that Shimon Gapso, the mayor of Upper Nazareth, had banned Christmas trees from all public buildings in his northern Israeli city.
“Upper Nazareth is a Jewish town and all its symbols are Jewish,” Gapso said. “As long as I hold office, no non-Jewish symbol will be presented in the city.”
But Gapso is not alone in his trenchant opposition to making even the most cursory nod towards multiculturalism. The city's chief rabbi, Isaiah Herzl, has refused to countenance a single Christmas tree in Upper Nazareth, arguing that it would be “offensive to Jewish eyes”.
http://mondoweiss.net/2012/12/lurking-christmas-c…
Well, well, well, so this is what US commitment to a two-state solution really means! How much further will these Zionist poodles drag the US down from the principles of its founding fathers! Thank heavens for AIPAC: those pretensions to lofty ideals lay bare for what they are. Now that Nutty-yahoo has openly declared his position on UN resolutions, he has undermined the very organization that offered any basis for dispossessing Palestinians through the partioning of their ancestral home in 1948. The UN has every reason to now expel this rogue entity.
Who says the Jewry are not trying to take over the world!
For both countries professing to and going around the world about how much they love and support democracy, they sure do go out of their way to suppress suppress and ridicule the results when democracy comes knocking on the door and smacks them in the face.
Planting time-bombs in America's foreign policy – that's what this amounts to. Stooges for Israeli warmongering.
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*** Resolution 672 (1990) – BINDING
Adopted by the Security Council at its 2948th meeting on 12 October 1990
The Security Council,
Recalling its resolutions 476 (1980) and 478 (1980),
Reaffirming that a just and lasting solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict must be based on its resolutions 242 (1967) and 338 (1973) through an active negotiating process which takes into account the right to security for all States in the region, including Israel, as well as the legiti-mate political rights of the Palestinian people,
Taking into consideration the statement of the Secretary-General relative to the purpose of the mission he is sending to the region and conveyed to the Council by the President on 12 October 1990,
1. Expresses alarm at the violence which took place on 8 October at the Al Haram al Shareef and other Holy Places of Jerusalem resulting in over twenty Palestinian deaths and to the in-jury of more than one hundred and fifty people, including Palestinian civilians and innocent worshippers;
2. Condemns especially the acts of violence committed by the Israeli security forces resulting in injuries and loss of human life;
3. Calls upon Israel, the occupying Power, to abide scrupulously by its legal obligations and responsibilities under the Fourth Geneva Convention, which is applicable to all the territories occupied by Israel since 1967;
4. Requests, in connection with the decision of the Secretary-General to send a mission to the region, which the Council welcomes, that he submit a report to it before the end of October 1990 containing his findings and conclusions and that he use as appropriate all the resources of the United Nations in the region in carrying out the mission.
24th April 2012 – UK Foreign Secretary William Hague said:
“I strongly condemn the Israeli government’s decision yesterday to turn three illegal outposts in the West Bank into settlements. I urged the Israeli government in my statement on 5 April to remove – not legalise – outposts across the West Bank”.
Furthermore, I would like to refer you to specific serious concerns raised by the International Court of Justice (2004) – with relevance to the ‘security barrier’ – which was viewed with alarm by the international community. Incidentally the reference to the illegality of settle-ments in the West Bank and East Jerusalem was also reinforced when the International Court of Justice also found the following (indeed the EU supported the UN vote pertaining to the ‘security barrier’):
* That the separation barrier is intended to assist the settlements, the establishment of which violates Article 49 of the Convention. Also, the court pointed out that the restrictions placed on the local population located between the barrier and the Green Line are liable to lead to abandonment of the land, which also constitutes a violation of Article 49. In addition, the opinion stated that taking control of private land to build the barrier injured private property owners, and thus violated Articles 46 and 52 of the Hague Regulations of 1907 and of Article 53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention.
* The illegality of the barrier under international human rights law. In this context, the court stated unequivocally, and contrary to the position held by Israel, that international human rights law applies in its entirety in occupied territory, along with humanitarian law. The court ruled that the separation barrier violates rights set forth in conventions to which Israel is party. The court mentioned the rights to freedom of movement and the right against invasion of privacy of home and family, which are enshrined in Articles 12 and 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the right to work, to an adequate standard of living, health, and education, which are enshrined in Articles 6, 11, 12, and 13 of the International covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural rights.
the people who voted for this garbage need a kick in the crotch
America should just stop funding the UN period. We don't need any other reason besides all these foreign interventions, and the wealth distribution schemes, which most money goes into some dictators pocket anyway. The UN is quite the group of dictators and cronies themselves. They failed at stopping their initial stated purpose, nuke proliferation, as if anyway. They also failed at peace since the Korean War; so why keep funding them? If individuals wish to support abortion in the Middle East, Africa and China, let them do it with their own money.
What irony. The U.S. government should indeed stop funding the U.N. But it should also stop funding Israel as well. Not part of their plan I suspect.
More foreign entanglements.
To be elected or reelected, candidates must avoid saying anything considered unfavorable by Israeli or Jewish organizations. That's because our entire electoral system has been corrupted by Netanyahu's Israel, AIPAC, Israel Firsters and ingenious distribution enormous amounts of Jewish money. This criminal treachery and treason must be stopped and the perpetrators jailed. The Government of the United States must again serve American interests, not Israel's relentless pursuit of invulnerability, territorial conquest and apartheid supremacist empire in, and beyond, the Mideast.
Israel kills Palestinian families and children with American attack jets and white phosphorous. Israel jails Palestinians and Palestinian children cruelly and indefinitely. Israel defines itself as a Jewish state and, by supremacist apartheid behavior, validates that definition. We Americans resist believing, or even comprehending, the horror. This June 18, 2012 excerpt from Times of India will facilitate understanding the Jewish state's behavior.
RABBI OVADIA Rabbi Ovadia Yosef is the former Chief Rabbi of Israel and the spiritual leader of the Shas party, Israels “kingmaker” party. In a sermon given on Saturday on laws concerning what non-Jews are permitted to do on Shabbat, Yosef said: "Goyim [non-Jews] were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel. Why are gentiles needed? They will work, they will plow, they will reap. We will sit like an effendi and eat." According to Yosef, death has "no dominion" over non-Jews in Israel. "With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one’s donkey would die, they’d lose their money. This is his servant… That’s why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew.”
MENACHEM BEGIN "Our race is the Master Race. We Jews are divine gods on this planet. We are as different from the inferior races as they are from insects. In fact, compared to our race, other races are beasts and animals, cattle at best. Other races are considered as human excrement. Our destiny is to rule over the inferior races. Our earthly kingdom will be ruled by our leader with a rod of iron. The masses will lick our feet and serve us as our slaves."