US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley sees Friday’s emergency meeting on President Trump’s Jerusalem declaration as vindication of decades of US claims that the UN is inherently biased against Israel.
Yet while Israel was the topic, at least tangentially, the real focus of the meeting was on Trump himself, and what pretty much everyone else in the Security Council agreed was a reckless unilateral declaration that Jerusalem, a contested city under partial military occupation, is the capital of Israel.
Trump’s declaration has been roundly criticized worldwide, with Israel seemingly the only nation to endorse it. Even there, the declaration sparked massive protests among the Palestinian population under Israeli occupation, who see Trump’s move as effectively ending the peace process and certainly ending the pretense that the United States can be an impartial arbiter.
The UN members broadly agreed that the US move undermines the peace process, with Egypt warning the move would ignite anger across the Muslim and Arab world, and Jordan adding that there needs to be an assurance that freedom of religious practice is upheld within Jerusalem.
Haley insisted Trump’s declaration was just “common sense,” because Israel sees Jerusalem as their own capital and has all their government buildings there. It’s clearly not so “common,” however, since literally nobody in the world recognizes Jerusalem in that way, and while a number of nations have consulates in Jerusalem, embassies are exclusively in Tel Aviv.
Comet Haley whizzes by the earth, and sees a bias against Israel in UN. What comet
missed is the entire international community condemning Israel. But wait, SHEis the one speaking on the behalf of international community — nobody else! Go back you little insignificant people — I will clean up UN from this bias.
What is it with these militant female US Ambassadors to the UN ? First Samantha Powers now this warmonger.
Don’t forget Madeleine Abright, Susan Rice and earlier, Jeane Kirkpatrick. The men are no better-John Bolton is a case in point! The USA mocks the UN and wants a rep who shows this.
Haley is a Pam Geller wannabe.
All of whom are wholly owned, bought and paid for with OUR extorted tax compliments our No.1 Welfare Queen…!!!!!!!! Thanks a Billions…..
Its how patriarchy plays the feminist card in its favour.
What is this UN thingy you speak of? Some exotic species of non-flowering plant? We Americans don’t recognize it as being relevant to anything. {sarcasm}
Except when it was “the world against Saddam”, then we used it as justification for invasion and occupation.
The world community was against Milosevic too ,The butcher of the Balkans .At the same time perhaps another even larger world community thought Milosevic was totally innocent . Lately Milosevic and even Saddam have been exonorated considerably . The fake news always adds demonizing words to effectively color our thinking but have very little to do with truth .Fake news should be thrown out of the court of human reasoning because fake new does not tell the truth and nothing but the truth .
Unfortunately none of these countries is taking any meaningful action at home. They need to start cancelling visa’s of these Israeli politicians and labeling them criminals by International Law. Support the BDS movement and prohibit airlines from travel to or from Israel.
Israel is controlled politically by settler activists at the moment but start to cripple the economy and other more moderate politicians will take over.
575,000 Iraqi children died from sanctions.
BDS is immoral.
BDS is voluntary and not backed by armed force. Just say no to ‘Made in Israel’.
Did not Putin say Jerusalem was the capital of Israel back in April .. And now Trump says the very same thing in December .It seems it is not just the Muslims but all of Europe and 1/2 of the USA is upset ..
A good part of Putin’s base is Russian Orthodox Christian; there is no way any believing Christian can deny their holy capital.
The Russian intervention in Syria was sold not only as a necessary secular geopolitical defense of Russia, but as exercising the traditional Russian Orthodox Christian position of being the protector of Christians in the Middle East.
Beneath the secular layer there’s a religious war going on, between Christian and Islamic sects as well as between Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
A faith whose lifeblood is deception;
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/db0_onegod.htm
http://www.badnewsaboutchristianity.com/m01_religion.htm
Great stuff, thanks.
The carefully orchestrated destruction/disappearance of so many archaeological artifacts in North Africa and the Middle East by the IS is very possibly an indicator things to come, though.
Fixating on the artifacts of the Abramic tradition alone to debunk its antisocial elements is dangerous, as there could arrive a time in history when the original sources are all destroyed. Skeptical rationalist arguments based on using scripture and other historical artifacts would then become moot, and in the present only encourages the process.
They can’t destroy basic rhetorical reasoning bound to core social morals… well they can kill off as many bearers as dare speak out, but the system could always reconstitute given the slightest chance because they are as if woven into the DNA/RNA readily awaiting expression.
Having reasoning skills bound to not lying, not cheating, not stealing, not bullying and not murdering; as articles of faith, these skills and values are harder for cohesive social groups to do without and remain high functioning.
If I remember right the Orthodox Church leased a lot of land to Israel for 99 years a few years ago .I’ll bet this land was around Jerusalem too . You are right it does not seem to bother Russia to protect Christians They even seem willing to make a special effort to protect Christians . That is something that the United States has refused to do . to such a degree we might say Christian America is actually anti Christian ..
There are competing visions of Christianity in America.
Allowing the destruction of the Middle East’s Christians is easily explained as End Times fulfillment; not something U.S. Christians so-believing, sitting safe and snug at home, would necessarily care to actually stop if they thought doing so would delay the Second Coming.
Putin said W Jerusalem for Israel, with E Jerusalem for Palestine.
This is a possible future decision , according to the background discussions. Not the same as Trumpism.
The putative tormented have become exact copies of their putative tormenters.
For both is a horrifying reckoning.
Not exact copies; they place different weight on core elements.
Orthodox Christianity is more leery of gaming redemption because of Emperor Constantine’s cynical example, while Protestantism embraces gaming the cycle of forgiveness completely as Christianity’s primary incentive.
Is anyone really surprised? The Israeli invasion and conquest of Canaan was a significant change in the history of religion and war.
Trump’s actions are a nothingburger-yet-not. Secularly, it means little; Tel Aviv has always been the fig leaf that makes everyone feel better about doing nothing about Israel. Aesthetically, its everything to American and indeed Western Judeo-Christian global imperialism.
Eric Zuesse wrote a great article some time ago about how Western Imperialism is driven by the Roman legal doctrine of ‘terra nova’ (alien peoples on alien lands have no rights to that land) and the Israeli ‘Promised land mythos’ (alien lands must be taken in the name of God). Once you begin to understand that, then the extent of the malaise becomes apparent.
Where before warmongers asked for the blessings of a deity before engaging in war, the Israelis inverted that to assume wars of aggression are a command of the deity and standing article of faith.
It probably wasn’t their idea, but the ancient Israelis executed the argument from ignorance fallacy-as-religious-meme so effectively (or at least survived its inevitable effects) even the Romans couldn’t withstand it once it was repackaged as Christianity.
One cannot prove a negative, only act on faith. Would God really want this? To proclaim taking God’s name in vain is a sin then doing so is a typical con pattern. Establish trust and legitimacy – then abuse it. In this case, it can’t be caught out; only reason can identify the point of fragmentation in moral logic.
Failure under the old meme inevitably meant cultural-spiritual invalidation and death; conquerors were conquered and their cultures recycled into history. Failure under the new meme means keep on trying because cultural-spiritual invalidation means nothing; a cheap kind of cultural immortality that allows for reinvention.
The Judeo-Christians only identified their deity as jealous and vindictive. By leaving quantifications open to interpretation, they could port in the latest interpretations of god. To be ‘loving’ for example, can have many dysfunctional and unloving expressions. as perhaps the Egyptians found out as their Horus mythos played out over time.
Merry Christmas indeed. Quite a present for Trump’s religious base. A facepalm for his secular supporters, but hey, seculars should be used to taking their lumps of sulfurous coal.
No, Jerusalem was not chosen by “the Jews” as their capital. It was chosen by the Israeli government as its capital. There’s a difference.
Yes there is a difference . And I think Jerusalem alone should have most of the say so on what goes on in Jerusalem . It really is not some thing other people should be so concerned with because it is none of their business
When the UN backs whatever Washington is advocating then Washington trumpets that they have the moral backing of the UN. When the UN sides against Washington the Washington shrugs, and threatens to cut off UN funding.
See how this works>>
Actually, I am not against moving the embassy to Jerusalem, ……but only under one condition, …..that the embassy simultaneously serves as the duel embassy for Israel and a newly formed Palestinian state on the west bank and Gaza. ….and not until then!!!! Peace will never be possible when people like Trump and Netanyahu are in charge.
Sharing a building when they can’t even share the land?
Its Americas Building not Israels, America tells Israel that they have to both share it with the Palestinians and allow the Palestinians unfettered access!
Can’t give Palestinians unfettered access . They explode to often to live safely with them . Kind of like allowing drunks to drive . It is just to damn dangerous .
PALESTINE has ~ ALWAYS ~ been home to, and belonged to, PALESTINIANS.
SEMITIC PALESTINIANS. Rothschild-Israel (est. 1948 AD) in PALESTINE, has NEVER been home to the TRUE, ORIGINAL JERUSALEM !!!
Edinburgh, Scotland currently sits on the site that was
(Old-Testament-era) ancient JERUSALEM. It was Emperor Constantine I,
who was responsible for the deception. Rothschild-Israel (est. 1948) IS
~ NOT ~ AND NEVER HAS BEEN ~ HOME TO THE ORIGINAL JERUSALEM. Study HISTORY. (Read THE GREAT
DECEPTION: SYRIA, BRITAIN AND THE ROMAN CONSPIRACY, by Comyns
Beaumont. Also, read THE BALTIC ORIGINS OF HOMER’S EPIC TALES, by
Felice Vinci. Also, read ATLANTIS FROM A GEOGRAPHER’S PERSPECTIVE, by
Ulf Erlingsson.)
Just like the soldier’s mother at the parade: “Look, everyone is out of step but my Johnnie”.
Nikki Haley may even win the highly contested prize for worst UN ambassador from the USA, despite very strong competition.
Samantha Powers would be a tough act to beat.
The unintended consequences of Trump’s decision are bad for the US’ imperial plans – which is good, IMHO. Many of ‘our’ allies and protectorates hate US now.
You are right, John. But let’s not forget Arabs/Muslims/Christians. If we are going to say one religion, we have to say the other. Many Arab Christians.