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Update:
The President explicitly said what Ambassador Haley implied:
“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,” Trump told reporters at the White House.
Original Story:
United States Ambassador the United Nations Nikki Haley made a bold statement to the world today on Twitter. As the U.N. prepares to vote in the general assembly on a resolution condemning any move of an embassy to Jerusalem as President Trump announced last week, Haley warned that we “will be taking names.”
“At the UN we’re always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt 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.”
At the UN we're always asked to do more & give more. So, when we make a decision, at the will of the American ppl, abt 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. pic.twitter.com/ZsusB8Hqt4
— Archive: Ambassador Nikki Haley (@AmbNikkiHaley) December 19, 2017
Privately, she sent a letter to U.N. member states reiterating her public post and declaring the importance of recognizing sovereignty. Portions of the letter also reached Twitter.
“To be clear, we are not asking for other countries [to] move their embassies to Jerusalem, though we think it would be appropriate. We are simply asking you acknowledge the historical friendship, partnership, and support we have extended and respect our decision about our embassy.
“The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those who voted against us. We will take note of every vote on this issue,” Haley wrote.
My Take
Haley and the Trump administration are turning this into a two-front attack on the U.N.’s approach to sovereignty. It isn’t just about Israel’s right to name their own capital. It’s also about America’s right to recognize the capital that we see fit. Declarations by the U.N. cannot be allowed to supersede decisions made between two sovereign nations just because others don’t like the decision.
This isolates both countries against a world that is increasingly anti-Israel and pro-Palestine.
Nations who have supported Israel in the past are having a difficult time supporter them and the United States today. The incessant push for a two-state solution has put many world leaders in a corner. If they accept Jerusalem as wholly part of Israel indefinitely, they run the risk of angering their Muslim populations. In today’s world where anti-Israel Muslim extremism turns to violence and terrorism, most countries are too afraid to acknowledge obvious truths.
They won’t acknowledge that a state of Palestine is unnecessary with so many Muslim-majority countries in the region and around the world.
They won’t accept that a nation the size of New Jersey cannot be divided further to the point that its enemies of the past that surround it could more easily invade if the current defensible positions are taken away.
They pretend like Jerusalem hasn’t been the capital of of the Jewish nation for over three thousand years, instead pointing to much more recent occupations as precedent.
The only thing that can maintain peace in this small portion of the chaotic region is having Israel in control of the land and the city. Splitting it with a two-state solution will mark the beginning of the end of peace. Most nations are running with the narrative that Jerusalem is a bargaining chip rather than the capital city of a sovereign nation. They say taking that chip off the table makes a peace deal impossible.
It’s time to start taking names. The U.N. and many member nations lean on the U.S. for so much. Why would we continue to be the bank, police, and punching bag for the world when they won’t even ‘allow’ us to acknowledge the sovereignty of one of our closest allies?
If Jerusalem was such a great bargaining chip, why has there been no lasting peace agreement? The U.S. didn’t recognize it as the capital for fifty years. The only things keeping peace from the land are the cowardly nations who are succumbing to fear instead of doing what’s right. Thankfully, the United States is no longer in that category.
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… and the US STILL has no plans to move the Embassy. Trump signed the waiver AGAIN.
After Trump & Haley “take names”, what will they do with the names ? Will Trump prevail upon our allies in GB & Europe to boycott those nations ? (Both GB & most of Europe now hates Trump and do not want him anywhere near their shores).
Will Trump prevail up on Israel to further provoke Europe and her trading partners and support Trump’s popularity ? (Given that Trump has ALREADY stabbed Israel in the back over the Embassy and whether the West Wall is even part of Israel). Will Trump ask S. Korea to send military forces (at a time when they need all their forces in their Trump-Twitter-provoked face-off with N. Korea ?
Perhaps Trump will ask his good friends the Russians for help ? (The Democrats could have a field-day with Trump-Russia connections over that). Can Trump ask Mexico and Canada to lend military / economic assistance after threatening (and trying to start) a trade war with those two countries ?
Will Trump send our new-and-improved transgender-equipped military to “deal with” the Muslims ?
Just what WILL Trump do once he’s “taken names” at the UN ? Start more wars ? Send nasty tweets ? Call names ?
The world has now figured out that Trump is all bluster and no follow-through – the classical paper-tiger / school-yard bully – if they say “boo” threateningly enough, Trump will cower under his desk (or behind the skirts of his daughter).
On a separate topic, you posted here a while back that you wanted the NOQ Report to actually follow up on news reports that have fallen out of the mainstream.
In that regard, would you please do a follow-up piece on Trump’s disdain for the Border Patrol and (especially) the status of the complaints listed in the BP-union-sponsored website: https://jicreport.com ?
It was reported on 22 November that Trump personally called National ICE Council President Chris Crane and promised to schedule a meeting to discuss the corruption and complaints of the Border Patrol under Trump’s administration. The website has not been updated since. Did the meeting take place ? Was it ever scheduled ? Did the phone call take place ? — or was Trump’s phone call only a sham to try to placate the ICE Union and prevent more bad press ?