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Barack Backhands Bibi

Barack Backhands Bibi

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

Did the community organizer from Harvard Law just deliver some personal payback to the IDF commando? So it would seem.

By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu, President Obama “failed to protect Israel in this gang-up at the UN, and colluded with it.”

Sen. Graham Threatens To Pull UN Funding After Israeli Settlement Vote

US senator Lindsey Graham has threatened to introduce a measure in Congress to pull funding for the United Nations unless the Security Council repeals a resolution it passed last week condemning Israeli settlement construction as illegal. “It’s that important to me,” Graham, a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told CNN. Just spoke with the PM of Israel Benjamin @Netanyahu. I let him know many Members of Congress will push back hard against this UN outrage.

President Duterte Wants To ‘Burn Down’ UN

Philippines President Duterte says he will “burn down” the United Nations headquarters in New York during his next visit to America. It comes in response to mounting international criticism over his bloody War on Drugs’ policy. Duterte has boasted of personally killing suspects. RT.com reports: “You go and file a complaint in the United Nations, I will burn down the United Nations if you want,” Duterte said, as quoted by the New York Times. “I will burn it down if I go to America,” he added, while speaking at an army base in the country’s southern city of Zamboanga.

An Angry Israel Summons Foreign Ambassadors, Accuses Obama Of Conspiring Against It

Israel's anger mounted for a second day after Friday's United Nations snub, when on Sunday it summoned ambassadors of countries from the UN Security Council for a Christmas Day reprimand for their support of a resolution condemning Israel’s illegal settlements on Palestinian lands. The vote passed in the 15-member Security Council on Friday because the United States broke with its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield, as a permanent member of the forum, its veto power, instead abstaining.

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