The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has summoned the US ambassador over UNSC’s rebuke of Israel. The US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro met with Netanyahu late on Sunday after the envoy was summoned in a sign of Tel Aviv’s fury over the US abstention from a vote at the United Nations Security Council against illegal Israeli settlements.
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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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The previous article focused on the definition of an international order, globalization, geopolitical theories and how this has changed the notion with which a nation exercises control over a foreign country. In this second part I intend to examine the various geopolitical theories, their translations into modern concepts, and practical actions that the United States have undertaken in recent decades to aspire to global dominance.
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