Tantruming Netanyahu Summons U.S. Ambassador Over UN Vote
teleSUR | December 25, 2016
The United States hardly stood up to Israel in the latest meeting of the U.N. Security Council, where a historic, but largely symbolic, motion was passed condemning the apartheid state’s illegal settlement-building.
But Israel’s seething anger towards its ally, for what it perceives as betrayal, has prompted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to summon the U.S. ambassador to Israel on Christmas day.
While the envoys of 10 other nations were also summoned by the Israeli foreign ministry, harsher words were reserved for Washington after Friday’s vote.
“Over decades American administrations and Israeli governments disagreed about settlements, but we agreed that the security council was not the place to resolve this issue,” Netanyahu said, as reported by Reuters.
“We knew that going there would make negotiations harder and drive peace farther away. As I told John Kerry on Thursday, ‘Friends don’t take friends to the Security Council’,” he added.
Friday’s resolution was passed only because the United States broke its long-standing approach of diplomatically shielding Israel and did not wield its veto power, abstaining instead.
“According to our information, we have no doubt the Obama administration initiated it (the resolution), stood behind it, coordinated the wording and demanded it be passed,” Netanyahu told the cabinet.
The other envoys summoned included 10 of the 14 countries that voted for the resolution with embassies in Israel — the U.K., China, Russia, France, Egypt, Japan, Uruguay, Spain, Ukraine and New Zealand.
Local media also reported Sunday that Netanyahu ordered his ministers not to travel to the 14 countries that approved the U.N. resolution, forbidding them from even meeting their counterparts from those countries.
On Friday Israel also announced that it would recall its ambassadors to New Zealand and Senegal, cancel a planned state visit by the Senegalese foreign minister, as well as cut off all aid to the impoverished West African country.
While many have criticized the motion for being both toothless and too late, Israel’s retaliation suggests it may help further delegitimize the country’s system of apartheid, and could provide material support for Palestine’s complaint to the international criminal court about the settlements.
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In retrospect it can be seen that the 1967 war, the Six Days War, was the turning point in the relationship between the Zionist state of Israel and the Jews of the world (the majority of Jews who prefer to live not in Israel but as citizens of many other nations). Until the 1967 war, and with the exception of a minority of who were politically active, most non-Israeli Jews did not have – how can I put it? – a great empathy with Zionism’s child. Israel was there and, in the sub-consciousness, a refuge of last resort; but the Jewish nationalism it represented had not generated the overtly enthusiastic support of the Jews of the world. The Jews of Israel were in their chosen place and the Jews of the world were in their chosen places. There was not, so to speak, a great feeling of togetherness. At a point David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founding father and first prime minister, was so disillusioned by the indifference of world Jewry that he went public with his criticism – not enough Jews were coming to live in Israel.
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Bibi could have blamed Russia.
Does Bibi’s narrative help cement the legacy: “Obama, the anti-Semite”–in the minds of the gullible?
Will Trump come to the rescue of apartheid Israel–to the praise of Christian zionists (useful idiots), neocons and others addicted to war?
Bibi is a “refuse to lose” dangerous guy with his finger on the button of an arsenal with extermination level event capability. To Bibi, missing out on complete domination is tantamount to losing.
Or, is Bibi losing it as he doesn’t get it that “win-lose” in the end loses.
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Quite frankly, Nutjobyahu’s “Dummy Spit” and tantrum shows just how much contempt he has for the USA, who, give Israel over US$3 BILLION every year(soon to be increased as well) as well as fighting Israel’s wars in the Middle East.
And the USA just accepts what ever this Parasite dishes out to them?
Has the USA no self respect when it comes to Israel?
When is the USA going to kick their ASS and put Israel in its place?
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In late news Netanyahu has called New Zealand’s move in the UN Security Council, an “Act of War”. I don’t think he’s actually stupid enough to go to war, but, I wouldn’t mind betting that there is a high possibility of a “Terrorist” attack in New Zealand in the near future……….
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Israel’s five Dolphin-class submarines seem capable of a “Samson option”. Even if sunk, radiation release from these poses an extinction level event.
Israel is not beyond contaminating the entire planet with nuclear material. Study Jim Stone’s materials about Fukushima
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