05-08-2021, 04:18 PM
UN SECURITY COUNCIL ISOLATES THE US ON JERUSALEM
The US had to veto the UN Security Council vote to rebuke the US for moving its embassy to Jerusalem, which would have passed 14-1. All except the US agreed that the embassy's move will make a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine more difficult. Vijay Prashad analyzes the vote
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20749%27%20style=%27color:#000
WATCH LIVE: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTES ON JERUSALEM RESOLUTION
The United Nations is scheduled to vote on a resolution demanding the U.S. rescind its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20769:WA...ution#pop1
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REJECTS TRUMP'S JERUSALEM MOVE
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/ge...06725.html
UN JERUSALEM RESOLUTION: HOW EACH COUNTRY VOTED
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/je...16873.html
PALESTINIANS IN JERUSALEM: UN VOTE 'POINTLESS EXERCISE'
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/pa...44668.html
ERDOGAN: MR TRUMP, TURKEY'S DEMOCRACY IS NOT FOR SALE
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/er...40736.html
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the international community to teach the United States "a good lesson" in an upcoming UN General Assembly vote on Washington's controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Erdogan’s comments come after the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned on Wednesday that she would be "taking names" of the states voting against the decision and pass them to President Donald Trump, who has threatened to cut off aid to the countries in question.
The vote on Thursday is non-binding, but it is expected to pass easily in the 193-member UN body.
"Mr Trump, you cannot buy Turkey's democratic will with your dollars. Our decision is clear," Erdogan said at a cultural awards ceremony in Ankara on Thursday. "I call on the whole world: Don't you dare sell your democratic struggle and your will for petty dollars. "I hope and expect the US won't get the result it expects from there (the UN) and the world will give a very good lesson to the US," Erdogan added.
UN Security Council to weigh resolution on Jerusalem
Trump, on December 6, announced the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, deviating from decades-old policy and the international consensus that the city's status should be resolved through peace talks.
On Tuesday, the US vetoed an Egyptian-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that asked countries not to establish diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
The US, one of the five permanent members of the UN body with veto power, was outnumbered 14 to 1 when it vetoed that resolution.
Ankara tough on US move
Turkey has been highly vocal in criticising the US administration over its Jerusalem decision, leading calls at last week's summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Istanbul last week to officially recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
Taha Ozhan, a ruling party MP and chair of the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission, told Al Jazeera earlier in the week that Ankara's efforts against Trump's move put pressure on regional countries to speak up.
"Turkey has triggered this, and regional actors are reacting," he said.
WATCH: Turkey plays major role against US Jerusalem move (2:28)
"A possible vote in the General Assembly will remind us of the scenes we saw a few years ago in the vote there for Palestine to be a non-member observer state, in which only the US, Israel and few more countries voted against the move, dominated by the rest of the members."
In the 2012 vote at the General Assembly, Palestine was given non-member observer status with 138 votes cast for the resolution and nine votes against it.
Thousands of Turkish protesters marched in various parts of the country through the weekend, carrying anti-US and anti-Israel signs and shouting slogans against the two countries.
PALESTINE TO REMAIN TOP PRIORITY FOR MUSLIMS: IRAN
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/21...Quds-Trump
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of a resolution that calls on the US to withdraw its controversial recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israeli "capital."
At the General Assembly session, nine countries voted in support of the Trump administration's policy. Thirty-five other nations abstained from voting.
Bahrain maintains close ties with the US and hosts two American military bases.
The US had to veto the UN Security Council vote to rebuke the US for moving its embassy to Jerusalem, which would have passed 14-1. All except the US agreed that the embassy's move will make a peace agreement between Israel and Palestine more difficult. Vijay Prashad analyzes the vote
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=20749%27%20style=%27color:#000
WATCH LIVE: UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY VOTES ON JERUSALEM RESOLUTION
The United Nations is scheduled to vote on a resolution demanding the U.S. rescind its decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital
http://therealnews.com/t2/story:20769:WA...ution#pop1
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY REJECTS TRUMP'S JERUSALEM MOVE
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/ge...06725.html
UN JERUSALEM RESOLUTION: HOW EACH COUNTRY VOTED
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/je...16873.html
PALESTINIANS IN JERUSALEM: UN VOTE 'POINTLESS EXERCISE'
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/pa...44668.html
ERDOGAN: MR TRUMP, TURKEY'S DEMOCRACY IS NOT FOR SALE
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/er...40736.html
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called on the international community to teach the United States "a good lesson" in an upcoming UN General Assembly vote on Washington's controversial decision to recognise Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
Erdogan’s comments come after the US Ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, warned on Wednesday that she would be "taking names" of the states voting against the decision and pass them to President Donald Trump, who has threatened to cut off aid to the countries in question.
The vote on Thursday is non-binding, but it is expected to pass easily in the 193-member UN body.
"Mr Trump, you cannot buy Turkey's democratic will with your dollars. Our decision is clear," Erdogan said at a cultural awards ceremony in Ankara on Thursday. "I call on the whole world: Don't you dare sell your democratic struggle and your will for petty dollars. "I hope and expect the US won't get the result it expects from there (the UN) and the world will give a very good lesson to the US," Erdogan added.
UN Security Council to weigh resolution on Jerusalem
Trump, on December 6, announced the US decision to recognise Jerusalem as Israel's capital, deviating from decades-old policy and the international consensus that the city's status should be resolved through peace talks.
On Tuesday, the US vetoed an Egyptian-sponsored UN Security Council resolution that asked countries not to establish diplomatic missions in Jerusalem.
The US, one of the five permanent members of the UN body with veto power, was outnumbered 14 to 1 when it vetoed that resolution.
Ankara tough on US move
Turkey has been highly vocal in criticising the US administration over its Jerusalem decision, leading calls at last week's summit of the Organisation of Islamic Conference in Istanbul last week to officially recognise East Jerusalem as the capital of Palestine.
Taha Ozhan, a ruling party MP and chair of the Turkish parliament's foreign affairs commission, told Al Jazeera earlier in the week that Ankara's efforts against Trump's move put pressure on regional countries to speak up.
"Turkey has triggered this, and regional actors are reacting," he said.
WATCH: Turkey plays major role against US Jerusalem move (2:28)
"A possible vote in the General Assembly will remind us of the scenes we saw a few years ago in the vote there for Palestine to be a non-member observer state, in which only the US, Israel and few more countries voted against the move, dominated by the rest of the members."
In the 2012 vote at the General Assembly, Palestine was given non-member observer status with 138 votes cast for the resolution and nine votes against it.
Thousands of Turkish protesters marched in various parts of the country through the weekend, carrying anti-US and anti-Israel signs and shouting slogans against the two countries.
PALESTINE TO REMAIN TOP PRIORITY FOR MUSLIMS: IRAN
http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2017/12/21...Quds-Trump
Palestine's freedom from the clutches of Israeli occupation remains the Islamic world's highest priority, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman says.
Bahram Qassemi made the remarks early on Friday, a day after Bahrain's Foreign Minister Sheikh Khalid Bin Ahmed Al Khalifah tried to downplay as a “side issue” US President Donald Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as Israel's capital.
"It is regrettable to see an Arab and Islamic country call a seven-decade-old scar on the Islamic world's wounded body a 'side issue' and so fatuously fail to realize the simplest of world affairs, thus embarrassing itself and its people... with such mean and baseless statements," he wrote in a statement.
"Despite all complex plots, manufactured crises and fictitious threats propagated by the US-Zionism axis, Palestine still is and will remain the Islamic world's number one priority until it is liberated, and no one... can distract Muslims from this serious issue," he added.
The United Nations General Assembly has voted in favor of a resolution that calls on the US to withdraw its controversial recognition of Jerusalem al-Quds as Israeli "capital."
While the Bahraini minister did not specifically mention the Jerusalem al-Quds issue, his statement came at the same time as Trump’s threats before a UN General Assembly vote about his decision on Thursday.
The American head of state said Washington would withdraw US aid to countries that were going to vote against the move.
The threat, however, failed to push back an overwhelming majority of the world body's members as 128 countries voted to adopt a resolution that calls on Trump to rescind the decision.
At the General Assembly session, nine countries voted in support of the Trump administration's policy. Thirty-five other nations abstained from voting.
Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote in a tweet that the vote amounted to a "resounding global NO" to Trump's "thuggish intimidation."
Bahrain maintains close ties with the US and hosts two American military bases.