At an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday, the US Ambassador to the United Nations
...where theory meets practice and practice loses...
Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...said President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
knew his decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital would raise "questions and concerns," but that he took it to advance peace between Israel and the Paleostinians.
"I understand the concerns that members have in calling this session," Haley said. "Change is hard."
Washington’s move left it isolated as one after another fellow UN Security Council members ‐ Russia, La Belle France, the UK, China, Egypt, Jordan and a host of others ‐ condemned the announcement.
The debate unfolded at a largely symbolic emergency meeting of the council ‐ no vote on a resolution was planned, as the US has veto power ‐ two days after Trump reversed two decades of US policy on the holy city.
Haley said anyone who used Washington’s actions as a pretext for violence was "only showing" they were not partners for peace.
At the meeting, UN coordinator for the Middle East grinding of the peace processor Nickolay Mladenov warned that if the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict isn’t resolved, "it risks being engulfed in the vortex of religious radicalism throughout the Middle East."
Mladenov also reiterated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s words that the Israeli-Paleostinian conflict must be resolved through direct negotiations and that "there is no Plan B to the two-state solution."
| Given that President Trump talked to a great many parties about this ahead of time, and was not persuaded by their arguments then, all this seems very much to be posturing for the folks back home. |