US 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...
on Wednesday cautioned he could slash funding to countries that support a UN General Assembly resolution on Thursday that seeks to annul the United States’ recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.
"They take hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions of dollars, and then they vote against us. Well, we’re watching those votes. Let them vote against us. We’ll save a lot. We don’t care," Trump said at the White House, according to Rooters.
On Tuesday, 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..., Washington’s UN envoy, warned countries that she would report back to Trump with the names of those who supported a draft resolution rejecting the US recognition.
"The president will be watching this vote carefully and has requested I report back on those countries who voted against us," she wrote to UN envoys. "We will take note of each and every vote on this issue."
The UN General Assembly will hold an emergency session on Thursday to vote on the proposed measure, after the US vetoed a similar resolution for the Security Council.
No country has veto power in the 193-nation General Assembly, contrary to the council, where the United States, along with Britannia, China, La Belle France and Russia, can block any resolution.
Paleostinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Malki on Wednesday accused Washington of "threatening" member countries of the UN General Assembly over the vote. Malki said American officials were "committing another mistake when they have distributed this famous letter trying to threaten countries, (and) threaten their sovereign decision to choose how to vote."
He spoke at a presser with his
"This is really a new definition of world order in politics and it seems that the American administration... are putting their stamp on a new political reality that many countries will reject," Malki said.
...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire....
and Yemen
...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of. Except for a tiny handfull of Jews everthing there is very Islamic...requested the urgent meeting on behalf of the Arab group of countries and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). The two countries circulated a draft resolution on Tuesday that mirrors the vetoed measure, reaffirming that any decision on the status of Jerusalem has no legal effect and must be rescinded.
Malki said the UN session would show "how many countries will opt to vote with their conscience."
"They will vote for justice and they will vote in favor of that resolution that was presented by both Yemen and Turkey on behalf of the Arab group and OIC," he said.
After vetoing the measure in the UN Security Council on Monday, Haley noted that the US has given more than $5 billion to the Paleostinians since 1994, more than any other country and she said: "The United States has never been more committed to peace in the Middle East."