Israel Cuts $6M in U.N. Funding Over Anti-Israel Resolution

[TexasTowelie]

Source: Reuters

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Israel said on Friday it would cut $6 million in funding to the United Nations in 2017 in protest against a U.N. Security Council resolution that demanded an end to Israeli building on land liberated in the Six-Day War.

The United States abstained from the Dec. 23 vote, allowing the 15-member Security Council to adopt the resolution with 14 votes in favor. Israel and President-elect Donald Trump had called for Washington to wield its veto.

Israel’s mission to the United Nations said funding would be cut to U.N. bodies it described as “anti-Israel,” including the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People and the Division for Palestinian Rights.

“It is unreasonable for Israel to fund bodies that operate against us at the U.N.,” Israeli U.N. Ambassador Danny Danon said in a statement. “The U.N. must end the absurd reality in which it supports bodies whose sole intent is to spread incitement and anti-Israel propaganda.”

Read more: http://hamodia.com/2017/01/07/israel-cuts-6m-in-u-n-funding-over-anti-israel-resolution/

[sakabatou]

1. Israel's acting like a child

[Jake Stern]

2. You can almost see Bibi stomping his feet, crossing his arms and saying

"Bu. . bu. . but they always voted for us before!!! No now though. Why mom? Why? Whyyyyyyyyyyy?"

[Hulk]

3. Not a surprise....

Perfect dRumpf response. Stomp your feet and jump on Twitter. I'm sure we'll hear from der fUhrer. Oh pity us....

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. U.S. should cut $6 million from its aid to Israel and give it to the U.N.

Two can play that game.

[JDC]

6. I was thinking the exact thing

We pay that bill anyhow

[Grey Lemercier]

17. Israeli companies have significant control over vast swathes of the global telecom/IT infrastructure

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Verint Inc. (formerly Comverse Infosys, they changed the name after multiple intelligence and financial scandals), and Amdocs Ltd. are the 2 biggest. Amdocs is the world's largest telecom billing company (over 90% of USA telecoms use it), and Verint is worlds largest electronic surveillance company. Both are heavily funded by the Israeli government, both are interwoven with Israeli secret security forces, including having board members from them, and both form the backbone for US intelligence agencies' (FBI, NSA, CIA, etc.) domestic intelligence surveillance technology. The US security services have had tonnes of problems with them over the years, as they have been infiltrated by numerous spies. Israel is the 2nd biggest (after China) purveyor of industrial espionage against American countries

https://fas.org/irp/ops/ci/docs/fecie_fy00.pdf

https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-sees-israel-tight-mideast-ally-spy-threat-132232395.html?ref=gs

http://www.alternet.org/story/130891/breaking_the_taboo_on_israel's_spying_efforts_on_the_united_states

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdocs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comverse_Technology

[cstanleytech]

18. To be honest I never have understood why Israel gets a pat on the back by so many politicians

every time they are caught spying and stealing information from us, it just doesnt seem like a sane response.

[oberliner]

11. Except the US wants to cut aid to the UN also

Graham to propose measure cutting aid to UN

http://thehill.com/policy/international/un-treaties/311752-graham-pledges-to-propose-a-measure-to-cut-us-financial

[Gin]

15. I agree!

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. "Israels mission to the United Nations said" ...

So they haven't pulled out of the UN?

What's Bibi waiting for?

[Blue_Adept]

7. Sympathy for Israel continues to wane as the generations move on

A lot of those in the Gen-X and Millennial side of things simply don't have the connection to the past, right and wrong, to get some of the context. But the context is also shifting as Israel continues to look more like the bad guy than anything else.

Considering how long all of this has been going on and how it's just getting progressively worse, I'm hoping to see less and less support across the board for them. They're their own worst enemies.

[oberliner]

14. Quite the opposite

Americans' Views Toward Israel Remain Firmly Positive (Feb 2016)

http://www.gallup.com/poll/189626/americans-views-toward-israel-remain-firmly-positive.aspx

Percentage sympathizing more with Israelis than Palestinians in the Mideast situation has risen significantly since the 1980s.

[cstanleytech]

19. I'm more of a "A pox upon both of them" because neither seems to really

want peace they just want to destroy the other.

[oberliner]

20. Understandable

Compromise does not seem to be in anyone's vocabulary over there.

[cstanleytech]

21. Possible or the varies leaders dont know what to do because they are in a position

probably where if they say anything like "maybe we should listen and help (insert side)" that they will be killed by one of the varies nutjobs both sides clearly have.

[oberliner]

12. Leeches?

Without US aid, Israel would cease to exist?

[George II]

10. It was probably our money anyway.

[oberliner]

13. It wasn't

Most of the money we give them they are required to spend on American military hardware and equipment.

[treestar]

16. Can't believe they have the gall to demand that the world

support those settlements.

[Grimelle]

22. Oh Daddy U.S

Why have you forsaken me?
Tantrum much.

[Rustyeye77]

23. Time for Israel to tell UN "Goodbye"

IMHO