Obama: Was this the diplomacy equivalent of removing the "W" keys? - Granite Grok

Obama: Was this the diplomacy equivalent of removing the “W” keys?

jackalsFamously the Clinton White House staffers removed the “W” keys from their keyboards just before George W Bush took over the Oval Office.  This was the F. U. moment of a group of youngsters that were in an ideological pique of years that belied their status.  Not only was it a sophomoric stunt but it cost a lot of OUR money to replace them all (but again, Progressives have no notion that it is other peoples’ money they spend).

This proves that Obama NEVER had Israel’s back – he just waited until the end to put the knife in.

This US abstention on a UN Resolution that will put Israel into the cross-hairs of international law is his worst “Present” vote ever as this will have severe ramifications for Israel – but if fits for this Moral-Narcissist-in-Chief.  Voting “Present” while a State Senator in Illinois but this truly and seriously threw Israel under a fleet of buses simply because of his personal feud with Israel Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.  Just as Obama said to Russia that after his next election he’d have more flexibility, we now see his “nice” mask slipping off his face and his true grudge face becoming visible.

The resolution, summarized by Ann Althouse, is this:

To give you an idea of how appalling this resolution is, it declares that any Jew who lives in the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem, the Jewish quarter, inhabited for 1,000 years, is illegal, breaking international law, essentially an outlaw, can be hauled into the international criminal court and international courts in Europe, which is one of the consequences. The Jewish quarter has been populated by Jews for 1,000 years.

In the war of Independence in 1948, the Arabs invaded Israel to wipe it out. They did not succeed, but the Arab Legion succeeded in conquering the Jewish quarter. They expelled all the Jews. They destroyed all the synagogues and all the homes. For 19 years, no Jew could go there. The Israelis got it back in the Six-Day War. Now it’s declared that this is not Jewish territory. Remember, it’s called ‘the Jewish quarter,’ but it belongs to other people. And any Jew who lives there is an outlaw. That’s exactly what we supported. The resolution is explicit in saying settlements in the occupied territories and in east Jerusalem.”

The big point here – it is not OCCUPIED – the Arabs lost it as a consequence when they made the decision to attack Israel.  It isn’t theirs anymore so, by definition, they can’t claim it as Occupied.  Obama is supporting their lies.

The back story is that Obama’s staff worked with New Zealand (hey, who knew that they were rabidly anti-Semitic as Obama??) to wordsmith it and then Egypt was to introduce it – which it promptly withdrew it when Donald Trump tweeted out his ire.  Then put it back in and it was a unanimous vote against Israel.  As Charles Krauthammer said, the US has now joined the jackels at the UN.

As Roger Simon noted:

It’s no surprise that Trump is now calling for reduced U.S. financial support for the UN. Did Obama want that? Did he really care about that either, or was that all too just for show? So Obama moves off stage as he has always been—the Moral Narcissist in Chief. His entire presidency has been about him, and on a global stage. And they say Trump is the narcissist.

And Trump is NOT the only one saying “No bucks for you!”; US Senator Lindsey Gramnesty has put the UN into his financial gunsight (remember, the US provides the bulk of the UN’s budget year after year):

“A top U.S. senator who oversees the United States’ UN funding threatened on Friday to pull financial support for the international body if it moves forward with a vote on a resolution over Israeli settlements, and for any nation that backs the measure.

Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who oversees the Senate subcommittee that controls such assistance, said in a statement: ‘If the United Nations moves forward with the ill-conceived resolution, I will work to form a bipartisan coalition to suspend or significantly reduce United States assistance to the United Nations.'”

I hope he now follows through.  I do know that THIS Senator will – former Army Ranger, Tom Cotton:

This resolution hurts the prospects for a secure and just peace by targeting Israel for building homes in Jerusalem, its own capital, while not specifically addressing Palestinian incitement of and financial support for terrorism. That’s why President Obama vetoed a similar, but less anti-Israel resolution in 2011-back when he still needed pro-Israel voters for his reelection. Moreover, as a Security Council resolution with the imprimatur of the United States, this resolution surpasses even the infamous “Zionism is Racism” General Assembly resolution in its irrational obsession with the Jewish state.

The United States provides considerable financial assistance to the United Nations and Security Council members. The UN and nations supporting this resolution have now imperiled all forms of U.S. assistance. I look forward to working with President-elect Trump and members of both parties in Congress to decide what the consequences for this action will be.

Obama has thrown a lot of Israel supporters within the Democrat Party under the bus (like newly minted US Senate Minority Leader Chuckie Schumer).  And it is clear that a lot of Jewish Democrat supporters have quickly become rather uncomfortable.  Hey, who thought Obama could actually do MORE harm to his Party than he already has these eight years?  All the Republicans are going to have to do is to rerun this over and over and the booing that ensued when a pro-Israel plank was kept in the Democrat platform – solid political gold as most Americans still support one of our most solid allies – the only real democratic State in the Middle East.

Remember this:

I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.”

– Barack Hussein Obama, P 261 -“Audacity of Hope.”

Shot – Donald Trump upon hearing the news:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/812390964740427776

Speaking of Donald Trump – a warning for him about the swamp that is the US State Department (who have no idea anymore that they are our employees):  “For Donald Trump, meet your State Department. This is what State’s permanent bureaucrats believe, this is what they want, and Barack Obama delivered it to them.”

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