T. Belman. Who’s he kidding? First of all, there are no binding resolutions prohibiting the US moving its embassy to Jerusalem, including Res 181. Second of all, Trump will come out swinging. He will prevent the PA from paying terrorists and will probably prevent them from inciting violence. He can do this by withholding financial support. Trump has also indicated that he will cut off funds to UNCHR should it continue to single out Israel for condemnation. There is no end to the damage he can do to the PA.
PA’s UN envoy says the PA will act at the UN if President-elect follows through on his promise to move the American Embassy to Jerusalem.
If President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his promise to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, the Palestinian Arabs will “make life miserable” for the United States at the United Nations, the Palestinian Authority’s ambassador to the United Nations is threatening.
“If people attack us by moving the embassy to Jerusalem, which is a violation of Security Council resolutions, it is a violation of resolution 181 of the UN general assembly that was drafted by the U.S. … it means they are showing belligerency towards us … If they do that nobody should blame us for unleashing all of the weapons that we have in the UN to defend ourselves and we have a lot of weapons in the UN,” the envoy, Riyad Mansour, said on Friday, according to Haaretz.
Mansour said that the Palestinian Authority response to a move of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem could not be a Security Council resolution because the United States would veto it.
“Maybe I can’t have resolutions in the Security Council but I can make their lives miserable every day with precipitating a veto on my admission as a member state. Italy in 1949 received 3 consecutive vetoes on its admission to the UN from the Soviet Union. These are the kind of things that I can do,” he threatened.
“It is illegal to defy Security Council resolutions that the U.S. is party to. The unilateral action by Israel annexing East Jerusalem is illegal and it is null and void. If the U.S. administration wants to defy international law they are doing something illegal. I hope they will do nothing,” said Mansour.
“Many candidates gave the same election promise but didn’t implement it because what you do when you are campaigning is one thing but when you have to deal with the legal thing it is something else,” he added.
Throughout his election campaign, Trump promised to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv in recognition of Jerusalem being Israel’s capital city.
Trump also originally stated he would be “neutral and unpredictable” when it comes to the Israel-PA conflict.
He later clarified his comments and said that while he would be happy to broker a peace deal, “in order for an agreement to happen, the Palestinians need to show interest. It’s a little difficult to reach an agreement when the other side doesn’t really want to talk to you.”
On Saturday, he addressed the issue again, telling The Wall Street Journal he would do his best to bring an end to “the war that never ends.”
“That’s the ultimate deal,” Trump said. “As a deal maker, I’d like to do…the deal that can’t be made. And do it for humanity’s sake.” However, he also said that he would not force an agreement on Israel, a sovereign state, and told Obama not to use the lame-duck period to act with regard to Israel in ways with which he, Trump, does not agree.
@ Birdalone:
“PA stops paying terrorists, Hamas outraged”
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220238
They are scared.
When Reagan was elected, Iran released the hostages.
When George W. Bush went to war in Iraq and Afghanistan, Quadafiy gave up his weapons of mass destruction and terrorism and cooperated. Iran suspended it’s nuclear program.
Bin Laden said he attacked us on 9/11 because he thought we would cower and retreat on the basis of Clinton’s retreat from Somalia, and Reagan’s retreat from Lebanon.
I’m sure President Clinton’s apology tour didn’t help matters.
The moral?
Just from a practical standpoint:
Never apologize. Never retreat.
“Millions For Defense. Not One Penny For Tribute!”
Yes Ted, BUT, BLM and other Soros-funded ‘protests’ are already doing a lot of damage in the USA.
BLM admits their role model is the PLO.
Who do you think organized all the current ‘Notmypresident’ protests?
In addition to the idiocy of UNESCO on the Temple Mount, look at the MetMuseum exhibit on Jerusalem – Islamists seem to have already brainwashed the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC – rumor has it everything in the gift shop for the Jerusalem exhibit is Made in Palestine.
Perhaps Saudi Arabia should first turn Gaza into a big Oil refinery.