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ISRAEL SEEKS SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL, WILL SAMANTHA POWER HELP, HINDER OR IDLY WATCH EVENTS UNFOLD……?

 

I wouldn’t trust Samantha Power as far as I could spit.

Great question, one could read Samantha Power’s decision to act or not to act in a number of different ways. She might pull a parliamentary trick and make her appeal for Israel’s seat at the Security Council look like actual support, knowing all along that its doomed from the start. A win win for her and the radical Dems.

will power help israel to gain security council seat 7.10.2013

The UN General Assembly is divided into 5 regional groups – but Muslim countries refused to allow Israel to be a member in the appropriate geographic group Photo Credit: Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Late last week the Jewish State publicly announced that it plans to run for one of the ten rotating positions on the Security Council of the United Nations for the 2019-2020 year. Virtually everyone agrees it will be a tough battle for Israel to land a seat on the Security Council, but this year Israel has a special weapon it has not had in the past: US power. Or, more accurately, U. S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.

This past July, when Power appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for her vetting in advance of being appointed U.S. Ambassador to the U.N, Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) bluntly asked Power whether she would assist Israel if the Jewish State seeks to fill one of the ten rotating seats on the U.N. Security Council.

“Absolutely, sir,” Power responded. “The Security Council seat is one that has eluded Israel, despite its many contributions across the years, and I commit to you wholeheartedly to go on offense, as well as playing defense on the legitimation of Israel, and we’ll make every effort to secure greater integration of Israeli public servants in the U.N. system.”

Now for a little background information: in order to win one of those ten rotating seats, two-thirds of the 193 member states of the U.N. General Assembly must vote to support a country’s bid.  In the 64 plus years during which Israel has been a member state of the U.N., it has never been approved for a seat on the U.N.’s Security Council.

Israel never has, but every one of its’ neighbors has had a seat on the Security Council several times: Egypt, four times; Jordan, twice; Syria, three times and Lebanon, twice.  Even Iraq and Iran have been voted on to the Security Council. But not Israel.

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One Response

  1. The muslim nations are scared to death to think Israel would have any rights at all in the UN. I fervently pray Israel gets a seat on this council!

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