Donald Trump Quotes
When has the UN done any good. All they do is damage.
He was responding to the United Nations Security Counsil resolution calling on Israel to stop the building of settlemetns in the "occupied" territories. Normally such resolutions such as these were vetoed bu the United States, but this time it was not and Secretary of State John Kerry made a major speech urging the Israels not to keep building settlements which in his view inflamed the Palestinians and made the prospects for a peace less likely. The Israelis argued that the particualar areas--Jerusalem, Judea and Summaria were consecrated by God for the Jewish people who have inhabited the area for over 3000 years, and while they do not insist on sovreignty over the Judea and Summaria, from which Jews had been ethnically cleased, they do demand that the Jewish People who want to should be allowed to fulfill God's mandate and settle in their traditional territories. The traditional view of the United States on the settlement issue is that what God had done thousands of years cannot be allowed to override the obligagtion of israel and teh Palestinians to negotate the status of the territories that became an obligation when the Oslo Accords were signed in the recent past. Trump was very sympathetic to the Israeli position and was one of the many Americans who ha little or no respect for the United Nations.
Donald Trump, Public Statement, December 28, 2016
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Olmert was speaking for a significant minority of Israelis who believe that God consecrated the land of Palestine to the Jewish People and all other peoples who controlled it did so by conquest. So their logic is for those who do not believe in the Bible and give no modern credence to God’s will, the Jews have no taken back the land by conquest which is the way the Palestinians and all of the many peoples had controlled that land. For believers, the Jews have the highest right; for non-believers, their right of conquest is no weaker than any of the others.
She was instrumental in forming the United Nations, but one of its weaknesses was and has been since that it was very difficult and cumbersome for the UN to mount a military force to defend a country or region against aggression. The situation has not improved much on that score since 1948. Israel had just been created by the United Nations, but over a dozen Arab State armies attacked the fledgling Jewish nation. The Israelis, against all odds, not only defended their territory but were able to seize key Arab military and strategic areas. Mrs. Roosevelt, and most of the world, assumed that under the circumstances, the Arabs would negotiate a peace treaty with Israel to regain their land. However, the Arab nations would not recognize the State of Israel and would not even negotiate with the Israelis. ER and most of the world was wrong. Instead, the Arab nations’ strategy was to have a cease fire and build their military strength to attack later in greater force. When that also failed and Israel won the subsequent wars, the Arabs then turned to Terrorism. 60 years later, the Israelis and the Arabs were further apart in many ways than in 1948.
The UN peacekeepers have had a sorry record of protecting people from aggression, attacks and even genocide. In Sarajevo they stood by as the Serbs rounded up 7,000 male Muslims and marched them off to be executed right past the United Nations forces. And the UN was unable to stop the genocide in Rwanda. In the Middle East on several occasions, Arab armies have walked right through the United Nations peacekeepers and attacked Israeli civilians. So no one, lease of all the Israelis have any confidence that the United Nations can provide security in Jerusalem or anywhere else in the Middle East. The Israeli position was that when the Jordanians controlled the city, they did not allow Jews to their sacred places to pray or have access to the city. The UN could not prevent violence at all. No one else is willing, but since 1967 the Israelis have maintained the peace and security of the city while allowing the Arabs and other groups access to their places of worship.
Donald John Trump is an American media personality and businessman who served as the 45th and 47th president of the United States.
