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“Lindsey Graham Warns UN: Congress is a Player on Foreign Policy”
by Newsmax
December 25th, 2016

Sen. Lindsey Graham Saturday again blasted the U.N. Security Council vote condemning Israeli settlements and reiterated his pledge to "lead the charge to withhold funding until they repeal this resolution."

"It is a decades-old policy by the United States to make sure the parties negotiate on the ground in the Mideast, not in the U.N. Security Council," the South Carolina Republican told Dana Bash on CNN.

Graham, who chairs a Senate subcommittee that oversees funding for the U.N., told Bash that he talked with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after Friday's vote.

"He told me when it comes to the U.N., the gloves are off," the senator said. "I told him, 'That's how I will respond in kind.'"

The United Nations receives 22 percent of its annual budget from the United States — and "the U.N. needs to be put on notice that Congress is a player when it comes to American foreign policy," Graham said.

"I don't believe most Americans want to fund an organization that can't see the difference between a democracy, Israel, and a terrorist organization, Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority."

The Obama administration abstained in the 14-0 vote Friday, dismissing President-elect Donald Trump's demand on Thursday to veto the resolution.

Trump also came under attack for involving himself in the affairs of a sitting president.

The president-elect tweeted Friday that "things will be different after Jan. 20th."

With the abstention cast by U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, "President Obama is just not giving the finger to [Netanyahu], he is putting the entire Jewish state, the state of Israel, at risk by having the international community calling it an outlaw, taking a one-sided view of the dispute," Graham said.

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