{"id":103778,"date":"2017-12-25T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=103778"},"modified":"2017-12-25T12:14:45","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T12:14:45","slug":"friendship-party-for-countries-that-supported-us-in-un-israel-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2017\/12\/friendship-party-for-countries-that-supported-us-in-un-israel-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cFriendship Party\u201d for Countries That Supported US in UN Israel Vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

22 Dec 2017 – <\/em>Though at first glance it sounds straight out of\u00a0The Onion<\/em>,\u00a0Nikki Haley has formally invited the 64 countries who either voted \u2018against\u2019 or abstained (or just didn\u2019t show up) for\u00a0Thursday\u2019s UN General Assembly vote<\/a>\u00a0on the Jerusalem resolution\u00a0to a \u201cfriendship\u201d party.<\/p>\n

Hours after Haley\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0\u201cWe appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the UN,\u201d Voice of America\u2019s UN correspondent\u00a0Margaret Besheer<\/a>\u00a0posted an electronic version of the invitation to twitter, which reads\u00a0\u201dSave the Date: The Honorable Nikki R. Haley, Permanent Representative United States Mission to the United Nations\u00a0invites you to a reception to thank you for your friendship to the United States,\u00a0Wednesday, January 3, 2018 6:00-8:00p.m.<\/p>\n

US Ambassador Nikki Haley invites the 64 countries who voted \u2018no\u2019, abstained or didn\u2019t show up for UNGA Jerusalem resolution to \u201cfriendship\u201d party.<\/p>\n

Naturally our first thought is that it sounds like it\u2019s going to be a pretty sad and deeply awkward party. After all only 9 actually voted with the United States, and 35 were absentions, leaving all the rest as no-shows. So even the majority of the 64 \u201cfriends\u201d on the invitation list were a bit too embarrassed to fully step up for their \u201cfriend\u201d the first time around \u2013 why would they then attend what sounds like a literal pity party for the losing side?<\/p>\n

Perhaps the absentions will quietly show up trying to fit in at the \u201ccool party\u201d for the winning team, wherever that may be.\u00a0Newsweek has likened the invitation for making into the \u2018nice\u2019 column of the White House\u2019s\u00a0\u201cnaughty or nice\u201d list<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And concerning what could very well comprise the \u201cVIP part\u201d of the invitation list \u2013 only Israel, Honduras, Togo, U.S., Palau, Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Nauru, Guatemala voted against the Jerusalem resolution to condemn the US move to recognize the city as the capital of Israel and relocate the American embassy there. Two-thirds of UN member states including Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Spain and Greece voted in favor of the resolution.<\/p>\n

Notably,\u00a0Canada abstained,\u00a0which is sure going to make the \u201cfriendship to the United States\u201d party extra stiff and awkward the moment the Canadian delegation walks through the door.<\/p>\n

And who knows, perhaps a few of those countries that did vote \u2018no\u2019 alongside the US did so because prior to the vote both President Trump and Nikki Haley threatened to cut aid to countries failing to support the controversial US decision\u00a0(well actually many are\u00a0sparsely populated micronations who have long essentially been dependencies of the US government).<\/p>\n

Haley\u2019s\u00a0parting speech after the vote<\/a>\u00a0took on a threatening tone as well, as despite being isolated by virtually the entire international community,\u00a0she\u00a0warned the international body that the U.S. would remember the vote as a betrayal by the U.N., and that the vote would do nothing to affect the Trump administration\u2019s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel\u2019s capital and move its embassy there.<\/p>\n

Haley reminded UN members of the US\u2019 generous contributions to the organization and said that the United States expects its will to be respected in return.\u00a0\u201cWhen we make a generous contributions to the UN, we also have a legitimate expectation that our goodwill is recognized and respected,\u201d\u00a0Haley said, adding that the vote will be \u201cremembered\u201d by the US and \u201cmake a difference on how the Americans look at the UN.\u201d<\/p>\n

And with all that parting drama, regarding Nikki\u2019s upcoming \u201cfriendship\u201d party,\u00a0it would be great to be a fly on the wall for the event\u2026\u00a0or, perhaps it\u2019ll be too awkward even for the flies.<\/p>\n

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22 Dec 2017 – Though at first glance it sounds straight out of The Onion, Nikki Haley has formally invited the 64 countries who either voted \u2018against\u2019 or abstained (or just didn\u2019t show up) for Thursday\u2019s UN General Assembly vote on the Jerusalem resolution to a \u201cfriendship\u201d party. Hours after Haley tweeted \u201cWe appreciate these countries for not falling to the irresponsible ways of the UN.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":99823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}