{"id":19965,"date":"2015-03-22T10:53:02","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T14:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=19965"},"modified":"2015-03-22T12:11:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T16:11:58","slug":"u-s-should-rethink-u-n-funding-if-palestinian-resolution-approved-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2015\/03\/22\/u-s-should-rethink-u-n-funding-if-palestinian-resolution-approved-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. should rethink U.N. funding if Palestinian resolution approved: senator"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reuters<\/em> has the story U.S. should rethink U.N. funding if Palestinian resolution approved: senator<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Congress should reconsider funding for the United Nations if the Security Council approves a resolution on Palestinian statehood, Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now here is something that Senator McCain and I can agree on.\u00a0 The U.S. should consider increasing its funding to the U.N. were it able to pass a reasonable resolution on Palestinian statehood.<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may actually have done us a favor by finally giving us a reason to stop blocking the Palestinians from getting U.N. recognition as a state.\u00a0 If Netanyahu and hawkish American Senators think the way to get cooperation from a foreign country is to impose tough sanctions, maybe it is time to try this “successful” strategy on Israel.<\/p>\n

I suppose Reuters<\/em> own article Iran rejects ‘bullying’ as West stresses unity in nuclear talks<\/a> can be used to show how successful this can be.<\/p>\n

Iran’s top leader voiced mistrust on Saturday of U.S. efforts to reach a nuclear deal, even as Washington and its allies spoke of real progress and urged Tehran to take “difficult decisions”.<\/p>\n

With just 10 days remaining until an end-of-March deadline for a framework agreement, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced U.S. “bullying” in the negotiations and repeated Tehran’s denial that it was seeking to develop a nuclear weapon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It seems that we have come to a consensus that bullying in the schoolyard needs to be stopped.\u00a0 What do we teach our kids when we show them that we believe in bullying in foreign affairs?<\/p>\n

Here is an excerpt from the book Ethics, Liberalism and Realism in International Relations<\/a> that shows how some “elite” diplomats think.<\/p>\n

\"Book<\/a><\/p>\n

To me, this shows why “elite” diplomats are very dangerous.\u00a0 When you have disdain for “ordinary” morals, what constraints do you have at all? I fear that President Obama, Secretary John Kerry, and Secretary Hillary Clinton have all been infected with Henry Kissinger’s theories of diplomacy.<\/p>\n

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Google translate couldn’t handle this, but a regular Google search could.<\/p>\n

noun: Weltanschauung<\/a>; plural noun: Weltanschauungen<\/p>\n

a particular philosophy or view of life; the worldview of an individual or group.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters has the story U.S. should rethink U.N. funding if Palestinian resolution approved: senator. The U.S. Congress should reconsider funding for the United Nations if the Security Council approves a resolution on Palestinian statehood, Republican Senator John McCain said on Sunday. Now here is something that Senator McCain and I can agree on.\u00a0 The U.S. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19965","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19965"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19965\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}