A US senator has threatened to introduce a measure in Congress to pull US funding for the United Nations until the Security Council repeals a resolution it passed condemning Israeli settlement construction as illegal.
“It’s that important to me,” Sen. Lindsey Graham, a member of the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee, told CNN on Saturday. “This is a road we haven’t gone down before. If you can’t show the American people that international organizations can be more responsible, there is going to be a break. And I am going to lead that break.”
“I will do everything in my power, working with the new administration and Congress, to leave no doubt about where America stands when it comes to the peace process and where we stand with the only true democracy in the Middle East, Israel,” the South Carolina Republican added.
In a major rebuke to Israel, the UN Security Council passed a resolution in a 14-0 vote on Friday demanding Israel “immediately…