Days after the UN Security Council voted to condemn Israel over its illegal settlement construction in the occupied Palestinian territories, US President-elect Donald Trump has denounced the United Nations as a club for people to “have a good time.”
In a Monday afternoon tweet, Trump said that the UN has “such great potential” but it has become “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”
The incoming Republican president has already implied he will bring change to the global body once he is in the White House. He has warned, “As to the UN, things will be different after Jan. 20th,” referring to the day he takes office.
On Friday, the Security Council passed Resolution 2334, which demands an immediate end to illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories like East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The resolution was adopted after the US refused to veto it, reversing its longstanding policy of…