{"id":287172,"date":"2016-12-25T03:06:56","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-republicans-slam-obama-for-not-shielding-israeli-in-unsc-vote\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T03:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T02:06:56","slug":"us-republicans-slam-obama-for-not-shielding-israeli-in-unsc-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-republicans-slam-obama-for-not-shielding-israeli-in-unsc-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"US Republicans slam Obama for not shielding Israeli in UNSC vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#2B2C30\">US President Barack Obama is facing major backlash mostly\u00a0from Republican lawmakers and politicians over Washington\u2019s rare refusal to veto a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution censuring the Israeli regime on persisting settlement expansions.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:rgb(43, 44, 48)\">The strong reaction of US Republicans following Friday\u2019s passage on a Security Council resolution &#8212; slamming Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory in a 14-0 vote as a \u201cflagrant violation\u201d of international law and demanding a halt to \u201call Israeli settlement activities&#8221; \u2013 lacked any legal reasoning other than the premise that Washington must always and unconditionally side with the Zionist regime in defiance of the entire international community.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#2B2C30\">\u201cToday&#8217;s passage of an ill-conceived resolution on Israeli settlements marks another shameful chapter in the bizarre anti-Israel history of the United Nations,\u201d said Arizona Senator John McCain in a statement. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#2B2C30\">The fervently pro-Israel senator&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/25\/503329\/US-Obama-administration-United-Nations-Security-Council-veto-power-Israeli-regime-veto-power\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Barack Obama is facing major backlash mostly\u00a0from Republican lawmakers and politicians over Washington\u2019s rare refusal to veto a UN Security Council (UNSC) resolution censuring the Israeli regime on persisting settlement expansions. The strong reaction of US Republicans following Friday\u2019s passage on a Security Council resolution &#8212; slamming Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-287172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}