{"id":287939,"date":"2016-12-31T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republican-lawmakers-plan-to-condemn-un-over-israel-vote\/"},"modified":"2016-12-31T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-31T07:11:07","slug":"republican-lawmakers-plan-to-condemn-un-over-israel-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/republican-lawmakers-plan-to-condemn-un-over-israel-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican lawmakers plan to condemn UN over Israel vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Republican lawmakers in both chambers of the US Congress are launching a motion to formally disapprove the recent United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned &#8220;illegal&#8221; Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The move highlights the Zionist lobby\u2019s powerful influence on Capitol Hill and a reminder of the deep support Israel has in an otherwise sharply divided Congress.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Jerry Moran, a Republican from Kansas, said Friday he will introduce a resolution in the Senate on Tuesday expressing support for Israel and disapproving the UN resolution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last eight years, the Obama administration has made a series of blatantly misguided choices when it comes to working with our strongest ally in the Middle East,\u201d Moran said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Moran said that he is &#8220;committed to working with both Republicans and Democrats to make sure we stand with Israel and that the United Nations cannot be used as a forum to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/12\/31\/504189\/US-Congress-Republicans-Israel-UN\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican lawmakers in both chambers of the US Congress are launching a motion to formally disapprove the recent United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned &#8220;illegal&#8221; Israeli settlements on the occupied Palestinian territories. The move highlights the Zionist lobby\u2019s powerful influence on Capitol Hill and a reminder of the deep support Israel has in an [&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-287939","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\/287939","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=287939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}