{"id":288860,"date":"2017-01-06T06:45:57","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T05:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-house-votes-to-disavow-un-resolution-against-israel\/"},"modified":"2017-01-06T06:45:57","modified_gmt":"2017-01-06T05:45:57","slug":"us-house-votes-to-disavow-un-resolution-against-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-house-votes-to-disavow-un-resolution-against-israel\/","title":{"rendered":"US House votes to disavow UN resolution against Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan measure to disapprove a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned Israeli settlements on\u00a0the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The motion, passed 342 to 80 on Thursday, described last month\u2019s resolution as \u201can obstacle to Israel-Palestinian peace,\u201d and was a rebuke to President Barack Obama\u2019s approach to the US-Israel relationship.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that the Obama administration\u2019s decision to abstain \u2013 and not veto \u2013 the Security Council resolution \u201cundermined\u201d Washington\u2019s decades-long policy of\u00a0shielding Israel at the UN.<\/p>\n<p>The congressional measure\u00a0stated\u00a0that the US \u201cshould oppose and veto future United Nations Security Council resolutions that seek to impose solutions to final status issues, or are one-sided and anti-Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to a nearly unanimous Republican caucus, the measure received support from more than 100 Democrats, a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/06\/505006\/US-House-votes-to-disavow-UNs-Israel-rebuke\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US House of Representatives has overwhelmingly passed a bipartisan measure to disapprove a United Nations Security Council resolution that condemned Israeli settlements on\u00a0the occupied Palestinian territories. The motion, passed 342 to 80 on Thursday, described last month\u2019s resolution as \u201can obstacle to Israel-Palestinian peace,\u201d and was a rebuke to President Barack Obama\u2019s approach to [&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-288860","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\/288860","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=288860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}