{"id":289897,"date":"2017-01-13T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-bill-proposes-to-defund-un-over-israel-settlement-vote\/"},"modified":"2017-01-13T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T10:53:05","slug":"senate-bill-proposes-to-defund-un-over-israel-settlement-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/senate-bill-proposes-to-defund-un-over-israel-settlement-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate bill proposes to defund UN over Israel settlement vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Two US senators have introduced legislation to withdraw funding for the United Nations over last month\u2019s resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction on the occupied Palestinian territories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bill, called the\u00a0<span style=\"color:rgb(0, 0, 0)\">Safeguard Israel Act, was\u00a0<\/span>presented Thursday by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, and would cut off funding for the UN until the US president confirms the repeal of the Security Council Resolution 2334 that called Israel\u2019s settlements a violation of international law.<\/p>\n<p>The US, which has vetoed similar measures in the past, abstained from the vote, allowing the resolution to be adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Sen. Cruz said President Barack Obama &#8220;betrayed decades of robust bipartisan American support for Israel&#8221; by having\u00a0his administration abstain from voting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Congress must hold the UN\u00a0accountable and use our leverage as its largest contributor to push for the repeal of this resolution, making it clear to the world that Congress stands&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/01\/13\/506009\/Senate-bill-aims-to-defund-UN-over-Israel-vote\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two US senators have introduced legislation to withdraw funding for the United Nations over last month\u2019s resolution condemning Israeli settlement construction on the occupied Palestinian territories. The bill, called the\u00a0Safeguard Israel Act, was\u00a0presented Thursday by Republican senators Lindsey Graham and Ted Cruz, and would cut off funding for the UN until the US president confirms [&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-289897","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\/289897","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=289897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}