Obama Rolls Out Plan to Use UN to Circumvent Congress on
Israel, Iran
by Ben Shapiro19 Mar 2015
In the aftermath of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu’s big electoral win on Tuesday, the Obama administration reportedly
seeks to use the United Nations as a club
with which to beat those recalcitrant Jews into line.
According to Foreign Policy, the Obama administration
may stop blocking United Nations efforts to “call for the resumption of
political talks to conclude a final peace settlement” between Israelis and
Palestinians. The fact that the United Nations wants to force Israel, a fully
functioning diverse democracy, into negotiating with a terrorist regime led by
the Palestinian Authority and Hamas demonstrates the moral bankruptcy of the
institution. But more importantly, it demonstrates that President Obama’s big
power grab is just beginning.
When Obama took office, some on the conservative right
worried deeply about the possibility of Obama utilizing the United Nations in order
to cram down internationalist leftism on Americans. Books and articles emerged
talking up the threat of Agenda 21, a non-binding plan from the United Nations
designed to create “sustainable development” – code for dramatic regulation of
anything that could impact the environment.
Many conservatives became concerned with UN Resolution 16/18,
shepherded through the institution by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
and designed to combat “the stereotyping, negative profiling and stigmatization
of people based on their religion.” The resolution represented a predicate for
an “international blasphemy law,” as liberal law professor Jonathan Turley
wrote.
Finally, conservatives fretted over the UN Arms Trade Treaty
signed by the Obama administration. As National Rifle Association spokeswoman
Catherine Mortensen said, “We are
worried about an end-run around Congress. Barack Obama or
a future anti-gun president could use ATT and international norms compliance to
rationalize enacting gun control policies through executive actions, especially
in the import and export realms.” Secretary of State Kerry blathered at the
time, “Make no mistake, we would never think about supporting a treaty that is
inconsistent with the rights of American citizens to be able to exercise their
guaranteed rights under our constitution.”
Obviously, no domestic legislation has yet enacted this
international regime of dangerous gibberish. But the danger of Obama utilizing
international agreements to defeat domestic opposition seems to be growing.
Today, Obama floated the notion of going to the UN to build
an international sanctions regime against our ally Israel. As Politico reported:
More provocative to Israel would be any softening of Obama’s
opposition to Palestinian efforts to join the International Criminal Court,
which the Palestinian Authority will formally join on April 1. Under a law
passed by Congress, any Palestinian bid to bring war crimes charges against
Israel at the court will automatically sever America’s $400 million in annual
aid to the Palestinian Authority, although some experts suggested Obama could
find indirect ways to continue some funding — even if only to prevent a
dangerous collapse of the Palestinian governing body.
Meanwhile, Obama moves forward with his plans to
unilaterally destroy the sanctions regime against Iran. Even as the Obama
administration insists that the Iranian regime has broken nothing in the
interim nuclear agreement (against all available evidence),
Obama plans to sign a new executive agreement with Iran – and then go to the
United Nations Security Council to relieve Iran of those sanctions, effectively
destroying the possibility of sanctions by isolating Congress in pursuing them.
If the European Union, China, Russia and the rest refuse to sanction
Iran, nothing Congress does will make much of a difference, and Obama knows it.
At the same time, Obama likely is preparing another series
of executive actions designed to implement United Nations climate change agreements. Typically, an executive agreement
that has domestic impact must be accompanied by a piece of enabling legislation
passed by Congress. Obama doesn’t care about such legalism. In September, he
announced before the United Nations that he would tell all federal agencies to
start including “climate resilience”
into international development programs and investments. Today, Obama signed an executive order
that would look to slash carbon emissions 40 percent compared to 2008 levels by
2025. As US News reported, “The president has made robust use of the Environmental
Protection Agency, Energy Department and
Interior Department to sidestep Republican opposition in Congress and act on
global warming, increasing vehicle fuel economy standards, making cities more
resilient to the effects of climate change and proposing cuts to carbon
emissions from power plants.”
Obama’s move to browbeat Israel at the United Nations is
part of a pattern: not just a pattern of dramatically anti-Israel activity, but
a pattern of cutting America’s legislative body out of the loop in favor of
monarchic action in collaboration with the World Community™. And that should
scare everyone, not just advocates for the safety and security of the Jewish
State.
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Nations
Samantha
Power is the United Nations U.S.
ambassador for the Barack Obama
administration, married to Cass R.
Sunstein, was Barack Obama’s aide,
a director at the International Rescue
Committee, and a board member for the International
Crisis Group.
Note: Timothy F.
Geithner is a director at the International
Rescue Committee, was an overseer at the International Rescue Committee, a researcher at Kissinger Associates, Inc., and the treasury
secretary for the Barack Obama
administration.
David
Rothkopf was a managing director for Kissinger
Associates, Inc., and is the CEO & editor-at-large for Foreign Policy.
Henry A. Kissinger
is the founder of Kissinger Associates,
Inc., an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
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A. Annan is an overseer at the International
Rescue Committee, a board member for the International Crisis Group, was the secretary general for the United Nations, and a trustee at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
(think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the International Rescue
Committee, the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace (think tank), the Center for American
Progress, the Climate Reality Project, and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, was a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress, and is a board member for the International Crisis Group.
Carol M. Browner
is a senior fellow, director at the Center
for American Progress, was a director at the Climate Reality Project, an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),
and the energy czar for the Barack Obama administration.
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Naim was a board member for the International
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Program for the Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace (think tank).
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a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), an
honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
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Dodd in 1982
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Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)
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at the Brookings Institution (think tank), was a distinguished fellow at
the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the ambassador to China for the Barack Obama administration.
Cass R. Sunstein
is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
married to Samantha Power.
Saban
Center for Middle East Policy is a policy center at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
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(think tank), and a friend of Shimon
Peres.
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Peres is a friend of Haim Saban,
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Netanyahu is the prime minister for Israel.
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LLP is the lobby firm for Israel.
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was a litigator for Sidley Austin LLP,
a member of the Weather Underground,
and is married to William C. Ayers.
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was a member of the Weather Underground,
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Challenge, a director at the Woods
Fund of Chicago, is married to Bernadine
Dohrn, and Mayor Richard M. Daley’s adviser.
Barack
Obama was a chairman for the Chicago
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Austin LLP, is married to Michelle
Obama, and the president for the Barack
Obama administration.
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Obama is married to Barack Obama,
a friend of Valerie B. Jarrett, was
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Club of Chicago, William C. Ayers
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brother, was the Chicago (IL) mayor,
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of staff.
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Club of Chicago, Mayor Richard M.
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Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and was Mayor
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