Am I going to have to listen about how the Jews are going rush to the Republicans in the next elections for the next year only to find out that they voted 94% for Biden instead of the usual 96%?
I think I've seen this movie before with blacks and with hispanics. Maybe Part 3 will be better but I don't think so.
Over 60% of orthodox Jews already vote Republican, but secular Jews who swapped Judaism for Liberalism, they would rather be skinned alive and quartered by Islamofascists, than vote for the GOP.
That is sadly true. They say belief in a higher power is required for our mental health. So, if you drop Christianity, Judiasm, etc, your mind needs to fill the vacuum. That vacuum is liberalism, a false hateful religion, not unlike Islam that has devout muslims cursing the jews and christians 17 times a day in their 5 daily prayers. Jews tend to assimilate so, as they drop their beliefs, they often adopt liberalism. The same for Christians moving away from God. IMHO, liberalism may very well be a biological reaction to godlessness. Would explain a lot!
Even though I look like you, think like you and like the same things you like, I sided with those who hate you in order to weaken your power, increase my own and make me safer.
But now my new allies have turned on me because I look like you, think like you and like the same things you like.
Democrats see Muslims as major allies in their war against Western Civilization. That's why Democrats are willing to close their eyes to Islamic homophobia, for them LGBT is just another tool to rip the fabric of Western society.
Nah... simpler than that. They simply put them in the oppressed/victim column. They can't think beyond the oppressed/oppressor. These are the same idiots who think blacks cannot be racist.
In that case, why don't Democrats attack China for enslaving Uighur people? Perhaps because China is not part of the West that should be destroyed. Same went for Christian Blacks of South Sudan who were sold as slaves by Arab Muslims for the long time, while western liberals stood by and did nothing.
Great question. Actually, they might. But China has done a good job screaming victimhood. Regarding Christians in Sudan, Egypt, and everywhere Muslims exist, it would appear Christians, like Jews, are in the oppressor category. FYI, that includes all the Christians that fled from what is now Gaza and the West bank!
Funny thing, the dems tried to attract Asians (from India, Korea, China) by claiming them victims but gave up since they could not defend the racism they apply to their kids who are being denied admission to colleges across the US. The asians appear far more immune (smarter) than jews in this regard.
No one should ever accuse the Jews of being good at politics. Since the first Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-70, they have proven themselves inept more often than not.
The Jews in America vote for Democrats at very high percentages. Those same liberal Jews, and Democrats, advocate for the open border policies that have flooded the US and Europe with Jew-hating Middle Eastern-Arab-Muslim-Pro-Palestinian immigrants, and NOW that those same immigrants/illegal aliens are chanting "kill the Jews" in the streets, I'm NOW supposed to care?
Why should I?
They (those same Jews and Democrats) didn't care when we (everyone else) objected to unfettered immigration and illegal alien invasions for a whole litany of reasons, especially including un-vetted millions from all those "war torn middle eastern countries"...
But NOW that those same people are making the Jews feel uncomfortable, and the Democrats embarrassed, I'm supposed to care about their feelings?
Looks like just-deserts to me.'
Perhaps "their" suffering and embarrassment, will open some eyes, but if it doesn't, then I say to them "sit down, shut-up, and suffer in silence!", or am I remembering their past message to us incorrectly? For all the years we screamed about illegal aliens, un-fettered and un-vetted immigration, and were called "Islamophobes", "racists", and "xenophobes" for our efforts.... Well, enjoy your imported Jew haters, radical Muslims, pro-Palestinian protestors, terrorists, etc., because you earned every one of them!
that was pretty much what I would have said if you hadn't said it first.
It is funny, both laugh wise and peculiar wise, that jewish people always bring up the holocaust as some really bad thing that should never be forgotten or repeated, a poor oppressed people targeted by Big Government, military, force, etc.
Then explain Schumer, a fuckin scumbag cocksucker [hat tip Gordon Gekko] of incalculable evil, in the same league as Soros and Meathead. This pious little jewish man, always hunched over the lectern one moment, the next moment applauding that the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get back at you if you say mean things about them. Soros isn't the only one who ran not walked to rat out fellow jews to the Nazis; Schumer rubbed his hands with glee at the prospect of Big Government taking out his political opponent, that is when he wasn't busy protecting democracy by calling out Justices by name for making rulings with which he disagreed; they're going to reap the whirlwind.
Schumer (and the liberal jewish people who vote for him and every other Dem) are Gas Chamber Afficianados; they have no philosophical opposition to gas chambers and genocide as long as they are the ones dropping in the tablets.
What is playing out is what Bongino has said for years, that the Left will eventually cannibalize itself. It was all fine -- as you wrote -- when the common enemy of liberal jews and third world detritus was western civilization and capitalism, but now that some new aggrieved group (especially a brown one!) are urging worse than mean tweets to be visited upon jewish people.... liberal jews are on the menu, kind of like how conservatives and GOP were on the menu when jewish people were leading the charge of open borders and tolerance.
So yeah, I have a hard time mustering any sympathy. And beyond that, this new war is a bunch of bullshit just like Ukraine is a bunch of bullshit; I am not sure what the levers are behind the Hamas offensive, but as Wyattaustere on insta wrote about the Ukraine conflict, 'the deep state is willing to start WWIII in order to hide its criminality in Ukraine.'
We're being played, so go ahead and start hurling nukes; better to be vaporized than to live in the WEF Police State they have in store for us.
After being "public enemy #1" for years, I'll be damned if I'm going to "clique up" with ANYONE other than me and mine. My only sympathy is with US, everyone else can get fucked! "They" didn't stand-up with me, so they can now suffer in solitude; But they will never enlist my help, or sympathy.
As a jew, it is extremely odd to me too. Such hypocracy. But then, there are the blacks who get shit on by the dems but vote 96% dem. And then there are the 50% of white folks. It appears this lefty BS fools sooooo many people. And we all pay for it. 😓
But you can't really blame them for our own undoing. They helped usher us off the cliff but we were the ones sprinting to jump off it in the first place.
American Jews have used their inordinate wealth, power, influence and media control to open our borders to the numberless hordes of the third world. And now it looks like our demographics have changed so much that's it's blowing back badly on them.
It seems that the root of diaspora Jewry's hatred of white America is that stuffy WASPs wouldn't let them in to their country clubs through the first half of the 20th century. But now they're going to have much, much more to worry about in the "new" America they helped birth. They've helped turn what was once a promised land of peace and opportunity for them and so many others into a literal hellscape where pogroms might be in their future in locales with large concentrations of Muslims.
They might yearn for the good old days of supermajority white America.
Well, as a conservative jew, I do not think you can blame all Jews as a group but I do agree their high rates of adoption of leftist ways is terrible. Likely because (1) they are more represented in academia and (2) more likely to live in cities which trend left. Regarding power, even in the highest ranks they are the minority with some exceptions - as they discovered with the dems not so hidden support for Iran.
In any event, many jews and their fellow academics lack common sense. In academia that includes Whites, Blacks, Arabs, Persians, everyone. On the flip side, the religious jews are mostly conservative. As to jews hating whites, I have not experienced that. In fact jewish stupidity is to "love" too much -- even those who want to kill them. As I said, not a lot of common sense. 🤷♂️
Not all Jews agree on the proper use and abuse of the goyim. Zionists will plug their noses and cozy up to us for the sake of Greater Israel, while their secular cousins will place themselves at risk of harm if only to dilute and demoralize us. The golem shuffle is the most delicate of dances.
Thank you for information on the civil liberty crisis gripping here and abroad. It may be helpful that in order to become a U.S. Congress person, the person actually takes and passes a U.S. civics class, (or two…)have to pass the constitution test, and be required to take refresher classes. Mike Johnson is correct (2006 essay) in aligning with our founding fathers—who based many decisions on God-thought principles. When persons start “going after” religion or spirituality, the ignorant’s ignorance really shines through. Worse-our governmental hallowed halls are used to diss the US. Unconstitutional.
You can't help stupid. The Jewish vote is locked to Democrats who love to play their constituents off one another. The Jews let themselves get slaughtered in WWII and did not fight back in the initial confrontation. American Jews will follow suit and be slaughtered without a fight. Israel is full of Jews who know what oppression yields, DEATH. The Democratic Party is still the party of Jim Crow, they just use their segregation tactics in a different form and have locked up the Black vote. Jews will be no different.
Liberal Jews consider Israel an embarrassment. As long as Likud, the orthodox parties, and other conservative parties rule Israel, the Left in America will consider the Jewish State to be a failed experiment that should be dissolved in a sea of Islamic people. That appears to be the Left's preferred method for destroying their enemies. In Israel, the desired path for the Left is for the Israeli Left to rule a sea of inferior people using their illegal control of the Supreme Court and bureaucracies. Democracy has failed in their eyes. Socialist rule is their only constant goal. All other goals are transitory and subservient to that primary goal.
Pretty sad when a man like James Michael ("Mike") Johnson - a Constitutional lawyer is trashed daily in the news. The United States of America is sinking quickly. Why are the Jews being attacked? Some think it's jealousy. Some think it's part of a Divine plan to bring them back into Godliness. They are the chosen of God. Chosen to be the people from which the Messiah was predicted to be delivered. Not that they were any more loved than any others - "God so loved the world." But they have a role to play in world history - they weren't chosen by merit. In fact, God seems to be extremely tough on them. 40 years wandering in the wilderness with Moses, then the attack of the serpents, attacked by many tribes, enslaved by Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans - can't forget what happened in Nazi Germany either. Yet they still survive. Their traditions survive. Back in the land that was promised to them. II Chronicles 7:14 says - "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
A discussion of Israeli settlements in Palestine can be found in the "Mueller Report" from the Russia investigation:
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Volume I of II
B. Post-Election and Transition-Period Contacts .......................................................... 144
7. Contacts With and Through Michael T. Flynn ................................................... 167
a. United Nations Vote on Israeli Settlements ................................................... 167
a. United Nations Vote on Israeli Settlements
On December 21, 2016, Egypt submitted a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling on Israel to cease settlement activities in Palestinian territory. 1208 The Security Council, which includes Russia, was scheduled to vote on the resolution the following day. 1209 There was speculation in the media that the Obama Administration would not oppose the resolution. 1210
1208 Karen DeYoung, How the US. Came to Abstain on a UN Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements, Washington Post (Dec. 28, 2016).
1209 Karen DeYoung, How the US. Came to Abstain on a UN Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements, Washington Post (Dec. 28, 2016).
1210 Michelle Nichols & Lesley Wroughton, US. Intended to Allow Passage of UN Draft Critical of Israel, Reuters (Dec. 21, 2016).
According to Flynn, the Transition Team regarded the vote as a significant issue and wanted to support Israel by opposing the resolution.1211 On December 22, 2016, multiple members of the Transition Team, as well as President-Elect Trump, communicated with foreign government officials to determine their views on the resolution and to rally support to delay the vote or defeat the resolution.1212 Kushner led the effort for the Transition Team; Flynn was responsible for the Russian government.1213 Minutes after an early morning phone call with Kushner on December 22, Flynn called Kislyak.1214 According to Flynn, he informed Kislyak about the vote and the Transition Team’s opposition to the resolution, and requested that Russia vote against or delay the resolution.1215 Later that day, President-Elect Trump spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about the vote.1216 Ultimately, Egypt postponed the vote.1217 On December 23, 2016, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, and Venezuela resubmitted the resolution.1218 Throughout the day, members of the Transition Team continued to talk with foreign leaders about the resolution, with Flynn continuing to lead the outreach with the Russian government through Kislyak.1219 When Flynn again spoke with Kislyak, Kislyak informed Flynn that if the resolution came to a vote, Russia would not vote against it.1220 The resolution later passed 14-0, with the United States abstaining.1221
1218 Somini Sengupta & Rick Gladstone, Rebuffing Israel, U.S. Allows Censure Over Settlements, New York Times (Dec. 23, 2016).
1219 Flynn 11/16/17 302, at 12-14; Kushner 11/1/17 302, at 3; 12/23/16 Email, Flynn to Kushner et al. 1220 Flynn Statement of Offense ¶ 3(g).
1221 Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms, 7853rd Meeting (PM), United Nations Security Council (Dec. 23, 2016).
Am I going to have to listen about how the Jews are going rush to the Republicans in the next elections for the next year only to find out that they voted 94% for Biden instead of the usual 96%?
I think I've seen this movie before with blacks and with hispanics. Maybe Part 3 will be better but I don't think so.
Over 60% of orthodox Jews already vote Republican, but secular Jews who swapped Judaism for Liberalism, they would rather be skinned alive and quartered by Islamofascists, than vote for the GOP.
That is sadly true. They say belief in a higher power is required for our mental health. So, if you drop Christianity, Judiasm, etc, your mind needs to fill the vacuum. That vacuum is liberalism, a false hateful religion, not unlike Islam that has devout muslims cursing the jews and christians 17 times a day in their 5 daily prayers. Jews tend to assimilate so, as they drop their beliefs, they often adopt liberalism. The same for Christians moving away from God. IMHO, liberalism may very well be a biological reaction to godlessness. Would explain a lot!
Yes.
Might have something to do with 70% of them voting D, the party that hates them. You cannot fix stupid.
Self-loathing Jew, writ large
Even though I look like you, think like you and like the same things you like, I sided with those who hate you in order to weaken your power, increase my own and make me safer.
But now my new allies have turned on me because I look like you, think like you and like the same things you like.
Please help me now.
Yep. Quite stupid!
the enemy of my enemy is my friend, until they become my enemy
Doesn't explain lib jews who still insist palestinians are their friends. A better explanation is stupidity.
Democrats see Muslims as major allies in their war against Western Civilization. That's why Democrats are willing to close their eyes to Islamic homophobia, for them LGBT is just another tool to rip the fabric of Western society.
Nah... simpler than that. They simply put them in the oppressed/victim column. They can't think beyond the oppressed/oppressor. These are the same idiots who think blacks cannot be racist.
In that case, why don't Democrats attack China for enslaving Uighur people? Perhaps because China is not part of the West that should be destroyed. Same went for Christian Blacks of South Sudan who were sold as slaves by Arab Muslims for the long time, while western liberals stood by and did nothing.
Great question. Actually, they might. But China has done a good job screaming victimhood. Regarding Christians in Sudan, Egypt, and everywhere Muslims exist, it would appear Christians, like Jews, are in the oppressor category. FYI, that includes all the Christians that fled from what is now Gaza and the West bank!
Funny thing, the dems tried to attract Asians (from India, Korea, China) by claiming them victims but gave up since they could not defend the racism they apply to their kids who are being denied admission to colleges across the US. The asians appear far more immune (smarter) than jews in this regard.
Accuse the Jews of whatever but the rest of us could learn civilization from them. A world after their eradication would not be calm or peaceful.
No one should ever accuse the Jews of being good at politics. Since the first Jewish revolt against the Romans in 66-70, they have proven themselves inept more often than not.
Yes, however Israelis are culturally different. But they too have been infected by Western-style leftism which is a shame.
I think many of them are educated and those people seem to buy the utopian lie.
Agreed. Layers of stupid theories will do it to ya.
Yeah, cause they create such wonderful civilizations...
The Jews in America vote for Democrats at very high percentages. Those same liberal Jews, and Democrats, advocate for the open border policies that have flooded the US and Europe with Jew-hating Middle Eastern-Arab-Muslim-Pro-Palestinian immigrants, and NOW that those same immigrants/illegal aliens are chanting "kill the Jews" in the streets, I'm NOW supposed to care?
Why should I?
They (those same Jews and Democrats) didn't care when we (everyone else) objected to unfettered immigration and illegal alien invasions for a whole litany of reasons, especially including un-vetted millions from all those "war torn middle eastern countries"...
But NOW that those same people are making the Jews feel uncomfortable, and the Democrats embarrassed, I'm supposed to care about their feelings?
Looks like just-deserts to me.'
Perhaps "their" suffering and embarrassment, will open some eyes, but if it doesn't, then I say to them "sit down, shut-up, and suffer in silence!", or am I remembering their past message to us incorrectly? For all the years we screamed about illegal aliens, un-fettered and un-vetted immigration, and were called "Islamophobes", "racists", and "xenophobes" for our efforts.... Well, enjoy your imported Jew haters, radical Muslims, pro-Palestinian protestors, terrorists, etc., because you earned every one of them!
They aren't drawing a Star of David on my house!
Have fun!
that was pretty much what I would have said if you hadn't said it first.
It is funny, both laugh wise and peculiar wise, that jewish people always bring up the holocaust as some really bad thing that should never be forgotten or repeated, a poor oppressed people targeted by Big Government, military, force, etc.
Then explain Schumer, a fuckin scumbag cocksucker [hat tip Gordon Gekko] of incalculable evil, in the same league as Soros and Meathead. This pious little jewish man, always hunched over the lectern one moment, the next moment applauding that the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday to get back at you if you say mean things about them. Soros isn't the only one who ran not walked to rat out fellow jews to the Nazis; Schumer rubbed his hands with glee at the prospect of Big Government taking out his political opponent, that is when he wasn't busy protecting democracy by calling out Justices by name for making rulings with which he disagreed; they're going to reap the whirlwind.
Schumer (and the liberal jewish people who vote for him and every other Dem) are Gas Chamber Afficianados; they have no philosophical opposition to gas chambers and genocide as long as they are the ones dropping in the tablets.
What is playing out is what Bongino has said for years, that the Left will eventually cannibalize itself. It was all fine -- as you wrote -- when the common enemy of liberal jews and third world detritus was western civilization and capitalism, but now that some new aggrieved group (especially a brown one!) are urging worse than mean tweets to be visited upon jewish people.... liberal jews are on the menu, kind of like how conservatives and GOP were on the menu when jewish people were leading the charge of open borders and tolerance.
So yeah, I have a hard time mustering any sympathy. And beyond that, this new war is a bunch of bullshit just like Ukraine is a bunch of bullshit; I am not sure what the levers are behind the Hamas offensive, but as Wyattaustere on insta wrote about the Ukraine conflict, 'the deep state is willing to start WWIII in order to hide its criminality in Ukraine.'
We're being played, so go ahead and start hurling nukes; better to be vaporized than to live in the WEF Police State they have in store for us.
Goddamned right!
After being "public enemy #1" for years, I'll be damned if I'm going to "clique up" with ANYONE other than me and mine. My only sympathy is with US, everyone else can get fucked! "They" didn't stand-up with me, so they can now suffer in solitude; But they will never enlist my help, or sympathy.
As a jew, it is extremely odd to me too. Such hypocracy. But then, there are the blacks who get shit on by the dems but vote 96% dem. And then there are the 50% of white folks. It appears this lefty BS fools sooooo many people. And we all pay for it. 😓
But you can't really blame them for our own undoing. They helped usher us off the cliff but we were the ones sprinting to jump off it in the first place.
I would argue jews joined us in our own jump off the cliff... wink.
haha
American Jews have used their inordinate wealth, power, influence and media control to open our borders to the numberless hordes of the third world. And now it looks like our demographics have changed so much that's it's blowing back badly on them.
It seems that the root of diaspora Jewry's hatred of white America is that stuffy WASPs wouldn't let them in to their country clubs through the first half of the 20th century. But now they're going to have much, much more to worry about in the "new" America they helped birth. They've helped turn what was once a promised land of peace and opportunity for them and so many others into a literal hellscape where pogroms might be in their future in locales with large concentrations of Muslims.
They might yearn for the good old days of supermajority white America.
Well, as a conservative jew, I do not think you can blame all Jews as a group but I do agree their high rates of adoption of leftist ways is terrible. Likely because (1) they are more represented in academia and (2) more likely to live in cities which trend left. Regarding power, even in the highest ranks they are the minority with some exceptions - as they discovered with the dems not so hidden support for Iran.
In any event, many jews and their fellow academics lack common sense. In academia that includes Whites, Blacks, Arabs, Persians, everyone. On the flip side, the religious jews are mostly conservative. As to jews hating whites, I have not experienced that. In fact jewish stupidity is to "love" too much -- even those who want to kill them. As I said, not a lot of common sense. 🤷♂️
Not all Jews agree on the proper use and abuse of the goyim. Zionists will plug their noses and cozy up to us for the sake of Greater Israel, while their secular cousins will place themselves at risk of harm if only to dilute and demoralize us. The golem shuffle is the most delicate of dances.
No need to cozy up to you Greg. FY.
Thank you for information on the civil liberty crisis gripping here and abroad. It may be helpful that in order to become a U.S. Congress person, the person actually takes and passes a U.S. civics class, (or two…)have to pass the constitution test, and be required to take refresher classes. Mike Johnson is correct (2006 essay) in aligning with our founding fathers—who based many decisions on God-thought principles. When persons start “going after” religion or spirituality, the ignorant’s ignorance really shines through. Worse-our governmental hallowed halls are used to diss the US. Unconstitutional.
Perfect.
Always on point.
You can't help stupid. The Jewish vote is locked to Democrats who love to play their constituents off one another. The Jews let themselves get slaughtered in WWII and did not fight back in the initial confrontation. American Jews will follow suit and be slaughtered without a fight. Israel is full of Jews who know what oppression yields, DEATH. The Democratic Party is still the party of Jim Crow, they just use their segregation tactics in a different form and have locked up the Black vote. Jews will be no different.
Liberal Jews consider Israel an embarrassment. As long as Likud, the orthodox parties, and other conservative parties rule Israel, the Left in America will consider the Jewish State to be a failed experiment that should be dissolved in a sea of Islamic people. That appears to be the Left's preferred method for destroying their enemies. In Israel, the desired path for the Left is for the Israeli Left to rule a sea of inferior people using their illegal control of the Supreme Court and bureaucracies. Democracy has failed in their eyes. Socialist rule is their only constant goal. All other goals are transitory and subservient to that primary goal.
Why worry about Michael Podhorzer?
He is nothing but old school Bolshevik pestilence and, as such, devoid of any Judeo-Christian morals or character.
Repeat after me: Anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.
Repeat after me: Anti-Zionism = Anti-Westernism. The very same left-wingers who oppose Zionism, tend to hate Western Civilization as well.
Pretty sad when a man like James Michael ("Mike") Johnson - a Constitutional lawyer is trashed daily in the news. The United States of America is sinking quickly. Why are the Jews being attacked? Some think it's jealousy. Some think it's part of a Divine plan to bring them back into Godliness. They are the chosen of God. Chosen to be the people from which the Messiah was predicted to be delivered. Not that they were any more loved than any others - "God so loved the world." But they have a role to play in world history - they weren't chosen by merit. In fact, God seems to be extremely tough on them. 40 years wandering in the wilderness with Moses, then the attack of the serpents, attacked by many tribes, enslaved by Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks, Romans - can't forget what happened in Nazi Germany either. Yet they still survive. Their traditions survive. Back in the land that was promised to them. II Chronicles 7:14 says - "If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land."
A discussion of Israeli settlements in Palestine can be found in the "Mueller Report" from the Russia investigation:
Report On The Investigation Into Russian Interference In The 2016 Presidential Election
Volume I of II
B. Post-Election and Transition-Period Contacts .......................................................... 144
7. Contacts With and Through Michael T. Flynn ................................................... 167
a. United Nations Vote on Israeli Settlements ................................................... 167
a. United Nations Vote on Israeli Settlements
On December 21, 2016, Egypt submitted a resolution to the United Nations Security Council calling on Israel to cease settlement activities in Palestinian territory. 1208 The Security Council, which includes Russia, was scheduled to vote on the resolution the following day. 1209 There was speculation in the media that the Obama Administration would not oppose the resolution. 1210
1208 Karen DeYoung, How the US. Came to Abstain on a UN Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements, Washington Post (Dec. 28, 2016).
1209 Karen DeYoung, How the US. Came to Abstain on a UN Resolution Condemning Israeli Settlements, Washington Post (Dec. 28, 2016).
1210 Michelle Nichols & Lesley Wroughton, US. Intended to Allow Passage of UN Draft Critical of Israel, Reuters (Dec. 21, 2016).
According to Flynn, the Transition Team regarded the vote as a significant issue and wanted to support Israel by opposing the resolution.1211 On December 22, 2016, multiple members of the Transition Team, as well as President-Elect Trump, communicated with foreign government officials to determine their views on the resolution and to rally support to delay the vote or defeat the resolution.1212 Kushner led the effort for the Transition Team; Flynn was responsible for the Russian government.1213 Minutes after an early morning phone call with Kushner on December 22, Flynn called Kislyak.1214 According to Flynn, he informed Kislyak about the vote and the Transition Team’s opposition to the resolution, and requested that Russia vote against or delay the resolution.1215 Later that day, President-Elect Trump spoke with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi about the vote.1216 Ultimately, Egypt postponed the vote.1217 On December 23, 2016, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, and Venezuela resubmitted the resolution.1218 Throughout the day, members of the Transition Team continued to talk with foreign leaders about the resolution, with Flynn continuing to lead the outreach with the Russian government through Kislyak.1219 When Flynn again spoke with Kislyak, Kislyak informed Flynn that if the resolution came to a vote, Russia would not vote against it.1220 The resolution later passed 14-0, with the United States abstaining.1221
1217 U.N. Vote on Israeli Settlement Postponed, “Potentially Indefinitely”, Reuters (Dec. 22, 2016).
1218 Somini Sengupta & Rick Gladstone, Rebuffing Israel, U.S. Allows Censure Over Settlements, New York Times (Dec. 23, 2016).
1219 Flynn 11/16/17 302, at 12-14; Kushner 11/1/17 302, at 3; 12/23/16 Email, Flynn to Kushner et al. 1220 Flynn Statement of Offense ¶ 3(g).
1221 Israel’s Settlements Have No Legal Validity, Constitute Flagrant Violation of International Law, Security Council Reaffirms, 7853rd Meeting (PM), United Nations Security Council (Dec. 23, 2016).
Pages 167,168