Israel's Netanyahu calls U.N. 'residence of lies' earlier than Jerusalem vote

Israel's Netanyahu calls U.N. 'residence of lies' earlier than Jerusalem vote

JERUSALEM  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the United Nations as a “residence of lies” beforehand of a vote on Thursday on a draft decision calling on the United States to withdraw its popularity of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

“The State of Israel definitely rejects this vote, even before (the decision‘s) approval,” Netanyahu stated in a speech at a clinic determination inside the port city of Ashdod.

The 193-member U.N. General Assembly will preserve an extraordinary

emergency special session on Thursday at the request of Arab

and Muslim nations to vote on the draft resolution, which america vetoed on Monday inside the 15-member U.N. Security Council.

Generating outrage from Palestinians and the Arab and Muslim global, and concern amongst Washington’s Western allies, President Donald Trump all of sudden reversed a long time of U.S. Coverage on Dec. 6 when he recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital.

Palestinians have protested daily inside the occupied West Bank and within the Gaza Strip on account that Trump’s announcement, throwing stones at security forces and burning tires. Gaza militants have additionally launched sporadic rocket fireplace.

Eight Palestinians had been killed with the aid of Israeli gunfire in the course of the demonstrations and dozens wounded, Palestinian fitness officers said. Two militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza after a rocket assault.

Trump threatened on Wednesday to cut off financial aid to nations that vote in choose of the U.N. Draft resolution, and his ambassador to the sector body, Nikki Haley said the United States “will be taking names”.

Netanyahu, in his speech, thanked Trump and Haley for “their courageous and uncompromising stance”. He repeated his prediction that different nations would in the end follow Washington’s lead in pledging to transport their embassies from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

“The mindset closer to Israel of many nations, on all continents, outdoor the partitions of the United Nations, is converting and could in the long run permeate into the U.N. - the house of lies,” he stated.

Most nations regard the fame of Jerusalem as a be counted to be settled in an eventual Israeli-Palestinian peace settlement, although that method is now stalled.

Israel considers Jerusalem its everlasting and indivisible capital and wants all embassies based there. Palestinians want the capital of an independent Palestinian nation to be inside the town’s jap quarter, which Israel captured within the 1967 Middle East War and annexed in a pass by no means recognized across the world.