Most news outlets who covered this vote are treating the failure of the United Nations to condemn the terrorist group Hamas rather neutrally, with a few taking Hamas’ side. The NY Times’ Michael Schwirtz and the person who wrote the headline decide to put it on Nikki Haley
In Blow to Haley, U.N. Rejects Measure Condemning Hamas
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday rejected a resolution proposed by the United States to condemn the Islamic militant group Hamas for violence against Israel. The rejection was a blow to the American ambassador, Nikki R. Haley, who had positioned the measure as a capstone of her tenure.
In remarks before the vote, Ms. Haley characterized the resolution as an opportunity for the 193 member states of the General Assembly to put themselves on the side of “truth and balance.â€
Though the body has voted many times to condemn Israel, never once has it passed a resolution critical of Hamas, an organization Ms. Haley described as one of the “most obvious and grotesque cases of terrorism in the world.â€
“Today could be a historic day at the United Nations or it could be just another ordinary day,†said Ms. Haley, who announced in October that she would be resigning, perhaps by year’s end.
Hamas militants have fired hundreds of rockets into Israel, often hitting civilian areas. They also have employed a new kind of weapon: kites armed with incendiary devices, sometimes painted with Nazi symbols, that have burned Israeli farmland.
The vote was 87 in favor, 58 nations voted for Hamas, and 32 abstained. This required a 2/3rds majority. And this is being painted as a Bad Thing for Nikki Haley, rather than a bad thing for the United Nations, which just saw 58 nations stand up for a terrorist organization. And don’t forget the abstentions, because most of these same nation always vote to condemn Israel, the nation and people who are the recipients of terror attacks from groups just like Hamas.
In fact, this is a win for Haley, who just exposed the United Nations as basically a body that will support terrorist organizations. But, for the NY Times, Haley works for Trump, so, She Must Be Blamed.
