The UN General Assembly, that most anti-Israel and anti-American of bodies this side of the OIC (oh, wait—the OIC is part of the UN), put forward the now-annual resolution to end the US embargo on Cuba, passed the resolution 185-3, with two abstentions.
Guess who one of the three nations standing by America was?
WASHINGTON – Israel was one of only two countries who stood by the United States on Wednesday at a United Nations General Assembly vote to lift the American trade embargo on Cuba.
The vote in the 192-member world body was 185 to 3, with 2 abstentions. The US, Israel and Palau voted “no” while Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained.
[…] “We proudly voted with the US, at a time where most of the world showed solidarity with Cuba,” said Israel’s Deputy UN Ambassador Daniel Carmon, “the decision was made by a solid majority, which is similar to the automatic majority against us in Palestinian decisions.”
“When the vote was over, applause and shouts were heard, which is unacceptable in the UN,” he added.
Wednesday’s approval of the resolution was the 17th straight year that the General Assembly called for the embargo against Cuba to be repealed “as soon as possible.”
“We expect that the new president will change the policy toward Cuba,” Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque told the Associated Press in an interview following the vote.
Yeah, don’t hold your breath on that. If Obama wins, he won’t give up the Cuban vote. He’ll want Florida for his next term.