To the editor:
It is outrageous that President Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday, Dec. 23, made the final decision to abstain from voting on a United Nations Security Council vote that demands that Israel halt construction in the West Bank and in eastern Jerusalem.
What? Their vote to abstain is a “no” vote. Obama and Kerry have lined up with the 14 “no” votes in the UN council and commonly refer to the area in the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem as Palestinian territories.
Wrong — Someone needs to give this group a history lesson. In 1988, Jordan officially renounced claims to that territory. Furthermore, the Palestinians have never had a state in either the West Bank or in eastern Jerusalem. Consequently, the Palestinians are not the authority there.
“This is a back stabbing of Israel by our POTUS and government never seen before,” a quote from Alan Dershowitz, a famous and highly respected Democrat who services as attorney, scholar, author and Harvard Law professor emeritus. He is right, and we need to understand this issue for what it really is.
Some of us have been saying for years that our country should stop funding the United Nations with taxpayer dollars and give them the boot. Now, we have the profound impetus to do so. It is high time for our Congress to vote to stop UN funding and ask this group to go elsewhere to set up shop.
It is also critical for us to remember how the Lord God refers to Israel in Zechariah 2:8 — The apple of His eye.
We are reminded in the Old Testament that nations who bless Israel will be blessed and those who curse Israel will be cursed. That may be narrow-minded thinking but it will stand longer than any king, dictator, president or secretary will stand. Isaiah 40:8 says so.
PASTOR TERRY BROWN, MANESS MEMORIAL CHURCH, CABOOL