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The United Nations has voted – overwhelmingly – to reject the US’ recognition of Jerusalem as capital of Israel. Of the 193 member-states, 21 did not attend the session, 128 states to approve the rejection of the US’ decision and declaration that no members should recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, 35 nations abstained, and just nine voted against the Resolution. The nine who voted against were Israel, the US; Guatemala and Honduras (both of whose governments are being

The US government has threatened to cut aid to states which vote against it tomorrow at the UN General Assembly. As noted here previously, the Assembly has been called for an emergency meeting because the US has – against international law – declared Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and then vetoed a Resolution voted for by every single other member of the UN Security Council which aimed to prevent Jerusalem being declared Israel’s capital while the state is illegally-occupying

Israel and the US have announced that they will leave UNESCO, the United Nations’ cultural protection body, with the latter citing ‘anti-Israeli bias’. UNESCO has been extremely critical of Israel’s policy in the lands it has seized beyond the boundaries agreed on the state’s formation in 1948, and earlier this year declared Hebron a ‘Palestinian World Heritage Site’. The latter declaration upset Israel both because (as it pointed out) Hebron also has a long Jewish history (i