Tuesday, December 27, 2016

Old Rival Bashes Brooklyn Congressman for ‘Going Against Obama’ Over U.N. Israel Vote


Brooklyn Assemblyman Charles Barron spent Christmas Eve slamming the man who trounced him in a 2012 race for the House: Congressman Hakeem Jeffries, who had asserted in a television interview that the United States should have vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an end to Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank.

On Friday, the 15-member Council adopted the resolution which states that the establishment of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 have “no legal validity” and are a “major obstacle” to a two-state solution by a vote of 14 in favor and a single abstention: the United States, which in the past has unilaterally blocked such measures. Jeffries, a black Democrat with a large Jewish constituency, , described this a betrayal of a key ally by the Obama administration—provoking a blistering approach from Barron, a former member of the Black Panther Party who has criticized Israel and praised Hamas.

The radical state lawmaker linked the congressman’s stance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President-elect Donald Trump

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Source: Observer (via The Empire Report)

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