november 10, 2016 un members pass nine measures targeting israel 




while americans were voting in an election watched around the world tuesday, at the u.n. in new york it was business as usual, as a key general assembly body passed nine draft resolutions condemning israel. 




in most of those votes at the general assembly<u+2019>s fourth committee, the united states and canada joined israel and a small handful of others in rejecting the resolutions. the lopsided vote counts were 86-7, 158-6, 159-1, 156-6, 156-6, 155-6, 156-6, 151-7 and 153-1. 




one of two resolutions which israel stood alone in opposing was sponsored by syria<u+2019>s assad regime, and demanded that israel relinquish its control of the <u+201c>occupied syrian golan<u+201d> <u+2013> a reference to the golan heights, the strategic ridge which israel captured from syria during the 1967 six day war and formally annexed in 1981.
un members pass nine measures targeting israel
kaitlyn stegall