Why the Trump administration is right about the U.N.

President Trump's administration has cut back on the disproportionate American share of funding the United Nations as a result, some say, of the U.N. condemnation of the U.S. decision to move it's embassy to Jerusalem.  The cutbacks are really more about wasteful spending.  The recriminations for the recent anti-American and anti-Israel vote are likely still to come.

Nevertheless, the Trump administration is right about the bias at the U.N. Here's why (watch the embedded video at the link if it does not load properly here).

Breaking: Ambassador Nikki Haley crushes UN after atrocious vote

The UN today voted to condemn the U.S. for it's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital.

If you can't win in the court of public opinion...blow something up?

President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. He won the election, he represents America in terms of foreign affairs. Some people just cannot handle those facts.  Their solution? Kill people (or try to kill people);

(CNN) An explosion Monday morning at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in Manhattan is, in the words of Police Commissioner James O'Neill, a "terror-related incident."

The explosion happened on a walkway below ground near 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue. The suspect, Akayed Ullah, and three other people were injured.

...Recent Israeli actions in Gaza compelled Ullah to carry out the attack, a law enforcement source said. The suspect was upset, in his words, with the "incursion into Gaza," the source said, but did not elaborate on what incursion he may have been alluding to. Israel launched airstrikes this weekend against what it said were Hamas targets in Gaza after several rockets were fired out of Gaza towards Israel. This came amid widespread protests over President Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Terrorism to promote peace.  If that's all you have got, you have no argument, and you are losing.  Clearly you do not support a peace process either if your solution to a position you do not like, is to respond with violence.

Violence and terrorism have always been the response of groups like Hezbollah, and the PLO and ISIS and even domestic terrorists. This is why they do not deserve a seat at the table because they are talking peace while acting and supporting violence.  Peace cannot ever be had when it is achieved entirely at the expense of one side's well-being.  If you can't compromise, you cannot negotiate peace in good faith.  Period.

However, while there will undoubtedly be violent responses to Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital, this isn't exactly one of those situations. Notice that CNN throws president Trump's move to recognize Jerusalem into the mix? The connection at this point, is spurious at best and deliberately misleading at worst. The rest of the CNN story regarding motivation, is clearly about Israel and Gaza. CNN is still agenda-molding their stories to suit their own narrative.

Oh Jerusalem

The media is once again apoplectic over something president Trump has done.  He's declared that the United States recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. That's something previous presidents have promised but not delivered.  Yet the media claim this upends the peace process.

They are referring  to same peace process that has seen no lasting peace in the region really since 1947. How this supposedly derails it when it's been off the rails since forever, isn't clear to me.

They are referring to the change as 'radical' even though it pales in comparison to president Obama's recognition  and attempt to normalize relations with the brutal, communist, dictatorial regime in Cuba.  A change which garnered if anything, praise in the mainstream media.

Israel has always treated Jerusalem as its capital.  Many in the Middle East view Israel as the enemy and used the peace process as a way to stymie anything to do with the nation's interest.  This changes nothing other than letting Israel know that America stands beside its ally.  Pretending to be a neutral peace broker was always a farce.  No country is truly neutral. Yes Switzerland, I'm looking at you.

Democrats' Flip Flops Fly?

Democrats change their platform on God and Jerusalem, and then change it back at the behest of Dear Leader while the arena is filled with boos.

Needled by Mitt Romney and other Republicans, Democrats hurriedly rewrote their convention platform Wednesday to add a mention of God and declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel after President Barack Obama intervened to order the changes.

The embarrassing reversal was compounded by chaos and uncertainty on the convention floor, requiring three votes before a ruling that the amendments had been approved. Many in the audience booed the decision.

The episode exposed tensions on Israel within the party, put Democrats on the defensive and created a public relations spectacle as Obama arrived in the convention city to claim his party's nomination for a second term.

My two cents - this was all an Obama play for the middle.  They changed the party platform and Obama and team didn't know about it?  That's hard to believe.  Not only do i not believe that, I bet team Obama asked them to do it so that he could demand they put God back in.

Think of the timing of the sudden Obama intervention and reversal of the party platform.  It's on the same day as Clinton speaks to fire up the center-left wing of the party.  The Democrats need more of the voters from the middle if they want to fend off a Romney slow roll towards the presidency. I think Obama ordered the change so he could look distant from the far-left wing of the Democrat party.  He's a moderate by comparison.

The booing in the hall?  Maybe they ordered that too.  If they didn't, the optics are terrible.  If they did, the optics may be just what Obama wanted.  Will it work? It might make a small difference.  This time around a small difference could be a big difference.

It sounds cynical, but with this bunch, I think that's the right frame of mind to view events.