Ted Cruz Calls For US To Quit UN Human Rights Council After Vote Condemning Israel

[DonViejo]

Source: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES

July 4, 2015
Mark Hanrahan

Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz called Friday for the U.S. to withdraw from the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), after the body voted to condemn Israel's conduct during the 2014 war in Gaza.

The U.S. was the only country to vote against the resolution put before the council Friday, with 41 voting in favor, and five countries abstaining. The resolution condemned Israel's targeting of innocent civilians during the conflict, and also called for an end to the impunity of Israeli officials responsible for alleged war crimes.

In a statement posted on his website, Cruz said that the single U.S. vote against the censure was a “meaningless gesture.”

“It is time to stop ceding moral authority to the UNHRC and tell the truth about this hopelessly biased and anti-Semitic institution. … The United States should stop legitimizing the UNHRC with our membership and withdraw now,” he added.

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[Sunlei]

1. Ted Cruz would not have even been here today without the crucial mediatory role of the UN.

[roguevalley]

17. I call upon Ted Cruz to quit the human race after his comment on the United Nations. The

foreigner.

[timdog44]

23. Hard to quit

something you never were a part of

[mpcamb]

22. Pander, Ted, pander.

[CanonRay]

2. Getting out of the UN has been a John Birch Societety meme for generations.

and now we have actually elected idiots who believe this.

[MBS]

4. " " " " "

Ted Cruz is seriously disturbed. His craziness and his ambition, combined with his twisted pseudo-intelligence, make for a dangerous brew.

[CanonRay]

5. I consider him the most dangerous politician by far

He is a barely concealed Christian Domionist, with an actual chance to be the GOP nominee.

[MBS]

11. I agree!

I'd tried to keep myself from saying so directly myself , in part because it scares me so much to think about it, but, yeah, he, and his (shudder) potential to be the GOP nominee, pose a real danger to our country (not to mention the world).
He's already doing enough damage as Senator (the latest absurdity about having an elected Supreme Court -- this from a Harvard Law School graduate?????)
He is one twisted dude. Smart (in a way) and articulate, but pathologically ambitious, intellectually dishonest and deeply twisted. The worst combination.

Also, his resemblance to Joseph McCarthy is strong enough to make me wonder about reincarnation.

[panfluteman]

16. Really! The Reincarnation Bit is Spooky, Isn't It?

The resemblance is downright chilling. Now - I believe that senator McCarthy had a serious alcohol problem. Is Ted Cruz, despite his sickeningly self righteous, "holier than thou" Christian fundamentalist front, really a closet alcoholic?

FYI - I happen to believe in reincarnation. It makes a lot of sense.

[imthevicar]

20. Now he has thrown in his lot with

Christian Zionist! People who are so arrogant to think they can force the hand of God!

[HooptieWagon]

3. Leaving the UNHRC I somewhat agree with.

No longer have to make excuses for Israel....cut them loose to deal with their own blowback. Plus, our own HR record is not exactly stellar...

[L0oniX]

6. If anything the UN Human Rights Council should kick the US out.

[hack89]

7. Just make being a secular democracy a requirement for membership

That would make the UNHRC relevant again.

[lark]

8. I call for Ted Cruz to resign

For being a traitor to the country and deliberately hurting it by pushing an expensive, hurtful shutdown of the government, in an effort to make it so that working poor can't have health care. Despicable!

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

9. "Shut the fuck up, Teddy."

[sulphurdunn]

10. “We are troubled that this current resolution focuses exclusively on alleged Israeli violations...

False equivalence maybe? As for Cruz, that nutjob is sort of the Tail Gunner Joe McCarthy of the day and has been channeling the former disgraced senator so long he looks like him.

[totodeinhere]

12. Of course Cruz is a maniac and that is to be expected from him. But my question is how

damning is it that out of all of those countries ours is the only one to vote against the resolution?

[Scuba]

24. Yep. Obama should be taking some heat for that.

[allan01]

14. humbug

[question everything]

15. When you realize who the members of this council are

http://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/HRC/Pages/CurrentMembers.aspx

There are very few that can be a model of human rights..

[Jack Rabbit]

18. Jack Rabbit calls on Ted Cruz to formally quit from the human race

He thinks he better than the rest of us, so he's not that comfortable being one of us, anyway,

[olddots]

19. this guy is my polar opposite

Its not that I love myself but I really hate this turd maggot .

[PatrynXX]

21. telling others jews they are anti semitic is dumb