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Kasz216 on 16 November 2012
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fordy said:
Kasz216 said:


Or it's just a matter of paying attention to UN votes and knowing about about the Nonaligned Movement (NAM).  Which is specifically a voting block created to counterbalance the US and vote against basically everything they are for.

 

Though yeah.  Why wouldn't 2% be enough? (a 2% over other highly interested parties anyway). You can't begin to deal with the US until you get elected.

It's not like Europe is calling for vast UN sanctions on Israel or anything, or even denouncing statements in most cases.   Just mild displeasure here or there.  With the biggest noise "coincdentally" coming from the nations with the biggest muslim populations/voting blocks.


Hell, comments now are argueably more pro israel then they were 3 weeks ago. 


Once again, you're stating that the NAM does not have an opinion of it's own, and once again, insulting said states. Believe it or not, the world does NOT revolve around the US. States DO think for themselves, and not one that I know makes a decision based on "Well, how is the US voting?"

2% isn't exactly a powerful amount, especially if a counterbalance pro-western movement turned out to vote, and I seriously doubt many would go for election on the promise of "changing the foreign policy".

All your showing is that you don't pay attention to the politcs of the UN.  Your personal views are irrelevent when the US is just going to do what it wants anyway.  Therefore nations angry about this tend to vote overwhelmingly against anything the US supports no matter what it is... right down to the US deciding to chip in for a better thread count for the napkins in the UN Cafeteria.

Let alone work against a State that see's wide US support.

Were the area divided from the US.  It would just be anothe Nagomo-Karrabagh.

The only people who will really care that much will be those already in the region.

If the US were to withdraw  support and start calls for boycotts, suddenly South America would greatly change it's tune... and Russian or China would likely offer military aid.   Suddenly countries in Africa with Muslim rebels would support Israel.